On Black Friday (and Rudeness, too)

Some people's favorite day is quickly approaching. No, it's not Thanksgiving Day or Christmas. Instead, it's Black Friday.

"Black Friday" was instituted in 1966 (according to Wikipedia) and is the term used to describe "the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. More recently, merchants and the media have used it...to refer to the beginning of the period in which retailers go from being in the red (i.e., posting a loss on the books) to being in the black (i.e., turning a profit)."

My one and only experience with Black Friday found me standing in a line outside Walmart at 3:30 a.m. with probably about 500 others. (I live in a town of just under 5,000.)

That's when it happened.

At 5 a.m. the store opened and the 4,500 people hiding behind the cars in the parking lot rushed the door in front of me (the whole rest of the town).

No. Not really. Just trying to make a point.

The truth is there were a number of folks that popped up and cut in line (from behind bushes, trees, fire hydrants, rocks and lampposts).

And what is it about rudeness (especially during the holidays) that people don't get?

And why do people do things that are just plain rude, but you have someone act that same way (be rude to them) and they'll read you the riot act?