So, what are you all planning for the Thanksgiving? Time with family/friends, sleeping in and not working, or do you have to work? I'm lucky enough to work where I have Thursday and Friday off from work. For me, it will be a casual lunch with family, followed by some target shooting, and a day of laziness on Friday.
While I'm on this subject, I'm going to get on my soapbox for a moment . . . So, we have a holiday where we are supposed to be expressing our thankfulness for what we have, and many people spend most of November listing what they are thankful for on social media. We have a big meal at lunchtime, visit with family/friends, maybe watch some football, and then a large chunk of the population heads out for late night/early morning shopping. They leave all civility at home, and go into the stores like wild animals, pushing, shoving, and just generally being rude. What happened to the whole being thankful for what we have that occurred less than 24 hours before?! Also, the trend is toward opening earlier, and earlier. A few years ago, it became common for stores to do really early morning openings...then midnight openings.. Now stores are opening at 7:00-8:00 PM, and some aren't even closing. While it may seem like a convenient and fun thing for people to be able to leisurely head out for some late night shopping after a day of spending time with friends and family, people do NOT think about the people who have to give up their holiday off to make that possible. This one hits close to home for me... My girlfriend works retail for an upscale retailer that has decided to open early in the evening on Thanksgiving. What does that mean for us? Well, she has to work into the night tonight, then go back in the late afternoon, work into the early morning hours, come home, try to cram in a few hours of sleep, then go back and work all day on Friday - still tired from the night before on the craziest retail day of the year. It means that she is not going to be able to spend time with family a couple of hours away, because that is too much driving under stress for us in one day to make it back in time for work. While that may seem bad, I noticed that "Fred's" stores are opening EARLY on Thanksgiving and staying open, and "Dollar Tree" stores and Wal-Mart are just operating their regular hours. Okay, I'm getting down off the soapbox now...it just really has me steamed that our Thanksgiving together gets ruined because a big portion of the population can't wait a few more hours to go trample each other to save a few dollars on something that will probably be sold out by the time they get there, anyway. Allen B. -- Allen Beddingfield [email protected]
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