NoJoMo Day 26: Black Friday

So today was not bad. I’m tired as heck of course. It could be worse. I was there about 11 hours today.

Finally got to bed between 12-1am. Got up at 4am. Was at work and clocked on at 4:30am. We opened at 5am. It was busy but not crazy busy. No stampedes, no crimes. It was busy in that we were pretty steady all day at least at checkout. I didn’t really go looking around the store. I couldn’t while I was on the clock and I wasn’t going to after I got off because I only had my uniform and the last thing I wanted was to be helping customers off the clock after an 11 hour shift. Sorry, but no.

So no, I didn’t do any shopping on Black Friday. I know, I could have gotten some amazing deals but I just wasn’t up for it. I came home, got some food, put in a load of laundry and crashed for about 4 hours. I could sleep more but I’m trying to be awake to spend some time with Isaac but he’s still at work. Yeah, an hour and a half after we’ve closed and he’s still there. The fun part of Black Friday, cleaning up and resetting the store for the rest of the world. I will be so glad when I no longer work retail on Black Friday. Not that I will be one of those crazy people in line Thursday but I’m sure I could come up with a few stores where it would be worth it to go and be there at 5am. I mean, we had DVDs on sale for $4 and $5 dollars that are normally $20-$25. I really should have bought some but that’s okay. I’ll live. It was only 2-3 I saw that I wanted and we might not have had any left by the time I got off and again, not braving the gauntlet in uniform.

I might brave Walmart here in a bit. I’m craving chocolate milk or something. I don’t know what I’m craving.