I am the first person in a line when it comes to getting a good deal, but I refused to be a statistics.  I dread Black-Friday after Thanksgiving sale.  People just lose their senses – waiting in lines for a day (or for hours), pushing and shoving each other, breaking down store doors because people are too anxious to get into the store, and even killing people. 

When did we become an animal?  There’s absolutely no sense of logic, rationality, safety and security. 
I think it’s important to remember that these stores are not doing YOU a favor by lowering prices – they are not giving you the TV for a free for goodness sake.  You still have to pay for it, and they are selling it for a lower cost to make their balance sheet appealing to their stakeholders. 

I understand people have little less money this year for Christmas, but if you break the numbers down you are not coming up on top.  Think about it … the hours you have to stand in line you are taking away time with your family and/or work.  I know for certain few of my friends take a day off at work and hires babysitter to go shopping on Black-Friday.  Unless you are saving over $1,000 it’s just not worth it – in my opinion anyway. 

Just this Friday a Wal-Mart worker in NY dies after being trampled by anxious customers, and at least four other people were injured (including an eight-month pregnant woman).  To make matters worse, two men pulled out guns and shot each other to death in California Toys R Us Store.

Has our life become that cheap?  So cheap that it’s okay to kill (accident or not) a person for $10 saving?  Do we no longer sympathize and empathize with the victims or their families? 

We are supposed to be living in a civilized society, but we are no better than animals on Black-Fridays.  At least we can justify the animal’s misbehaviors – they don’t know any better or it’s just their instinct or they were threatened or they are just an animal.  But, how about us?

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