New Things that I know:

1. Propane light + Ooooouvre's 20 year old sleeping bag = fire hazard.
2. Sleeping at Best buy is fun but trying. Laptops for $249 is worth the wait. More later.
3. It takes a line 30 minutes to go from the sporting goods section at Target around past the food, the Electronics, the A/V, and the Stationary to get to the registers.
4. My kids are the best. Better than all of yours (just kididng).
5. Dora and Swiper make one hell of a team.

So I called the man my children affectionately call "The Giant" and we decided to camp out at Best Buy turkey day night. We had plenty of food and movies and blankets, but a 11 hour wait will kill you. We got there at 6 pm and were around 30th in line. We got everything we wanted, but just damn, 11 hours early and 30th?

We learned quite a bit about human nature that night. Twice in the night the cops were called to keep people from breaking in line. At midnight a group of young teenagers got at the front claiming they were just going to return a DVD- BS. At 3:30 two guys get up front claiming they have a 4 am interview- Super BS. Any time the line shifted (tents put away or whatever) people would try to break. We would call Mall Cop (his name was Buddha- really) and he would kick them out. At 5 when the doors opened there were probably 1500 people in line. It stretched past 5 stores- including Target and Party City. Some people stood in the parking lot and tried to rush the door in front of 1480 of those people. It amazes little old liberal me that people could be so selfish. Especially when the whole line was in the store within 45 minutes. Whatever.

That morning I swore I would never do it again, now I think I might. It was pretty fun. Next year I'm bringing a tent and a kerosene heater.

w0rd,
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