This was the first Black Friday in NYC or away from SF, so my game planning was a lot different. Derrick and Michael were thousands of miles away so there wasn't going to be company camping out in line.
Also this year most if not all major spots opened up at midnight of Thanksgiving or just a few hours after we finished Thanksgiving dinner.
If this is going to be the new trend then it could end the tradition of sleeping outside in line.
So Christie, my mom, and I enjoyed a great (just a little bit smaller) version of Thanksgiving here at home.
I then got my paper and started the final steps of preparing my game plan for the night.
One other change is that NYC doesn't have many of the big box stores, in Manhattan... Best Buy, K Mart, and Macy's are really the only places close enough get to either walking or by subway.
My mom is a bigger shopper than I am, so she was also pretty excited to get out there as well. I dropped her off at Macy's as I made my way down to Best Buy.
Best Buy was crazy... I mean the line was around the block and NYC blocks are very large. So I did what anyone else would do and gave up and went to a bar.
I got home around 3, but my mom wasn't home when I got home. I called and called but no answer. Decided to give her a little more time and eventually after calling every 30 minutes, Christie, Chester, and I decided to go on a rescue exhibition. We were ready to go out and look for her when my mom walked through the door with a lot of bags in hand and a smile on her face. She out-shopped me on Black Friday... Not many people have ever done that, but I guess I know where my genes come from.
