Black Friday Stories - Long Lines, Fights, Fun, etc.

[campos202]

Just wanted to start a thread to pull together everyone's random BF stories of long lines, fights, coffee, and lack of sleep.

The craziest BF I had was in 2006 at Hagerstown, MD prime outlets in 2006. This was the first year the outlets had done a BF deal and they were opening all the stores at midnight. The store we hit up was the L.L. Bean, because the first 100 people in the store got at $10 gift card that you could use anytime, there or online (saved it for a later slickdeal because the store deals sucked). Anyhow, we got there at 11:30PM and the parking lot was maybe 10% full. I thought what a bust but around 12:30AM the place was jam packed with people trying to get parking. We left at 2AM and interstate 70 and every single back road leading to the outlets was jammed with cars. I-70 was backed up for 4 miles toward Baltimore, freaking nuts! I'm glad I new the back entrance otherwise we would have been stuck for hours trying to get out of the parking lot.

[Charisma]

My first BF, we went to the Galleria in Birmingham, AL. We didn't get there in time for the stores opening, but we got there early enough in the day to have ourselves a good time all day. The most exciting sight I saw was in the food court. So many lines everywhere. There were lines for the restrooms snaking in with the lines for the food vendors. Plus, every table was taken. Every chair was taken. Every wide area that could be used for a table was taken... and that includes the trash cans. I kid you not. This was several years ago and it's one of the most vivid BF memories I'll ever have.

[pigeo000]

I just wanted to Hear everyones Black friday stories. Good and bad, Fights and not fights :) Just share everything.

I just have one, the Girly wanted to wait in line for the 200 dollar laptop at BB two years ago. I waited for an hour and finally said at around midnight im going home to sleep. So i Slept showed up at about 430 5 and jumped in line with her to get in for the store opening. Unfortunetly she didnt get the 200 dollar laptop but I got a 100 spindle of dvd-rs for 5 bucks. Same year went to COMP USA for the mightnight thanksgiving sale. Just a TON of people smarter to do theirs early.

Lets hear everyone elses

[Josh123]

I think it was two Black Fridays ago I was in Lubbock, TX with my GF and her family and I told her I was going to go to BB to try and get the 32" Westinghouse. I told her I was going to go up there at 10 pm and she ended up talking me into waiting till midnight saying it would be early enough. Well I woke up and nudged her to see if she was still going with me and of course she wanted to sleep instead. So I get there and there is a huge line wrapped around BB so I go and sit by myself with my laptop and watch movies. Needless to say I got lucky and got my tv. It was nice telling her that she was wrong about not many people would be there at midnight. :)

[slyspy98j]

2005: My husband was deploying to Iraq and I wanted to get a laptop for him to take on his trip. I got there at 4 am (definitely not early enough for the doorbuster laptop). Left Best Buy and went to Office Depot to try for a laptop...and it was the best experience ever! I didnt get it as cheap as I wanted it...but I got to custom build, adding memory and whatnot...needless to say it was a great Christmas for him and the laptop did great in the "sandbox"...

From then on I decided going to the nightmare stores (BB, CC, Walmart, etc) was not worth it and now I only do online BF shopping with the occasional trip to Home Depot!

[kendrab1223]

Last year:

I saw online the night before that Toys R Us had movies for $4,$5, or $10 depending on the original price of the movie. I was already planning on getting my son some Elmo's World movies for Christmas so I thought this was going to be great because they'd be $4 each. WELL, even though it wasn't stated in the ad that it was only certain titles, that's how it was supposed to be. I had 10 DVD's in my cart and wasn't leaving until I got them for $40 (we don't have tax here. yay!). After about 15 min of arguing, I got them for the price I should because I told them I wasn't leaving until then. That was the ONLY reason I went in there and I wasn't leaving empty handed!
I left there. went to walmart and target and was home by 7am (I left out of my house around 4:45 to be to TRU for 5). The walmart and target closest to me were a breeze with no lines or waiting or anything, but the walmart 3 miles away was swamped (it's right next to TRU so I saw the line lol).
I'm hoping to only need to go to walmart this year and be done in record time so we'll see what's being offered!

[nirvanalx]

I had never participated in Black Friday until two Black Fridays ago. I went to Best Buy around 1 am thinking I would be able to get a laptop. Needless to say when I got in line I was behind the store.

This last Black Friday I was a little more prepared and had my younger brother and his friends with me. We had a tent and a propane heater. We played cards and had a DVD player with us which made the time go by so much faster. One of their friends showed up around midnight and had been drinking. About an hour later he threw up in the tent. So we had a pretty entertaining night!

If I go this year it will be more for the entertainment rather than the deals considering how great this site is.

[pigeo000]

thats pretty funny about your friend

[smart84]

I had never participated in Black Friday until two Black Fridays ago. I went to Best Buy around 1 am thinking I would be able to get a laptop. Needless to say when I got in line I was behind the store.

This last Black Friday I was a little more prepared and had my younger brother and his friends with me. We had a tent and a propane heater. We played cards and had a DVD player with us which made the time go by so much faster. One of their friends showed up around midnight and had been drinking. About an hour later he threw up in the tent. So we had a pretty entertaining night!

If I go this year it will be more for the entertainment rather than the deals considering how great this site is.

wowww that sounds like u had one of your memorable BF night:bounce: :bounce:

[zhelder]

Two stories. Last year, I tried to get the Navigon 2100 at Staples. They also had a TomTom on sale for $129. I tried to go to a store that I thought would be out of the way, and it was still very crowded. The red shirts come out and say, "The navigation systems are to your right." So we go in, and everyone mobs the nav systems and the other bargains. Everything's a mess and not in order. I'm screaming, "Do you have the 2100?" and they're not answering me. I'm about to leave in a rage, when a guy next to me says, "Here, you need this?" and he hands me a 2100. I thank him and run for my life.

And a near Black Friday story: A couple of weeks before BF, Value City usually has a "private" 20% off almost everything sale that every person on the planet seems to find out about. Now the crowds at most Value City stores roll pretty hard. I shopped there because I got great deals. (I once got a great suit there for $30.) But it was often a harrowing experience, especially during these 20% sales.

About 10 years ago, I went to one of these sales, and waited on one of the 50 person lines. A few customers ahead of me, a woman was arguing with the cashier about the price of the item. When the cashier wasn't able to change the price and had to call for help (which didn't come, of course) the customer reached over and smacked the cashier in the face! So then it was real pandemonium. The cops were called, and it was wild.

Also I remember going to Sears when PS2 was released back in late Nov. 2000 and there was a near riot in the store because Sears had apparently advertised that they had the system and they didn't. (There were massive PS2 shortages everywhere for several months.)

BF, for me, though, is pretty much over. The deals have gotten lousier, and the crowds have gotten much larger and more aggressive over the past few years. You have a shot at getting something at a less popular store (Radio Shack was pretty quiet last year and had some decent deals) but if you want to get something at Best Buy or Circuit City, you better camp out for the night. (5 years ago, an hour was enough to get almost anything you wanted. Those days are over.) It's not worth the hassle for me anymore.

[h1qual1ty]

I saw something happen like 6 years ago on Black Friday at Circuit CIty. I was pretty high up in line, like number 30 or something. The doors finally open and this guy runs in and trips over a box and gets stampeeded over as everyone runs to get the doorbusters. I saw the guy trip and then get trampled all over including some people who tripped over him and poured hot coffee all over him (they were giving out free coffee and donuts). I never found out if the guy was alright because I was so angry I missed the hard drive deal they had that year.

[nirvanalx]

wowww that sounds like u had one of your memorable BF night:bounce: :bounce:
It was interesting. I don't think we will invite him back this year!

[electrophonic]

one time on friday i left

[RalphMalph]

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.


Wait, I think that may be a story off the hit movie Jaws and in fact not a Black Friday story that personaly happened to me.

Can't be sure, so i'll leave it.

[RalphMalph]

2005: My husband was deploying to Iraq and I wanted to get a laptop for him to take on his trip. I got there at 4 am (definitely not early enough for the doorbuster laptop). Left Best Buy and went to Office Depot to try for a laptop...and it was the best experience ever! I didnt get it as cheap as I wanted it...but I got to custom build, adding memory and whatnot...needless to say it was a great Christmas for him and the laptop did great in the "sandbox"...

From then on I decided going to the nightmare stores (BB, CC, Walmart, etc) was not worth it and now I only do online BF shopping with the occasional trip to Home Depot!

Most interesting story I have ever read.

Mehhh, I went to get a cheap XXXX. They didn't have it, but I ended up getting another one, blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[BenJeremy]

Well, I have a tale of a search for a Wii on Black Friday - My Mom was intent on scoring a Wii for her Grandson (My youngest child, age 7 at the time) last year.

Meijers had announced they'd have them for sale, so her plan was to hit the store at 2am and wait for them to actually go on sale at 5am. At Thanksgiving Dinner, I also noticed that the FYE ad featured pictures of Wii systems prominently, though no mention of actually selling the system. I mentioned this to her in passing, and on the way home, I stopped into a Meijers, and found that at 10pm, there was already a long line of Wii-seekers for an expected supply of 10-20 units. I called up my Mom regarding this, but still, undaunted, she went out anyway to see for herself.

Finding several hundred people lined up at a different store when she got there in the morning, she abandoned that idea and went to the mall, remembering what I said about FYE. Entering the mall at 4am through the JC Penney store, she proceeded to the FYE store, grabbed a stool from an aisle vendor booth and waited. Across the mall aisle, people lined up at the GameStop. 5am rolls around... a GameStop manager comes out and tells the large crowd that they only have 11 units, and basically 'tags' the first 11 in line. The rest leave disappointed.

Now, at this point, my Mom is wondering if she should say anything to these people, and decides that she'd rather avoid any potential fights in line or falsely getting their hopes up, if the FYE didn't actuakly have them.

She's still the only person waiting there.

5:15 rolls around, and the FYE manager comes to enter the store through the front entrance. My Mom asks if they have any Wiis.... "Oh yeah, we have 20 of them"

6am, FYE opens. My Mom is the only person waiting there.

She gets the Wii and leaves. No fights, no fuss, no muss. Exiting the store, she mentions to the shoppers milling through the mal that they have Wiis available at FYE.



Damn, if I would have realized what it was going to be the situation, I would have told her to buy 5 or 6 of them, and eBayed the extra units. Ah well.

A couple of observations:

I suspect all stores got an allotment of 20 units, but Meijers and GameStop both had far ess units available at sale time. I really hate this practice, but perhaps it's only fair to offer some units up to the employees that have to be stuck in the store working on BF morning.

Also, my Mom was rather amused that people in the GameStop line looked at her like she was crazy for sitting in front of FYE. Definitely a last laugh situation.

So remember: hard to find items can sometimes be gotten with a little strategy and "outside the box" thinking.

[desert_starr_57]

Last year my Husband, Brother, and I went out to Walmart. We got there around 3am. We were about 20 back in line. The closer it got to opening the worse it got. There was a cop there. He did NOTHING. We actually saw some guy and girl park in a handicap spot and when the door opened they put up their sticker and ran to the store. Everyone gathered beside the door and jumped line to get in. I was so mad. They rushed and got in too and hurt and trampled people who were there for hours. I saw one person get slammed into a pole and another get hit with the door frame. The cop did nothing. They were looking for Wiis. The store didn't get any. Serves them right!

The day before at K-mart. People tried to do the same thing (in fact I saw some of the same people at Walmart the next day) They had gotten Wiis in (which was advertised) and they came out and handed people tickets really early. Well, when the store opened those same people rushed the door. I later saw them back in the electronics screaming about how they wanted a wii and how they waited all that time. The manager told them they handed out the tickets to people in line an hour or so prior. Served them right too!

I know at one store they had gotten in some video game something. This woman threw them all in her cart and was charging 30.00 each to get them out. One guy took one out..ran to the front and paid for it. They actually went after him because he took something out of the woman's cart and at Walmart you can't do that. She didn't get into any trouble at all. I couldn't believe that one.

I didn't see it but my friend saw little old ladies fight each other for something.

[Tiger23]

Every black friday is interesting. I see the typical every year: someone peeing in the trees/bushes, fights because someone took the last of a product and supposedly they were there first, people trying to bum rush to the front of the line when the stores open. Its always great. Can't wait to see it all again this year!

[emsman1]

Last year I went to CC to get an LCD that was part of the "door buster" sale. My parents and I arrived at 3:00am only to find a huge line. We took our place in line waiting for the store to open. Right before they opened, an employee came down the line counting people and stop right after me. I was the last person allowed in the during the first rush. Once I made it in the store, I waited in the "TV" line to get the TV while my Dad walked around looking through the DVD bins. After being in line for a while and not moving, my Dad walks over to me and says, "What was the TV you wanted?" I told him what it was and he takes off and walks over to this pallet in the middle of the DVD section and holds up the TV and says, "Is it this one?". Sure enough, there in the middle of the store was a pallet of the TVs. I got out of line, picked up my TV, and was out the door in minutes.

[LongTimeLurker7]

Two years ago my son, his friend, and I got to CC around 5pm to find only 4 people in line. BB was already to the end of the store. After freezing and being awake for the entire night, around 4:30am the religious caravan comes around. A preacher gets out and starts comparing our waiting in line with getting into Heaven. 2 guys in front of me are pissed, we already had our vouchers in hand and were just waiting to get into the store. They tell him to "walk on" and when he wouldn't, they started getting more colorful in their words. Finally one of them is in the preacher's face, the preacher isn't backing down at all, and the guy from the line says "Go ahead, Blink Again!" We all burst out laughing as the preacher walked away.

Later that same morning, around 10am, which we are still in CC at this point, a lady that was further down in line and missed getting a laptop voucher by 4 or 5 people, tried to have my son arrested (who was 15 at the time) because he had my voucher while I was getting some movies and other things they had on sale. The manager of the store had snatched my voucher out of his pocket because the lady had told him he was not in line. I walked up to the manager and snatched back out of his shirt pocket, and threatened him for touching my son. I am normally a very shy, laid back person, but after a night of cold and no sleep, you don't come between me and my BF deal!

BF is usually an interesting time!

[slyspy98j]

Another unreal story that I am so glad I read.

I went to get a tv and got it, blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

How do you not bore your own self?

Ok...I wont bash you (you dont contribute a darn thing to SD) but do you really think your comments are necessary?

[fyu]

I remember lining up for a nav system, and laptop deal a few years ago. I got in on the vouchers and was just hoping they open the store a few minutes early, because it was freezing.
Then I get a call from my friend, and he says the deals are mediocre at best. I didn't want to waste hours of waiting or let the jackasses behind me get the deals. So once the doors opened I picked up my stuff and left. After talking to my friend about the deals, I agreed that they were medicore at best, so a few hours after the store opened. I was back to return the stuff.
The CS was very surprised to see BF deals getting returned. I told her that I was just in it for the crowds, and have no use for the nav system or the laptop.

I am so tempted to do that this year. But with a bunch of friends. Take all the laptops and then just return them a few hours later.


Also a long time ago, when hard drives were only pushing 100gigs and there were no vouchers, I was at best buy picking up a hard drive deal. I was also picking it up for a bunch of friends too. So I had a dozen hard drives in my cart while browsing the washing machine section when the manager and a bunch of customers walk up to me and demand to know what I was doing with the hard drvies. I demanded why they needed to know, and they say the rebates are only 1 per household. I replied that I didn't know of the rebates, but I needed that many drives for my massive pr0n collection.
The manager ignores this, and says I needed to either buy them or give them up, so I push my cart to the checkout and bought all the drives on 1 receipt. I went back to browsing the appliances section, except now with a receipt.
Needless to say, I love pissing people off on BF.

[LongTimeLurker7]

I remember lining up for a nav system, and laptop deal a few years ago. I got in on the vouchers and was just hoping they open the store a few minutes early, because it was freezing.
Then I get a call from my friend, and he says the deals are mediocre at best. I didn't want to waste hours of waiting or let the jackasses behind me get the deals. So once the doors opened I picked up my stuff and left. After talking to my friend about the deals, I agreed that they were medicore at best, so a few hours after the store opened. I was back to return the stuff.
The CS was very surprised to see BF deals getting returned. I told her that I was just in it for the crowds, and have no use for the nav system or the laptop.

I am so tempted to do that this year. But with a bunch of friends. Take all the laptops and then just return them a few hours later.


Also a long time ago, when hard drives were only pushing 100gigs and there were no vouchers, I was at best buy picking up a hard drive deal. I was also picking it up for a bunch of friends too. So I had a dozen hard drives in my cart while browsing the washing machine section when the manager and a bunch of customers walk up to me and demand to know what I was doing with the hard drvies. I demanded why they needed to know, and they say the rebates are only 1 per household. I replied that I didn't know of the rebates, but I needed that many drives for my massive pr0n collection.
The manager ignores this, and says I needed to either buy them or give them up, so I push my cart to the checkout and bought all the drives on 1 receipt. I went back to browsing the appliances section, except now with a receipt.
Needless to say, I love pissing people off on BF.

Why get the stuff and return it? You really want to piss people off, just get the vouchers and sell them to people further down the line, or clueless people running up to the store at 4am thinking they are going to get that $250 laptop (or whatever). I wouldn't do this, but I have seen other people doing it. If you are doing it for "sport", you might as well make some money while you do it.

[VSClax]

Last year a few buddies and I get to circuit city at around 1...quite late as the line was already going down the side of the store. We get all of our chairs blankets etc out and my friend goes to park the car and join us in a minute. A few minutes later we get a phone call screaming for us to get to the parking lot, so we run over there to see that someone trying to pull out of a parking spot hit 3 different parked cars, including ours. Needless to say, there was a colorful exchange. Thankfully there were some police on hand (BB and CC are across the street from each other, they knew something would happen at one of them). We managed to calm down after that and at least had something to talk about for the rest of the night while waiting!

[nbateman]

This cracks me up..

My mom walks into Kohl's, gets her items, sees the line is snaking around the store and walks back to Customer Service. She then asks "can i have a price check on this item?". They say sure and she then asks if she can get rung up back there since she's already there, and they say sure. She walks past the line with her bag and receipt and heads out the door.

[SpeedLimit]

I remember a BF when the store brought strippers to perform in front of the store while we waited. They also handed out coffee :cold:

[chaegele]

BF 2001, I took my DD and niece to the movies and lunch at the mall. Some grouchy old lady snatched a chair right out from under my niece as she was sitting down with her tray. Said she needed it more than Rachel did. Luckily, we saved the food from falling all over the floor. I decided to let it go in the spirit of the season and not beat her down to get the chair back.

[Scottk]

I remember a BF when the store brought strippers to perform in front of the store while we waited. They also handed out coffee :cold:

Just be glad you weren't lined up in front of Dick's! :D

[BobbaGanoosh]

Back in 2005 I was at Best Buy getting some movies, games, and memory. I was in the PCHO department, when I heard some guy in his 40's or 50's complaining to an employee that they were sold out of a door buster item, it was about 5:15am at this point. The employee said "I'm sorry sir. People began lining up yesterday evening, and we handed out vouchers for the door buster items, and we are sold out."

The old guy would have none of that, and kept complaining "But it's in your ad! I am here now, and want what's in the ad! How can you be sold out of something that's advertised?!?" I could tell the employee was getting frustrated since he had no control over the situation, and having worked three Black Fridays at Best Buy before myself, I could relate. I walked up the old guy and said "What do you want him to do, pull the item out of his ass? You snooze, you lose." He then said something along the lines of "mind your own business, you punk!" to me.

I guess he didn't like that I was pointing out the fact that he was acting like a jackass to an employee who couldn't magically make a product appear.

[KitchenPC]

2007: Waited in line at BB since 7:00 PM Thanksgiving Day... since I wanted to get that $400 Sony Vaio notebook. I was about 30th in line. Waited and waited, but oddly enough the line IN FRONT of me was growing. The whole time I was "WTF". People were bringing their freaking extended families with them or something.

Then at 4 the best buy gal came out and handed out the passes for the computers, and when they reached me they were all out of Vaios. :(

[danieln7]

Well, I have a tale of a search for a Wii on Black Friday - My Mom was intent on scoring a Wii for her Grandson (My youngest child, age 7 at the time) last year.

Meijers had announced they'd have them for sale, so her plan was to hit the store at 2am and wait for them to actually go on sale at 5am. At Thanksgiving Dinner, I also noticed that the FYE ad featured pictures of Wii systems prominently, though no mention of actually selling the system. I mentioned this to her in passing, and on the way home, I stopped into a Meijers, and found that at 10pm, there was already a long line of Wii-seekers for an expected supply of 10-20 units. I called up my Mom regarding this, but still, undaunted, she went out anyway to see for herself.

Finding several hundred people lined up at a different store when she got there in the morning, she abandoned that idea and went to the mall, remembering what I said about FYE. Entering the mall at 4am through the JC Penney store, she proceeded to the FYE store, grabbed a stool from an aisle vendor booth and waited. Across the mall aisle, people lined up at the GameStop. 5am rolls around... a GameStop manager comes out and tells the large crowd that they only have 11 units, and basically 'tags' the first 11 in line. The rest leave disappointed.

Now, at this point, my Mom is wondering if she should say anything to these people, and decides that she'd rather avoid any potential fights in line or falsely getting their hopes up, if the FYE didn't actuakly have them.

She's still the only person waiting there.

5:15 rolls around, and the FYE manager comes to enter the store through the front entrance. My Mom asks if they have any Wiis.... "Oh yeah, we have 20 of them"

6am, FYE opens. My Mom is the only person waiting there.

She gets the Wii and leaves. No fights, no fuss, no muss. Exiting the store, she mentions to the shoppers milling through the mal that they have Wiis available at FYE.



Damn, if I would have realized what it was going to be the situation, I would have told her to buy 5 or 6 of them, and eBayed the extra units. Ah well.

A couple of observations:

I suspect all stores got an allotment of 20 units, but Meijers and GameStop both had far ess units available at sale time. I really hate this practice, but perhaps it's only fair to offer some units up to the employees that have to be stuck in the store working on BF morning.

Also, my Mom was rather amused that people in the GameStop line looked at her like she was crazy for sitting in front of FYE. Definitely a last laugh situation.

So remember: hard to find items can sometimes be gotten with a little strategy and "outside the box" thinking.

Great story, glad she got lucky!

[krazeekid7]

Black Friday 2005 fun in a Philly Walmart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyh3egPw7uY

[fyu]

This cracks me up..

My mom walks into Kohl's, gets her items, sees the line is snaking around the store and walks back to Customer Service. She then asks "can i have a price check on this item?". They say sure and she then asks if she can get rung up back there since she's already there, and they say sure. She walks past the line with her bag and receipt and heads out the door.

I do this all the time. Get rung up in the phone department, photo department, and I even got rung up at the deli.

[mrwhite123]

Last BF, I arrived at Fry's Electronics at 2:30 am in the morning to wait in line with my brothers. We were in the line in the parking lot when we got there, but as soon as people started packing up their tents, we were lined right up at the door. So the store opens and I start to see people bum-rush the door. I tell my brothers to get the stuff that I wanted and proceed to stand outside the main door and tell the people that are trying to cut in line to go stand in line like everyone else who's camped out at the store. If they want to cut in line, they would have to go through me (I'm a big guy). Needless to say, I got a lot of thank-you's from the people that waited in line. It sure as heck made me feel good.

And yeah, I didn't get my motherboard combo or my hard drive! :vomit:

[jbfsu]

... got to BB at 4:00 pm Thurs., thinking we'd be early... there were already 22 people in line that started a line-list. What was really upsetting was a group of 5 people that kept changing shifts.... needless to say by 4:00 a.m that 'group' turned into about 15 people. By midnight the lines wrapped around the store far into the parking lot. Police were called out by 2 am when the crowds got really bad. By 3 am, people were trying to cut left and right, cursing, arguing... it was good we got to know who was up in line with us for the past hours so we recognized strangers and were quick to call on them. People were offering money to cut in line.

Best buy did a horrible, HORRIBLE job with crowd control. It was as if they enjoyed this circus and making the experience as worse as possible. They announced they'd be giving out the vouchers for the limited items (laptops, tvs, cameras, etc)... and would not be using our 'line-list' (which was at that point over 200). Everyone started rushing for the doors to get a voucher when they started passing them out. I saw one guy arrested because he wouldn't get in line (I don't think he understood English when the officers were yelling). I know for a fact that people in the front of the line grabbed every voucher they could AND then turned around and sold them... I know one person sold a VOUCHER for $80 (for the cheaper $200ish laptop)

They started letting us into the store in groups of about 30.... as I was going in a lady grabs my shopping cart that I was already pushing! I let her take it.

[trifenix]

i remember just everyone trying to cut and push through the doors...i dont recommend small people being in the front of the line as i saw a small guy and girl get obliterated by all the fat people. owned.

security didnt do anything and they just laughed at the whole scene. kinda sad imo. then someone starts cursing at me so i curse back...and its like yea meet you outside after i grab my laptop and hdd and get in the long checkout line. lol.

[instep95]

We go to a Best Buy here and next door is a TRU. For several years we take bets on how long it will be before the police show up at TRU. It never fails. The police and at least 1 ambulance arrive right after opening. The worst was the year they were giving away Power Rangers stuff to the first so many in line. It makes for great entertainment while we are in line at BB.

then there was the year I was like 30th in line at BB and a woman thought she was going to push me sideways to get thru the door. Well she was like 5ft tall and about 100lbs. I am somewhat bigger than her. It was like me body checking in a hockey game. She bounced off me and took out a display. People behind me thought it was rather funny. After I found out she was ok I laughed for with them. She was way embarassed to continue shopping.

[onedayatatime]

A few years ago Meijer advertised the Chopper kinds of bicycles for $25. Meijer is open 24 hours so we got there a couple of hours early and got in a very long line next to the bicycle rack. About 5 minutes before the sale was to start they came over the loud speaker and said the line for the bikes was at the service desk and that the first 25 people in line would get them. It was a mad rush to get in line. Well the first person who was in the original line was handicapped and in a scooter so she didn't get to the service desk in time to get the bike and she went insane (I would have as well) and was screaming and demanding the bike. Then a large group of people that were in the front of the original line joined in and Meijer called the police. I left, went to walmart got a bike and price matched it to the meijer ad.

[electrophonic]

one time on friday i felt chills up my neck and down my thumb

[Doodarazumas]

Ok...I wont bash you (you dont contribute a darn thing to SD) but do you really think your comments are necessary?

He's layin down the law.

[susiel2]

Many years ago before ebay widely used internet. We were in a small Texas town for thanksgiving. The family got up early day after and caravan style hit the stores we wanted to go to. Surprisingly enough, we got the bf sales we wanted to get. That was one of the biggest Christmases we ever had .
Up until a few years ago i managed in our area to land all the bf deals i wanted.
But the past 2 years lines started appearing thanksgiving day crowds were over whelming and due to my disability hassles with my chair, it just became not a fun prospect for me.
If the day off occurs for hubby we may end up scoping out a small town near by and try that route again. But days of bf shopping in my area are a thing of the past.
Last year i managed some great generic items on line and shipping went well.
Time will tell if online works this year, but at this point i do miss being able to do what i use to be able to do and just glad to read about the silliness now

[fucdemas]

these stories are amazing.i want to see them all in a movie. in fact i think i might write a script!

keep them coming!

are there any stories of friendship or camaraderie? a meeting of the minds across racial/socioeconomic lines?

[jeepdog]

Black Friday 2005 fun in a Philly Walmart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyh3egPw7uY

After watching that video, all I could think is"Well, we didnt give the day its name". And that is exactly why I avoid Black friday "deals". It isnt worth my time to have to put up with the throngs of unwashed animals that really dont have the money to spend, pushing and fighting their way to some new merchandise.

[samven582]

BF 2007: I arrived at bestbuy around 11:00 am. I was fifth in line. Got everything what I wanted.I even sold a few vouchers! This year I will be going earlier :D

[Pez Pez]

Black Friday brings out all of us from the dead :wave: to all of my fellow vets.

Fred Meyer brings out craziness in the Northwest. They have 50% off all socks and flannel sheets, it brings out the best and worst of us. It also opens earlier than everyone else, so a good starting point. :nod:

[phillio5]

does any one know if employees get to use their discounts if they work at Best buy or circuit city on black friday?

what compensation do they get for working and not being able to buy the stuff on sale?

[dissident]

... got to BB at 4:00 pm Thurs., thinking we'd be early... there were already 22 people in line that started a line-list. What was really upsetting was a group of 5 people that kept changing shifts.... needless to say by 4:00 a.m that 'group' turned into about 15 people. By midnight the lines wrapped around the store far into the parking lot. Police were called out by 2 am when the crowds got really bad. By 3 am, people were trying to cut left and right, cursing, arguing... it was good we got to know who was up in line with us for the past hours so we recognized strangers and were quick to call on them. People were offering money to cut in line.



Things like this are why I don't do best buy, because it would get violent if I saw people in front of me bringing in their extended family at the last minute, so I just stay home, or shop wally-world, where this isn't possible due to employees watching things and the confined spaces (if you have a store that lets you wait inside)

[jeepdog]

BF 2007: I arrived at bestbuy around 11:00 am. I was fifth in line. Got everything what I wanted.I even sold a few vouchers! This year I will be going earlier :D

Wow. Doesny Best Buy usually open earlier than 11:00 am on friday?

[dani82th]

last year at BB, i got there around 6am thanksgiving morning, 12 hours later, 2 friends finally showed up (ha ha ha); around 5am, they started to passed out vouchers, 5:30am, everyone that had a voucher automatic got to go in first (SWEET!), that where the nightmare started

once in the store, everybody inside wondering "what the hell, why are we still waiting; at 6am, the store opened, everybody did a madrush to get everything they wanted( freaking running of the bulls)

everybody that came in earlier got screwed, cause we couldn't leave the line without losing our place; 2 hours later, i'd finally was able to purcahase the $230 toshiba laptop

end of it all, my friends, got the toshiba & sony laptop, the emachine desktop combo, the tomtom navi; and i got to go to work and a $5 cellphone, that i got to lazy to activate

[samven582]

Wow. Doest Best Buy usually oopen earlier than 11:00 am on friday?

I should I have said I got there 11:00 am thanksgiving day

[BobbaGanoosh]

does any one know if employees get to use their discounts if they work at Best buy or circuit city on black friday?

what compensation do they get for working and not being able to buy the stuff on sale?

This is for Best Buy only:

If the item that is on sale is at, or below, store cost, you get no discount. The employee discount is the store's cost + 5%. So, it doesn't matter when you buy something you want if the store's sale is greater than 5% above cost. As for compensation for working Black Friday, you get your normal hourly rate. I only worked the opening shift on Black Friday when I was there, and the manager would bring in doughnuts. If you had to close, well, you get the joy of cleaning a trashed store.

I have to ask, why would management care that you don't get to shop in the morning? They pay you to work.

[ShopperGoneNutz]

This is for Best Buy only:

If the item that is on sale is at, or below, store cost, you get no discount. The employee discount is the store's cost + 5%. So, it doesn't matter when you buy something you want if the store's sale is greater than 5% above cost.


haha last week i was at best buy trying to use a $100 coupon from comcast, but they were saying the deal was expired even though there was no exp date on the coupon itself, so i was arguing nicely with the manager and he said theres no way i can just give you $100 off, we only make 10-15% off of computer sales . . . capitalism at its finest

[TranceAzn]

Last year I got to Best Buy at 8am thanksgiving day and I was number 55 in line. It was crazy. Luckily this Best buy wasn't stupid and they passed out wrist bands at 7pm. We were able to call people out who were trying to cut! I got the sony laptop last year along with some cameras and TVs. This year should be fun.

[GrandMstrBud]

I'm glad they hand out tickets now because it's funny how people will pull up 15 minutes prior to opening thinking they can just but in. Last year was pretty fun at Staples since there were only about 5-6 of us up until 4 am or so. We'd take turns getting coffee or hot coco and we had our seats up at the door and would take turns warming up in our cars. I can't remember where I went to the year before but I've always had fun chatting with people through the night. I don't have anything I want or need this year but I'm going to go just because I like this type of thing. I think last year I got myself the navigon 2100 and a laptop for a friend.

[krazymop]

I decided to go to CC last year. Got what I wanted but holy crap they were disorganized. After being in line for hours, the store is 5-10 minutes from opening and naturally the people who show up late start to hover near the front of the line. I got out of line (I was probably 50th or so) and started to yell at them. Some people back away but most just stayed there. Nobody else on line said a word. The biggest problem was that when CC opened their doors, they didn't have any employees stand outside for crowd control and to prevent cutting. The hovering crowd realized the CC employees were going to stay inside, so they started shoving their way in. It was a nightmare. I'm a big enough guy so I could handle it, but I felt really bad for the women there. CC simply didn't want to deal with it. It's no wonder they have to close 150 stores with managers who simply don't care about their customers.

[superskittles]

last year was my second BF and we figured 3 am at CC was fine... wrong we wound up sitting in the back side of the store with a dumpster 4 feet away. it was cold and raining. anyways they let people inside and made them all pay in 1 freaking checkout. 1 checkout!!!! it was awful so i gave some random items to my mom and she stod there and checked out and I came back from hitting some other stores 3 hours later and she was just finishing paying, well they messed up a price on a creative mp3 player and they said i had to go through the entire line again. so got back in line and one of the guy who was there early had come back and had his vouchers. well i convinced him to give one to me(i was 16 at the time) and I got the best toshiba laptop deal there.

also we were at sams at 7 am for free breakfast(best thing ever) and they had about 45 wiis and we bought 3 and made huge profit. :bounce:

[jazzyrhythms]

i remember just everyone trying to cut and push through the doors...i dont recommend small people being in the front of the line as i saw a small guy and girl get obliterated by all the fat people. owned.

security didnt do anything and they just laughed at the whole scene. kinda sad imo. then someone starts cursing at me so i curse back...and its like yea meet you outside after i grab my laptop and hdd and get in the long checkout line. lol.

Black Friday is probably one of the only days of the year that it's nice to be seriously overweight. It comes in handy when people try to cut or shove in the store. I'm pretty active (being a college student on a large campus --UW) and I weight lift so I can still outrun a lot of people but I'm big enough to shove anyone out of the way who thinks they can get away with cutting.
As for stories..I was at Walmart a few years back and was trying to get a computer. I couldn't get through the huge amount of people in the store standing up so I dropped to the ground and crawled underneath people's legs and carts. Like I said, I'm big enough that being trampled like in that youtube video isn't really a major concern. lol Got the computer too.

[ShopperGoneNutz]

so I dropped to the ground and crawled underneath people's legs and carts.

now thats dedication

[HBK069]

n e kat fights? especially soccer moms going at it?

[fyu]

n e kat fights? especially soccer moms going at it?
If BB was having a sale on trophies, then it'll be fun to watch.

[SlickEnW]

Black Friday is probably one of the only days of the year that it's nice to be seriously overweight. It comes in handy when people try to cut or shove in the store. I'm pretty active (being a college student on a large campus --UW)

UW is small. Anyone who can't get from the marine studies building (brooklyn and 45th) to McCarty in less than five minutes is lame :P

[slampig]

I got punched in the face once over a 160GB Western Digital hard drive that Best Buy had on sale. That pretty much ruined black friday for me from then on. :( I just try to get the deals online now instead (which ultimately led me to SD! :))

[IPABeerLover]

My best memory is one of the first BFs I went to way back when. I was in middle school and went out with older bro and dad to BB and stayed out most the night. We got into the store early enough and all had to split up to grab what we wanted. We ended up with everything(this was around 10 years ago so crowds not so bad) except we were trying to find more of the 100gb HDs (either 100 or 200 forget exactly the year) and I actually found an entire stash of them in a completely different section from where they had supposed to be already cleared out. I grabbed 3 or 4 and handed two to brother and kept two. I jumped in line and an assistant store manager came up and told me I had to hand over the HDs as they weren't supposed to be out. I looked at my bro and he just sat there shaking his head so I just wrapped my arms around the boxes and said no. He ended leaving us alone but looking back I am thinking he had probably stashed them for friends and was kinda annoyed a little kid found it while looking through the back of shelves. I just find it pretty funny.

[jazzyrhythms]

UW is small. Anyone who can't get from the marine studies building (brooklyn and 45th) to McCarty in less than five minutes is lame :P
For those of you who don't live in Seattle, SlickEnW is referring to a .84 mile walk up hill, around buildings, students and people from a bunch of clubs trying to get your attention. :)

[SlickEnW]

For those of you who don't live in Seattle, SlickEnW is referring to a .84 mile walk up hill, around buildings, students and people from a bunch of clubs trying to get your attention. :)

I also forgot to mention the random occurrence of former staff lighting themselves on fire in the middle of campus (http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattle911/archives/152967.asp) (which is directly in the path I described earlier). That might sway your commute as you'll be forced to traverse through the buildings to continue.

[OgreMustCrush]

I failed at getting any decent doorbusters last year at BB, so I headed over to Target for the 37" TV. When I got to the door, the line had pretty much already entered in its entirelty. However, I had an advantage in that I scoped out the store the night before thanksgiving and knew that the TVs were in Men's clothing NOT electronics. I calmly walked to the back and put the first TV off the stack into my cart. I looked to the right and saw the bog that everyone else who wanted one was stuck in, electronics is directly across from toys. Yay for BF intelligence efforts.

[usacamaro]

Getting a good chuckle from some of these. I don’t have a good memory of my past experiences, but would love to see this post resurface.

[usacamaro]

I do remember the black Friday of 2004 I think. It was the year Circuit city and comp usa had the $250 AOL sign up promotion. My Brother and I hit just about every CC and Compusa in Chicagoland….we spent an entire day Saturday on the phone with AOL canceling 20+ accounts. Fun stuff.

[pheenix11]

Most interesting story I have ever read.

Mehhh, I went to get a cheap XXXX. They didn't have it, but I ended up getting another one, blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Asshole much?

[DealMayhem]

About three years ago we were close to the entrance at the Best Buy in Brookfield WI. So we were going to get what we wanted, it was around 4:00AM. One lady came around offering $20 for the space. A girl behind us took her up on the offer. After getting in line she told us that she wanted the $299 laptop. The problem was that the tickets for the laptop had already been handed out. We did not have the courage to tell her that. Needless to say she did not get her laptop.

[ocean_o_curls]

Last year my sister and I went to the midnight sale at the woodburn outlet mall here in oregon. We got there around 10pm and the parking lot was already getting full. When we left at 2am I thought that there was an entire parking section that I just never noticed then I realized that people were parking on the side of I-5 and jumping the fence because the freeway and exit were so backed up with people trying to get into the outlet mall

[coup nazi]

Black Friday 2005 fun in a Philly Walmart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyh3egPw7uY

I wish the lady with the buggy would've run them down too:lmao:

[areneeh]

I saw something happen like 6 years ago on Black Friday at Circuit CIty. I was pretty high up in line, like number 30 or something. The doors finally open and this guy runs in and trips over a box and gets stampeeded over as everyone runs to get the doorbusters. I saw the guy trip and then get trampled all over including some people who tripped over him and poured hot coffee all over him (they were giving out free coffee and donuts). I never found out if the guy was alright because I was so angry I missed the hard drive deal they had that year.


Now THAT was funny (well, let's hope he was okay) :eek: . The people at work probably think I'm crazy (laughing for no reason)! :lmao:

[rockstar1009]

No bf stories, but waiting-in-line-in-November story all the same: Autumn 2006, my scheme of preordering a PS3 at every Gamestop in New Orleans for the sake of flipping on ebay was met with disaster when my car was destroyed in a hit-and-run accident in September, and I had no means to get to ANY Gamestops when the one-day preorder offer went live in October (a real shame, too - I expected to make maybe $100 per console, but plenty of people were making a kilo or two). Come November, I contemplated lining up for one at launch, but upon seeing the lines outside 3 days in advance, gave up. Despite profits being derailed, I still wanted one for myself, so I looked into ebay. Two weeks after launch, while the 60g packs were still going outrageously high, yet the 20g models were hovering just above retail. I bit the bullet and jumped on a unit that came bundled with an equally rare and elusive Tickle-Me-Elmo TMX (an Xmas gift for my nephew) for $600 shipped, a very slick price at the time ($500 PS3 + $40 Elmo = $540 + NOLA's high 9% tax of $45 for the PS3 and $3.60 for the Elmo left me paying only about $20 above retail shipped, with no lines or frustrations). Then the next day I was standing in the Metairie Walmart, and a new batch of PS3s were put on the shelf. Unfortunately they were gone before I could locate a sales rep, otherwise the profit would have paid for the ebay'd PS3.

I also snagged a Wii on launch. I borrowed the company truck for the weekend, and scoped out the scenes- lines were much smaller at the department store retailers (Walmart, Target), but around the buildings at the electronics guys (Worst Buy, Circuit (s)C(h)ity). I parked at Target at 5, got out and stood in line (w/ nice friendly folk too - we all started playing DS wifi games as we stood around) at 7:00, and got my ticket at 7:30. Someone opened earlier, because some n00b pulled up trying to hawk his new Wii for $500 to our small crowd, and we all laughed because everyone who wanted a Wii managed to get a ticket, and he pulled off pissed. I also opened my redcard that morning, getting another 10% off, my timing impressing the CSR.

THAT was a good week to be a gamer. :)

[Arwes]

My first time going to Wal-Mart on BF was with my mom. She was looking at the poinsettias that were on the main aisle in front of the checkouts. Some woman behind me kept slamming her shopping cart into my ankles. I turned around and looked and she kind of rolled her eyes and looked at the ceiling. Bear in mind, there's like 10 feet of open space so it's not like she can't go around. It happened one more time before I turned around and asked what her problem was. She rolled her eyes again, sighed and then went around me. I try not to go to that particular store on BF if I can help it now. They tend to get the wild ones.

[sinvids]

Last year I was at Walmart and had my cart next to the digital camera I was waiting for. Since I had some things in my cart that I was going to price adjust at 5:00 and didn't want anyone to steal out of my cart, I picked up the ugliest Mickey Mouse sweater and threw it on top of my stuff. While I was waiting in line a lady behind me started talking to me and after about 1/2 an hour, I told her about the ugliest shirt I could find. She opens her jacket and sure enough is wearing the same sweater. I was motified.

[Heydude]

I do this all the time. Get rung up in the phone department, photo department, and I even got rung up at the deli.

That's the way to do it. Every year at Shopko, I go to the pharmacy to get rung up, line is usually about 1/3 as long.

[Daniellect]

I have a bad tale and a good tale..

We went one year to walmart for BF.. just to get smaller things and those dvd players for the cars headrest. My son went with us and sat in the cart the entire time (he was about 4/5 then). This psycho lady came running through people, carrying a tv not in the box, I swear she had to have tore off the display and hit my son in the head with it. She didnt stop, or apologize or anything except to pause, see him bleeding and tsked as he just cost her 10 seconds. He was hurt and we wound up spending most of the rest of it at the ER.

Last year I went to toys r us. I wanted to get those pixter things. I saw the last 2 and grabbed them, 10 seconds later I heard a lady say how her son wanted one and she missed it. I felt bad buying two, but I have two kids and needed both. As I walked through the aisles I found one that someone had abandoned. I took it and walked through the entire store, looking at probably 100 people til I found her. I gave it to her and she was SO happy.. I've never been hugged before by a stranger :) I try to be extra nice on that day, hoping to balance out all the ones that are extra mean that day!

[noetic]

I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.

[Dad0408]

I've been a Die-Hard BF Shopper for at least 15 years. I have so many stories, but the most memorable are the following:

11 years ago Black Friday...Best Buy. We camped out starting late Wednesday night, since it was just my wife and I we didn't do anything special for Thanksgiving and my wife really wanted a new computer Well...we were the only ones in line for the first night and needless to say. My son was conceived in a tent outside a Best Buy! That and we got the computer!

Not really a Black Friday story, but a Christmas Story.

I bought a tickle me Elmo for my neice back in 1996 in August before they became a big deal. Right around Christmas time we were in the Denver airport and a child ran up and stole the Elmo from my niece (who was 2 at the time) and ran off with it! When we finally tracked the little boy down his mother offered us $1500 in cash for it, my niece had already played with it for 4 months and was not actually that fond of it anymore. It was dirty, but the lady didn't seem to care. SOLD. I got lucky and found my neice one a few days later at a local Toys R Us for about $20. She's 14 now and she still has it!

I've seen fights over all kinds of things, mostly just people yelling the F word at one another with a little pushing etc. but last year at Circuit City I saw two women fighting with their fists over a wii. Blood all over their faces, then a man stepped in (the husband of one of the women) and started punching and kicking the other woman. The police arrested them there on the spot and the store suspended all sells for about an hour.

[shadow217e]

Last year at cc, got there at 10 pm or so and wasnt to far back in line. We made friends with the people around us and one of them wanted the super cheap laptop. Well, 1 hour to go and the cc employees start coming out handing out vouchers. they finally make it to us and say they have no vouchers left for the laptop. The girl who wanted it left upset. I felt sorry for her. But then a couple minutes later another cc employee comes by with the couchers. Myself and those around me felt so bad for her. One of us took a voucher while several others went off to search for her. There were so many people and cars everywhere that we had no luck. I felt so bad for her but at least we tried to find her.

Not BF related but still funny. The last year the regular xbox was still popular my brother wanted one. I remember it was impossible to find. I called all around the city trying to find anyone who had them in stock. I finally found a place and reserved it. The store was on the bad side of town. I made it down there, paid for it and the cashier asked if i wanted a bag. I sad no. He shot me a bewildered look and said "Jeez, you're brave. most people want us to walk them to thier car." I then promptly asked for a bag.

[Ludaen]

Not a BF story but I went to a GameStop near my house on the way home from the college to preorder a game for my GF for Christmas. I got there and saw a line, not knowing what the line was for I got in it anyways. It stretched outside for a bit and I could not tell how many were there already since it was already in the store.

After a bit the line starts moving and I am trying to call my friends to ask what is going on at GameStop. One finally picks up and says the Wii is taking preorders now...I had no idea.

So there is one cashier who is taking calls and doing reservations, people yell at him, so on and so forth. I get near the end and they say how many are left, I am number 11 out of the 12 remaining Wiis. Some kid in a Nintendo shirt who skipped school with his mom apparently got kind of upset and I said offered them my spot for $50. They didn't answer right away so I assumed the answer was no and make the reservation for the Wii and the game. I felt bad when they came up afterwards and said they wanted to take the deal when I had decided to keep it.

The nice thing was I got to laugh at all my friends scramble all over the place in the cold to find a Wii on launch...Even though my Karma is all screwed up now.

[littlemamaof1]

Some of these stories are really scaring the crap out of me! I will be a first timer for BF, and I am really only doing it as a favor to a friend, I must be nuts!

I do remember my mom saying she went to BF about 5 years ago, at Walmart, and everyone was slamming into each other with their carts and people would go stealing things right from anothers hands! I am thinking I should wear a helmet and pads! (I am a smaller gal and I really dont want to get trampled)

[littlemamaof1]

She opens her jacket and sure enough is wearing the same sweater. I was motified.


OMG that was HILARIOUS! I almost choked on my ice cream. That reminds me of a time my friend and I were holiday shopping and she kept saying she had to pee, but we didnt want to loose our place in the checkout lines, so when we are finally done we run into the ladies room and her hands are full of bags so she kicks open a stall door and there is this poor little lady on the pot! She was mortified!

[MainEvent]

Any good stories for this year's fellas?

Nothing exciting really went down for me.