Black Friday

My first Black Friday ever went something like this:

• Wake up at 6:30 am when Sidney calls
• Fall back asleep until about 7 am after staying up until at least 12:30 on Thanksgiving
• Shower and leave house around 9 am after breakfast, directions, and magazine reviewing
• Drive to Fort Lee to meet Sidney, on the way passing through the Express EZ Pass by accident instead of using the cash lane
• Arrive at his house around 10 am
• Drive with Sidney to Verizon store to get him a replacement phone after a toilet-bowl incident
• Wait for Sidney, who emerges from Verizon store frustrated and disgruntled due to a magic monitor in the store which had rearranged the names on the waiting list right before his turn
• Drive halfway to Garden State Plaza before becoming annoyed with traffic and turning around in favor of Palisades Center
• Search for parking for a good 20 minutes
• Debate over eating options and search for food court to get energy back up; indulge
• Begin shopping at Express for Men; help Sid pick out 3 shirts
• Enter Express (for women) and pick out one shirt; not finding the proper shirt to go under it, check out, realizing that the 20% discount for the day would only be applied to merchandise purchased before 11 am - now long past - and that sales tax is applicable in New York
• Leave mall, still not understanding the whole fuss of Black Friday as Sidney and I had each purchased merchandise at full-price anyway
• Return home, meet Sidney's family, see a movie, take a nap, go out to eat, sleep

Overall a great day unrelated to Black Friday. Maybe next year we will plan our adventure earlier than the night of Thanksgiving, wake up early, and buy electronics.