The day after Thanksgiving in the United States, where it is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. Since Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday may be as early as the 23rd and as late as the 29th of November. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many employers give the day off, increasing the number of potential shoppers. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 am or even earlier) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1970s. - Wikipedia.
In previous years, I would wake up at the crack of dawn (that's the crack of dawn, not the Crack of Donn) to hit all the sales out there. I remember struggling to get up at 4am and waiting in the Best Buy line so that I can get a free pack of CD-R's with the purchase of another. I put myself through this torture for five years, but this year I decided that sleep was more important. So, for the first time in five years, I slept in the day after Thanksgiving!
I woke up at about noon, had lunch, and I took my niece to see Bee Movie. I highly recommend this flick, and that's not because of my obsession with bees. Heck, I drive a bright yellow Mini Cooper with the license place POLLIN8, and I have been known to don a bee suit. If IDOM ever decides to use a bee in our next 48 Hour Film project, I am so there. Imagine us pulling superhero film as our next genre. Picture the killer bee as the villain terrorizing shoppers on black Friday, and it's up to Donn Man to save the world! I may be on to something here...
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