Upon further research, the meme originates from the web comic goats: the comic strip. I cannot vouch for the funniness of the comic, but I found the bumper sticker on a car at the mall and it made me laugh. Hopefully you also laughed. If you didn’t, you need to lighten up, or educate yourself to the Harry Potter reference.
A picture of a seat on the Long Island Railroad designated for disabled persons. Notice above the seat is an emergency compartment.
A close up of the directions on the emergency compartment.
The seat juxtaposed with the compartment which is supposed to open out.
I need not say more. At least, I hope I don’t have to say more.
It’s a hell of a website. Jimmy says “Buckle up! It’s gonna be a wild ride!”
Jimmy works with me at my place of employment. He’s a hell of a guy, hence this plug. He ran for state senate in 2004, but he was running against a 32-year incumbant, so that’s like running against Strom Thurmond. He might be running again, so hopefully he’ll have better luck.
Note: this is still a personal blog, not a political one.
I was asked to update my blog, and update I shall.
So… I suppose I need something to update with… hmmm… I don’t lead a very interesting life, so updating my blog with something people will actually read will be somewhat of a challenge. I guess I’ll talk about my Black Friday experience.
Last Friday, I participated in the American neo-tradition of Black Friday. For those of you who reside under boulder-like objects, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving which is named because that’s when most business go “into the black”, meaning they come out of debt due to the large amount of business they get on that day. Most people do as much of their Christmas shopping as possible on Black Friday because that’s when businesses offer the best deals.
On Thanksgiving Day, my mom and sister picked up the newspaper and searched the ads for the best deals. I watched the Cowboys beat up on the Lions. I’d say my time was better spent than theirs, but then again, some people are into that kind of thing (shopping and preparing for shopping.) Mom says that we’re getting an early start tomorrow to get to the following places for specific items.
With that game plan, mom wakes me up at 5:00 on the dot in some mighty cold weather in an attempt to make purchases. Now, normally, I get up at 7:00, hit the snooze twice (or 3 times in times of excessive laziness), roll out of bed at 7:30 and get ready for work at 9:00. Getting up 2 hours earlier than usual is not what I’d call “fun”, so you can imagine how thrilled I am to get up this early to go shopping (also not what I’d call “fun”, unless I was shopping for myself, in which case it’s fucking awesome.)
Stop #1 is Circuit City. It’s 5:30 in the am and the parking lot is PACKED. The lot usually can’t fill up during normal business hours when the store and the adjacent stores are normally open, but for some reason, because it’s BLACK FRIDAY, it’s not even light out and the store is packed. Mom beats us into the store (we took separate cars since we all had separate places to go after the shopping was done) and we turn back to our cars after finding out the store is out of laptops for $199. Again, I remind you it’s 5:30 in the morning.
Store #2 is Best Buy, about 15 minutes from Circuit City. We make better progress than we did at Circuit City by actually entering the store, but we didn’t get very far beyond that. You see, upon entrance, we noticed the line for paying went around the perimeter of the store TWICE (it’s important to note that most Best Buys are the size of a warehouse, and this one was no different.) It was like a line that might be found at Disney World, except Disney World isn’t open at 6:00 in the morning, so this was actually worse than Disney World lines. We squeeze our way to the electronic cameras only to be massively disappointed as we are told the “door-buster” camcorder deal was sold out. I would’ve liked to stay at the store to browse, since I happen to like Best Buy and their selection (Movie / TV DVDs, video games, computer software and hardware, music), but time is of the essence, and we must be getting GREAT DEALS in other locations. Also, it was impossible to browse at that moment because browsing requires a certain amount of movement, and since you couldn’t get anywhere without shoving people out of your way, the amount of efforted needed to browse the store far exceeded the effort I was willing to exert at the time. So, off we go…
Last stop was Staples. You know you’re going to a smaller store when the store puts all the specials on a table in the front of the store. Well, as it turns out, we actually came out of the store with stuff (!!!), but sadly, it wasn’t anything groundbreaking. Here’s what we got…
We’re big spenders (da-da-daa-daaa). Our trip ended and we got stuff we could’ve got at any time. It was a true disappointment. I wanted to pick up a San 512MB Jump Drive, but I was told not to because it wasn’t on sale (the one that was on sale, the PYI (I think that’s the name) Jump Drive was, surprise-surprise, sold out.)
I returned home with my sister right at 7:00, which is when I would’ve got up if I haven’t partaken in this ridiculous ritual at all. At least I had extra time for breakfast… mmm… egg ham and cheese on a bagel… *drool*