This is a post for the most intelligent people in the United States. The people who DID NOT try to return anything to the stores today. I know that you’ll be the first ones to read it because everyone else is STILL IN LINE. I’m not kidding. Who in their right mind walks into a store, sees that the lines at customer service are roughly 3.2 miles (5.15 kilometers) long and thinks “Hey! I’m not the only one who got a purple and green sweater from Aunt Gizelda that, ummm, doesn’t fit… Neat!” No, my friends, the smarter of us, when forced or inclined to return christmas presents do not do so the day after Christmas… or even the week after.
Here’s the funnier thing… I went to best buy and not only were the return lines long, but it seemed like everyone within a 100 mile radius decided to cash in their gift certificates right then, right there. Best Buy folks had cordoned off the check out area and were making people wait in a single file line for the four cashiers. This single file line wrapped (and I’m not exaggerating) a third of the way around the outside of the inside of the store.
I was not returning gifts, mind you, I was just browsing. So congratulations to those of you who did not return things today… you are clearly more intelligent than the folks I saw standing in massively long lines.
In other news, I caught a post over at Tess’s about all sorts of nastiness going on over at the University of Illinois. This is obviously of great interest to me, because I’m from Illinois. Maybe more disturbing than the 20-something rapes that have taken place this semester is the fact that the police and university seem to be uninterested in doing anything about it. But they’ve installed new lights! Go here for the scoop.
I hope Santa did naughty things to you was good to everyone… now it’s time to make plans for New Years. Any suggestions? Maybe we should do a poll for this one too?
