I Can't Believe What I Can Be Talked Into...

Those of you who read regularly know that my son-in-law is one of my favorite people and because I have such a soft spot for him, I have a very hard time telling him "no" to anything he asks of me.  Thanks to Trav I now know more about football than anyone needs to because I watch practically ALL the games while running Stat-tracker, keeping track of not only MY Fantasy points, but everyone in my league's Fantasy points.  It's a crazy obsession (don't say I didn't warn all of you about my latent competativity).

So his latest request challenges all my rules of ideal shopping.  While in Portland, he wants us to get up pre-dawn to hit the stores on Black Friday and people watch.  Not necessarily intending to purchase anything, but just to watch the people go nuts over what they perceive to be unresistable deals.  First of all, I am not a morning person.  I generally am not fully awake till sometime around 9:00a.m. and only after at least two cups of coffee.  Let's just say I'm a slow starter.  And my perfect shopping experience involves going to the stores when they are LEAST busy.  I pretty much refuse to go to Walmart, but if and when I do, I like to go late at night or in the middle of the day on a Monday when I think the fewest amount of crazy Walmart shoppers will be there and the lines will be reasonable in length.  But Trav tells me this will be FUN!  I'm not too sure about that part, but I am game to give it a try this once. Because he asked me.

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