Thanksgiving Midnight Madness/Black Friday, 2008

I've never been shopping on Thanksgiving weekend. Usually we're in Cornwall, and in Canada the sales are on Boxing day so the opportunity never arose. Now I'm not into shopping, but I was intrigued by the whole concept of Black Friday - and I wanted to see human greed and American consumerism meet at their finest hour!

So we reached Leesburg Premium outlets at 11.30pm, and already had a hard time finding parking.





Look at the rush of people inside Banana Republic. The checkout line was so long, snaking all around the store, it took 40 minutes to reach checkout.











The Mob.



There was a line outside Coach that went COMPLETELY around the block at midnight - the store would not open till 5am!





I had never heard of a brand called Pacific Sunwear, but it had a Coach rivalling line of kids and were using a 1-out-1-in rule to regular shoppers - interesting that Banana didn't bother with maximum occupancy rules - "we want your money, and don't car if you are crushed to death in the process".



Another around the store checkout line - this time at Puma.





Who cares if you don't have a car? Rent one just to go shopping!



Who cares if there's no parking? Just park on the grassy embankment!



All worn out - walked home at 6am, passed out by 6.05am.



The aftermath - both cars chock full!