Shopping on Thanksgiving Rant

It seems like it gets worse and worse every year. Commercialization of everything. Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving are the worst. In the eyes for retailers Easter is just like Christmas, except all the toys come in baskets and Santa is replaced with an Easter Bunny. Anything actually having to do with Easter....oh say a Cross...there was a small section at a local big box store. Black Friday used to be a 5 AM deal, go and get a new Pioneer stereo for the husband, or a Transformers or a Furby for the kids. In the last few years or so Black Friday got pushed back to 4:00 AM, then 3:00 AM, a couple years ago it was midnight and it was only a matter of time. Now many stores are opening on Thanksgiving, before the turkey is even carved. Its worse this year. The CEO's, big wigs, and Wall Street investors are cozy at home WITH THEIR FAMILIES, if somebody can prove me otherwise, that they actually did any work in their office, I'll be shocked. Its greed pure greed. Corporations pulling store managers, the teenagers, college aged kids, and the elderly part-time workers that work the floor away from their families on a special day of the year to reflect back on all that one is to be thankful for. Again, I'm sure the higher ups are all at home enjoying the profits and sleeping well. For those that barely make ends meet it's longer hours, a heavier workload, and a measly extra $4-$6 an hour to be pulled away from loved ones. That ain't worth crap nowadays, a few gallons of gas MAYBE.

Those that go out shopping in spite all of this don't care about anyone but themselves. How many times every year do we hear about people getting KILLED in a doorway at some store because they tripped or got shoved down and the crowd TRAMPLED THEM. How many FIGHTS break out? Then there are those that go out and have the damn nerve to say, "They should be at home" when in fact the person out shopping saying that is one of the reasons the workers aren't at home.

Would you believe all of this chaos is over CHRISTMAS SHOPPING?! People KILLED and in FIGHTS for CHRISTMAS!

Some have argued that police officers, EMT's, and nurses, all work 24/7/365. Thats true. But those are life or death type jobs (for which they have my thanks and respect for all that they do). Those are essential and they knew they were going to work holidays when they took the job. I've never heard of anyone dying because they didn't make big profits or didn't get to buy that new TV or computer. There is a difference and hearing people compare these two jobs makes me SICK!

I won't buy a thing on Thanksgiving. Not even gas. I'll buy everything I need AHEAD of time like we USED TO DO in this country.

I'll end my little rant with a quote from a classic Christmas movie..."Keep the change ya filthy animal". :D