Two years ago we (my mom, two aunts and myself) were standing outside of Kohls waiting for a 4:00 opening, and it was freezing out (being in Michigan). Everyone was being very gracious in line, and saving spots for people as they would run to their cars to warm up a little. It was probably around 3:00 a.m. when we heard this group of people yelling "Hot Chocolate and Donuts". I thought the crowd was going crazy and wising for hot chocolate and donuts. It wasn't long when this cart rolled up to the front of the line - and sure enough a church group was GIVING away hot chocolate and donut holes to us crazy people sitting in the cold. Come to find out, this was a fairly large church - and they were covering every main entrance to the TWO malls in our town. We didn't have to pay for it, they just wanted to keep us warm. It was a drastic comparison to our first experience of that weekend where outside a discount store at midnight we were trampled by people that didn't stand in line. I remember thinking earlier that it didn't pay to get to a store an hour early to get ran over by people that walked in from their cars five minutes before the doors opened. The incident at Kohls made it so much nicer, and more memoriable.
