Black Thursday?

   I got an email from a good friend earlier
this week.
   He works at one of those Wall Mart stores
that plans to move Black Friday up to 8pm
Thanksgiving night.
   He's been assigned to work part of the
holiday and, again, on the old fashioned Black
Friday as well.
   He's not real happy about the schedule...
especially since he took the job with an agreement
that he was not available on Fridays.
   The company, or maybe it was the "Captain,"
told him "it's all hands on deck" for Black Friday.
   I wonder if his Supervisor's name is Bligh?
   Heck, even Scrooge gave Bob Cratchit his
Christmas holiday. Of course, Cratchit undoubtedly
worked Thanksgiving. It's an American holiday!
   It seems my friend isn't the only one who is
unhappy!  More than 30,000 people have signed
an online petition asking Walmart not to make its
employees work on Thanksgiving. And Walmart
workers at 1,000 locations are planning a Black
Friday strike to protest the holiday opening!
    I've never really understood the fascination with
Black Friday.
    I never liked getting up early....for anything....
let alone shopping!
    If it's holiday shopping fun you're looking for
you should be out there on Christmas Eve! Now
there's a challenge!
    Ironically most of the places planning to open
on Thanksgiving offer on line sales. So, if you
absolutely have to shop, you can do it from your
easy chair while watching football and enjoying
a piece of pumpkin pie!
    Why would you want to leave all those left
overs to your cousin while you drive a couple of
miles to buy a Wax Warmer? What is a wax
warmer anyway? And won't it still warm wax
next Wednesday?
    I'm not real sure the Black Friday strike plans
make sense. Unless, of course, the pickets can
take turns so they'll have time to get some
shopping in!
   In my opinion the guy who came up with the
"Open Thanksgiving idea" is a real turkey!
   I wish he would have put as much thought into
a plan to make people get their shopping carts out
of the parking spaces!
   Hope you enjoy Thanksgiving AT HOME, and
that all of your NEWS is good!