The Nationwide Shopping Spree

I was probably born with some form of technology in my hand. I have always admired cellular phones, laptops, and various types of electronics. Those who invented them piqued my curiosity. How can an iPod so small work? I took apart a desktop computer to figure out. All I saw was huge pieces of green material with weird gold points all over them. Just looking at it excited me.
This is why I begged my dad to take me “Black Friday” shopping with him. He told me that I would easily get lost due to the massive amounts of chaos. So that night, my sister and I secretly set our alarm clocks to 3:30 AM. That night I couldn’t sleep due to massive doses of anxiety. When I finally fell asleep, I was awoken by Maria’s lights. They were flipped on. So I reached over to look at the time. 3:30. So lazily, I turned off my alarm clock so I could have more rest. At 5:00 AM, I desperately needed to use the restroom. So when I came out, I heard my dad’s alarm going off. So I rushed to get dressed and I went to Maria’s room to wake her up.
When we went downstairs, my dad wasn’t so pleased. He angrily yelled at us. I sadly walked to the couch and sat down. After sitting there for a while, I walked upstairs. There was my dad, standing by the door. He reluctantly said, “Fine, let’s go”, my first reaction was to call Maria. This was going to be fun!
So when we finally decided to go to Best Buy after some indecision. When we got there, I was like “damn!” there were so many people waiting. Apparently, Best Buy was only letting a certain number of people go in at a time. With a second’s change of plans, we drove to Hhgregg. Everything there was on sale. An eight GB mp3 player was $14.99. A DVD player was $9.99. These are simply ridiculous prices, so I guess that’s why there were a whole lot of people for four hardworking cashiers.
Another change of plans! Staples didn’t seem to have a lot of people so we decided to go. Staples was crowded. Everything there was EXPENSIVE. Well, half the things there were half-priced, but, damn! There were 6 cashiers for SO MANY people, but after 6:30 most people were gone. Daddy bought eight computer mousses’ for each person in his lab using our own money!
The next stop on the Black Friday shopping train was at Office Depot. Yes Office Depot was crowed, but not as bad. My dad spent a while looking for the perfect laptop for my mom, while Maria and I was looking around the store. He found two perfect laptops. The one you are reading from now and another similar one. Office Depot isn’t the biggest store out there, so there are four cash registers. Here’s the catch, all computer buyers have to stand in a special line, A line where fifty people were standing with one cashier in control. Each person approximately took five minutes per laptop they bought. So yeah, I guess that’s where the worst part began. We waited for one hour in line. The lady in front of us complained to the manager, and he said he couldn’t do anything about that and if she wanted these low prices, she would have to sacrifice. What the hell?
So when we finally left with two brand new laptops, including the one I am typing on now. I was quite surprised when Mama found these laptops too big for her petite likings. So she gave it to me. I was both happy and excited. I never thought this would be mine! Thank you fate, for giving me this laptop!