My most memorable Black Friday experience was 2007. I have two children (at the time ages 8 and 15) and we were getting ready to be relocated to Oregon (from OK) in Jan. So as part of the bribe (for them not to be sad about the move), we promised them each a laptop. We saw the laptops (Toshiba 15in) on sale for $299 at Best Buy. The plan was to go to Oklahoma City that morning to have Thanksgiving with my inlaws and then when we got back to town (Owasso, OK) we would eat and then head out to Best Buy. We really didn't expect long lines because we lived in a quaint suburb and we just thought that everyone would get up at about 3 or 4 am and stand in line. Well, we got back to town at 6pm on Thanksgiving evening and I told my husband to just drive by Best Buy and check it out. Low and behold the lines were forming. We drove quickly to my mom's house, dropped off the kids, grabbed the blankets and chairs (didn't get dinner) and headed to Best Buy. My husband, who has been sick maybe twice in 38 years, was deathly ill. I felt so bad as he sat there coughing and running a fever, but there was no way that I was going through this ordeal alone. We sat there freezing (it had to be 30 degrees) for 9 hours before they began passing out the tickets for the on sale items. We had developed a repore' with the gentleman in line right before us and knew that he was also wanting a laptop. We held our breath as the employee moved down the line (we were 50th in line and they only had 35 laptop tickets), the employee gets too us and we receive the last laptop ticket. Just as I started to scream "yippee", I realized that I had 2 kids and could not just buy one. The man in line in front of us was so generous. He gave us his laptop ticket and I probably would have kissed him if my poor sick husband wasn't standing beside me. It was a success, we were able to purchase the laptops (that we would have never been able to afford without this sale) and had two happy kids. It was however a Black Friday forever embedded in my memory.
