Holiday Goodies

I hope this finds everyone well rested from all of the holiday excitement.  From stuffing the face with all sorts of Thanksgiving goodies, to stuffing the car full of Christmas goodies.  I tip my hat to those brave enough to face the swarm of madness that is Black Friday.

I have experienced it from both sides, retail and the customer, and both equally, well, suck.  From the retail end, you have absolutely no tolerance whatsoever.  I worked at Macy's.  In New York.  I remember the two women who tore a garment because they were arguing over it.  It was the last one in a particular size.  I was ringing out lady No.1 who originally had it.  No.2 came up to snatch it out of No.1 hand.  No.1 (who had to be 200 years old and 4 feet tall) swung on No.2 (who was about 35 and close to 6 feet tall).  Once the garment tore, (within seconds) No.2 looked at me and screamed why did I not step in and give it to her.  I smiled, and in a very even and pleasant tone, "Because you are a disrespectful bitch.  Goodbye."  I called security and had her thrown out of the mall, not the store, the mall.  You don't do that to Grandma.

On the other side, my sister and I went together.  That right there is just all sorts of bad, on a daily, much less Black Friday.  And honestly, we never start it but by God, we finish it.  But we went with awesome attitudes and if we ended up not getting what we wanted it was a total, meh, whatever. That was until some woman behind us started grabbing our stuff.  Our first stop was Kay-B-Toys.  They had reset the aisles to work like a cattle chute, gave you one large, clear coroner's office body bag and got out the way.  So I took one side, Dori took the other, the bag was in the middle.  The lady behind us started reaching into our bag to grab things.  Oh silly woman. Needless to say, she did not retain any of our items and we ended up blocking her into a corner to let many other people pass through. She needed a bib with amount of spittle that was flying out of her face.  It was funny.  We were belly laughing while waving people through like traffic cops.  Then we walked locked elbow to elbow.  For two chicks at roughly 100 pounds and within inches of 5 feet tall, we are a very effective road block. Yup.  Never again, from either side.

But Thanksgiving was awesome!  We do Italian style.  Stuffed manicotti, three cheese Italian loaf crisped with garlic infused oil, mesclun greens, and fresh baked blueberry bread for dessert.  I made mini-lasagnas as well.  Good eats, talking with the fam and football!  Just awesome!  Perfect!  

We truly hope that you had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving Day!