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Congrats!! Wear them proudly!

Awesome! I'm so glad I have this site to come too. My family thinks I'm nuts since I'm already looking at your site...at least I can come here & find some other nuts doing the same things.

My first year of Black Friday shopping was back in 1999. My mother & I wanted to purchase scooters for my kids, my 2 nieces & my brother (he is 16 years younger than I so my mother, my sister & I were raising families at the same time). My mother had RH arthritis & was crippled up really bad so there was no way I was allowing her to go into Walmart on Black Friday and try to get anything! So I went all by myself to get 5 scooters...they were a major hot item at that time. So I went into Walmart around midnight I scoped the store & peeped under the black tarps & found the pile of scooters...I stood there beside of the pile with my cart for the next 6 hours with more & more people surrounding me. When they pulled the black tarp off I grabed my 5 scooters & threw them into my cart but the crowd that was surrounding me was pushing me into the pile so they could get them also & the pile was falling ontop of me. Some older gentleman saw me & pulled me out of the crowd & pulled my cart out also. I was in shock at how these people were acting & was so glad I had not brought my mother out in that mess - she would have diffinitely gotten hurt pretty bad. I went to the front to go through the register I turned to look at something & some woman came over eye balling my cart -I think she was considering trying to take one - cause when I turned around & looked at her she said ohh is this your cart?...Duh I'm standing here in line to pay for them. I paid for them & rushed to my car...afraid I was going to be jumped in the parking lot by someone who didn't get one. Even though that was was my first experience that hasn't detered me from going every year. My family thinks I'm crazy but I continue to go every year. Another year I went looking to get one of the tickle me Elmo's for my son at Walmart & I went to JCPennys first to get something for my mom (I wanted to make sure she got what she wanted since she isn't able to shop herself & get the deals) & by the time I got to Walmart...there was 1 left on the shelf & two ladies were fighting over who got there first to get it & I was not about to get involved in that situation...I just stood & watched...after a few punches were thrown security steped in & ushered Elmo & the 2 ladies to the front... not sure who won Elmo but needless to say my son didn't get a tickle me Elmo that year. Michelle

I would much rather go alone so you don't have to wait on someone else. Last years drama of BF shopping with my sister was enough. Although we took 2 separate vehicles and used our 2-way radios it was a mess. Wal-Mart associates were using 2-way radios and were interfering with our signals so I did a lot of running around trying to find her when I should have been shopping. This year a new friend of mine has invited herself to go shopping with me...I don't know how to politely tell her I want to go alone. Any suggestions?