By Mary Powell ~ Salina Post
Black Friday of 2011 brought out the worst in some folks, or so it seems. I read articles and heard news reports about the violence that occurred in some retail stores. It just blows my mind. I guess I am not a material girl. I could care less about the latest electronics or the newest DVD release; I just can’t understand why people fight over things that aren’t really that important. I don’t understand why people want to fight over things they have to buy. I can understand someone fighting to keep their own property but good grief, Charlie Brown; don’t these people know what they look like? Don’t these adults understand what they are teaching their children? It is no wonder kids these days behave like they are entitled to free college educations.
Maybe I am old fashion but I like it this way. I was taught at a very young age that life isn’t fair. If the person in the line ahead of you gets that last piece of pumpkin pie, you just suck it up and find another sweet to eat. What happened to manners and etiquette? Why has our country become so animalistic in behavior that people find it necessary to use pepper spray to go Christmas shopping? Is it really worth all that hassle?
What is so great about getting that new electronic toy if in six to eight months there is an updated version that is better? We live in the United States of America, not the former Soviet Union where things were rationed out. No, we still live in the land of plenty and if we are patient enough, the prices are a lot cheaper after the holidays and after the first initial round of sales. Just wait until after Christmas if you ‘just have to have it’.
Christmas is suppose to be the time when we focus on goodwill towards man but that isn’t what we are seeing in the retail stores. Fights, pepper spray and people standing outside stores trying to steal those purchased items isn’t what Santy Claus wants to see. He will mark you down for clumps of coal if you behave that way. I am ashamed to see adults behave so childishly. What happened to manners folks? What happened to proper behavior in public? Just when I thought the Occupy protests were bad enough, Christmas shoppers reach a new low. Now who is behaving like baboons and chimpanzees?
Hopefully people understand why I refuse to go shopping in town during Christmas season. I hate the stupidity and I certainly don’t want to become a victim of some nut job shopper that carries pepper spray. No, I will do like I have always done and buy gifts throughout the year for those I care for and forget about buying during the shopping season. Oh, and Christ is the reason for the season, not shopping.
God Bless you and God Bless America, Again.
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