My Black Friday Story

[femalesliealot]

Here is my Black Friday story.

 

A little preface…This was my girlfriend’s and my first Black Friday experience together. We’re from York, Pennsylvania. Although this was our first year, I’m pretty sure we pulled it off like pros. Our target was Wal-Mart. Our main objective was for me to get the cheap laptop for her and for us to get the many Dora the Explorer items for our two and a half year old daughter. I left the apartment early and arrived at Wal-Mart at 12:45 AM to do a little scouting. After I walked around and scouted everything out on the covered skids I bought myself a $7.48 folding chair and some strawberry water, and then parked myself back in the already forming line in electronics for the laptop. I was 7th in line. My girlfriend showed up around 2:45 AM and I directed her, via walkie talkies, to the Dora items that were allowed to be loaded up in the cart before 5AM. Turns out that the walkie talkies were the best idea ever. As I continued to sit in the growing line (nearly 50 people by 3:00) my girlfriend parked next the Dora TV/DVD combo along with the DVD recorder skid. With her cart already half full of the bargains we were set. Once 5:00 hit, the first 20 people in the laptop line, of over 125, got tickets and were sent to layaway to purchase the laptops for security reasons. This was a great idea on Wal-Mart's part to keep the ‘laptop winners’ separate from the ‘laptop losers.’ So I got the laptop and my girlfriend was able to snatch the Dora TV/DVD and DVD recorder and make it out alive. At this time we were still across the store from each other but still directed each other to the items that weren’t gotten yet via the walkie talkies. So I grabbed the $55 sewing machine as she grabbed the other items not yet gotten by that time. The best part was that by 5:15 AM we met up at the checkout and walked right into register without a line. We were out of the store at 5:20 AM. In the end we only forgot 1 item that was on our Wal-Mart Black Friday list, the Dora storage bin unit for $30 but we were OK with that considering we didn’t think we were going to be able to get half of items that were on our list.

 

I think what made it such a success for us were the walkie talkies, we were able to direct each other to the items and let each other know what the other already had gotten. For this being our first year, I think we pulled it off like pros.

 

Black Friday Veterans, how do you feel we did?

[andreadawn45]

Sounds like a great day! My day kind of went the same. Feels great doesn't it!!! I'm not an amature, (this was my first BB BF though!) but if it weren't for this forum, I wouldn't have gotten to my store early enough. I originally planned on 3am, after reading decided 12am, then at 8:30pm changed mind to 10pm!

It's wonderful to be able to tell everyone that your day pretty much went a smoothly as it did!

[ebony0421]

I think you and your girlfriend did hella good, first bf or not. I think you can hang with the best of them and hold your own. Those walkie-talkies do come in handy. We used our Nextels and they worked like a charm. I'm glad you had a good experience.:)