Black Friday - 0300 style....

Kohls was again leading the Black Friday stores with an opening time of 0300. I had posted on FB about making a list of Black Friday shopping and Diane wanted to go. I set my alarm for 0200, got up, dressed, teeth brushed and out the door! It look me about 10 minutes to get to Diane!

Diane had never been up Black Friday shopping so early! I warned her what White Oak was going to look like. We pulled in near Best Buy and the parking lots were full and Best Buy and Kohls were the only stores opening at 0300 and 0400 but there was hardly anywhere to park. By the time we got parked and headed to Kohls it was 0313~
As we got in the store the lines for both sets of registers were already all the way around the store...we just laughed! There wasn't anything 'important' that I was going to run over someone for, however, we did pick up somethings and then by the time we got all the way around the store, we figured we better get in line! Here we are in line, waiting!

About 15 minutes later we made it to the front of the line! We felt like winners! As you can see the lady behind us is half asleep! And the woman behind her is probably going 'who is holding up this line?'. ha ha...Its Black Friday people....get a grip!

We loaded the car and headed to my Target. After pulling out onto Highway 70 I remembered we just left White Oak where there WAS a Target. U-turn on Hwy 70 and back to Target. Again, parking lot full. They weren't opening until 0400 so we still had a few minutes. As we walked up Target had buggies lined up to allow entrance into the store through a line instead of everyone rushing the doors! We thought we would just wait until everyone got in and then they would move the buggies.....we soon realized that they weren't planning on moving any.

Everyone around us was kind of thinking the same thing....until we all figured out that they wanted ALL of us to go through the same line!....

I then realized that every buggy was zip-tied together at the front and back of the buggy! There were probably over 100 buggies! I just laughed!

As we walked in and saw every check-out lane with a buggy and a television....I just laughed. Im sure half these people can't pay the electric bill, however, all 5 of their kids had just bought a $300 television!

The electronics department was crazy! I did pick up some digital picture frames! But then we headed back up towards the front to check-out. Then it began! As we were passing the cosmetics section, we noticed they had roped off toward the registers and we were now doing the official Disney lines. We weaved through the cosmetics, laundry detergent and even dog food before getting to the front. We never saw so many WTF looks. As we would weave, people that were walking up to get in line, just looked at all of us like we were crazy...there was an almost musical unison of 100 people going through all these aisles. It was hilarious. People would look, look again....then the WTF look would arise! But once we got to the front of the line we just picked whatever lane. It actually moved fairly well. However, as I would give Target the award for organization this year....I would like to file a complaint as I never saw a booth for a Fast Pass! ha ha

As we were documenting this monumentous journey, the Target lady just laughed! Hell, its 0430 and there are more people shopping that at 1300! Have fun!

We left there and headed to Cary Towne Center! JC Penney here we come! Again, parking lot packed! And again, no shopping cart! I guess Ill have to carry everything! I did ok for awhile, then I couldn't hold anymore. Diane went shopping for shoes (imagine that) and when she came back I told her I had to check out as I couldn't hold anything else!

We actually took everything out to the car and then headed to the rest of the mall. Surprisingly, all the stores were open! We headed for Chik-fil-a for breakfast, as neither one of us had eaten since lunch yesterday!

We headed to Belk, Macy's, Kirklands, pretty much where-ever we wanted!

Of course, everyone likes fur! I think it was from roadkill from I-40 but I didn't want to tell Diane! Even the lady that kept circling the display, even though we had just gotten there! I think if we had stayed another 60 seconds she may have attacked us!

We looked and looked for Santa.....theres a big darn tree, but no Santa. He is obviously looking for my 2011 Audi TT in black at a discount! But we had to get a picture by the big tree. Again, we stopped a complete stranger!

If theres a sports store...Im definately stopping! We laughed so hard at these shirts! Of course, I bought some! They didn't have everything in Carolina Blue though, and I couldn't buy anything with that 'other' blue! Ill have to check back!

I definately wanted this shirt, but nothing in that beautiful blue! But I definately am digging that wording!

Now we headed to Crossroads! Old Navy here we come! Nothing special, just looking! I guess the shirt is made for me! Maybe there is hope out there! If only Chris knew! Maybe I should buy the shirt and send it to him? ha ha

Again, we stopped the Old Navy lady that Im sure thought we were drinking. This early, we should have. ha ha.

Michaels was the next stop! And this is the first store that we got a shopping cart! Yeah us! Again, a stranger took the picture! And she was laughing!

Whoopie pies? I had never heard of them. Diane had. So I bought them. I will try them and see how they taste! Then Ill delve into my own concoction!

I dropped Diane off around 1030 and then headed home. Unfortunately, I still had room in the back of the car! But, not too bad for 7 hours of shopping.

Little did I know that after getting home....30 minutes later...Round II would begin!