Black Friday. The day where everyone suddenly needs that new outfit or electronic because it's "70 percent Off!" With Target selling over 3,000 t.v.'s per minute this past Black Friday, I was bound to fall into the dark abyss known as "shopping." Luckily I didn't go alone, (my mom and sister were the ones who got me to go), and, myself not being an avid shopper, this was my first Black Friday event. Needless to say, it didn't disappoint.

Bergner's

Our first stop was Bergner's for a pair of boots my mom had seen online. Since we began our adventure around 7:30, I was expected most of the chaos to have died down...I was partially right.

I knew this was going to be interesting upon finding a clump of someone's hair outside the doors. This wasn't a "stray hair" hair clump, this was "torn out during a hard core fight-to-the-death" hair clump. While this made me feel uneasy, it bothered me more that I didn't take a picture to warn others of the perils ahead, (or that I never saw someone in Bergner's with a large bald spot).

Thankfully it gets better from here. While the inside of Bergner's obviously went through a Black Friday sale the day before, (cloths, price tags, etc. littered the floor), it was relatively calm. My mom found what she was looking for and we even managed to get a good deal on an Under Armour sweatshirt. Overall, the scare factor was to a minimum.

Old Navy

We then went to Old Navy, which is where my sister finds most of her outfits (not to mention the weirdly perfect socks). Similar to Bergner's, you could tell that a storm had passed through, but it was more tame than I expected.

We got in and out of there pretty quickly without any problems (sorry?) and went to our next location.

H&M

This was the place that I expected be packed with crazy Black Friday shoppers. I was right.

While you weren't bumping into people at every turn, H&M was filled with millennials and college students, (most of whom looked dead inside and about to pass out from exhaustion). Surprisingly, while sifting through the zombies, I managed to find an amazing top and cute sweatshirt with smiling sushi (which I ended up not getting, but still...it was cute). I even found a sweater that would have been perfect for Christmas with my family, but it wasn't in my size. All was going well...until we got in line.

The line itself wasn't the problem; it was the people. The mother-daughter duo in front of us were complaining about everything, from the line (which, I repeat, wasn't that long) to the cashiers being "too slow" (there were two and they were working there butts off). I even heard the daughter make fun of the female cashier's outfit (it was a simple black dress with a cardigan over it).

Even worse were the people behind us. It was a father and his two daughters, (around 8 or 9 years old), both of which had stacks of clothes with them. The daughters were doing just fine until they started fighting about having found the same shirt and how they couldn't be "matchies." They continued to fight for the rest of the time we were waiting in line and when we left the store. While I was irritated at the girls' constant bickering, I couldn't help but feel bad for the father, who merely starred ahead with the look of "please kill me" in his eyes.

Walmart

After getting Starbucks and debating between Target and Walmart, we ended up getting here at around 12:45. To my surprise, Walmart was still very busy.

As soon as we walk into the store, you could see the levels of crazy that were going on. At every turn you saw someone going all out on the Black Friday deals. The person that was most "tame" was a woman who had an entire cart full of iPads. iPads. In what universe does someone need that many tablets, (and if this universe exists, I want to live in it). Like I said, that was the most tame.

As we walked through the store, my mom decided we should take a look at the Christmas decorations and other Christmas-themed goodies. All was fairly normal (not including the copious amounts of Frozen-themed Christmas crap) until we got to the Christmas pet toys.

Why do they have these? I don't know. I am not a pet person, but I still wouldn't understand why you would buy a Santa for your pet to maul or a reindeer to chew on.

Anyway, I expected toys like I just described...but they were worse. These pet toys were Christmas emoji-themed. Christmas. Emoji. They looked absolutely ridiculous! These emoji's weren't even the standard ones, they were knock-offs. The worst one was the poop emoji with a Christmas hat (thankfully, I learned from the hair clump experience and I took a picture, which is below).

If this isn't the spawn of pet toy Satan, I don't know what is (I will say that the smiling emoji's in the background are far less disturbing).

To continue, we went on toward the electronics section to find the new MADDEN 17 video game for my cousin. As we went through what was left of that department, my sister saw a laptop that was 40% off. Considering that our laptop at home was from 2008, it was time for an upgrade. And as my sister attempted to convince my mom, a woman with her son walk up to us and try to get us not to buy the laptop! She claimed that "if there are a bunch left over, then they [Walmart] will drop the price more." Even though I believed her, I just couldn't get over the level of "crazy deal saving" in her eyes (her son was no better,since he looked more miserable than the father at H&M). This trend of "wait for deals" continued when my mom spotted a new printer that was about fifty dollars less than the one that never worked at home. Once again, you could see people around us that were lurking trying to stop people from buying various things. Thankfully, we didn't listen and bought both the laptop and printer (to my fathers surprise when we got home).

All in all, my first Black Friday experience was more awkward than it was normal or crazy. I will say this however: I will be looking forward to new levels of chaos in the years to come.

Let the extreme deals and consumerism live on!