So here’s the summary.
Having gone momentarily insane over the Black Friday specials at Best Buy, my wife decided that we would make sure we were able to snag two particular items: a $250 Toshiba laptop, and a $130 Samsung MiniDV camcorder. Of course, to do this, she dropped me off at the front door of the store around 5:30PM on Thanksgiving as we were driving back from dinner in Connecticut. Having arrived at 5:30PM, I found myself #6 in line, behind a family from Manhattan who’d been there since 2PM, some nice people who arrived around 3:30PM from the Bronx, and a dude from Jersey named Paulie.
Fast-forward. Wife arrives back at Best Buy around 9PM with blankets, my Nintendo DS, a couple of books for me, and some chairs. Thankfully I had already established a perimeter using my Evil Stare, and thus had a bench for myself and the aforementioned Paulie. Wife goes up to Dave & Buster’s and snags us some dinner so we don’t go insane. I discovered that I had a knack for something: when someone came up and set up their chair near the front of the line, I didn’t have to say a word. I just hunch down in my chair and start staring. Eventually they become unnerved and ask the other people in line why I’m staring at them, at which point the others inform them that it would probably be a damn fine idea for them to get to the back of the line where they belong.
Fast-forward some more. We managed to get 3 vouchers for doorbuster deals somehow, and ended up with the following:
- Toshiba L35-S2151 laptop
- Samsung MiniDV camcorder (since given to Sara’s brother)
- Panasonic MiniDV camcorder
- 2 Motorola Bluetooth headsets
- 4 4-packs of MiniDV tapes
- Blazing Saddles on DVD
All in all, fairly successful, and I’ve learned that people do not want to mess with me when I’ve had little to no sleep in a 25-hour period because apparently I give off a vibe that says “I bet I would feel rested if I drove a pipe wrench into your face” or something like it.
And props to Ken for snagging me the 400gb external hard disk from Staples. Awesome.
