Black Friday, what an awful way to describe one of the most enjoyable days of the year.  That is if you like to shop till you drop.  I know the retailers have a reason for this name, I just have never liked it much.

     After stuffing ourselves with turkey and pumpkin pie, we will get up at the crack of dawn to shop.  This year some stores are opening at midnight Thanksgiving Day to get a head start on the crazy shoppers.  If the deals are good enough, people will stand in line outside in the cold for hours; some even spend the night.    There is NO special that good to me.  I don’t like being cold and I can’t stand in long lines.

     We used to go shopping every year on Black Friday with our best friends, Myron and Lena.  Some times we would even stay over night together so we could get an early start.  I have pictures to prove how bad we all look in the morning.  We would shop all morning, then have lunch, and shop some more.

     By mid afternoon, our feet needed a break, so we would slip in to see the latest holiday movie.  Then more shopping.  We often would hit several different towns during the day.  By evening we were completely exhausted so we would gather at one of our houses and have Thanksgiving left overs for dinner.

    By this time we could do nothing more, except drag our tired bones home and to bed.  But, oh, the fun we had.  We would laugh and sing Christmas songs.  We would act like silly kids, because we knew no one was looking on that day.  Everyone was looking for that best deal of the day, so they didn’t care about four old fogies acting like kids.

     A few years ago, Myron went to be with the Lord.  That ended our Black Friday adventures.  Now mostly we stay home and avoid the crowds.  But, we sure had a lot of fun during those years and made a lot of wonderful memories.