As the clock reaches 5 a.m., tensions mound, the doors finally open. The only thing standing between Allison and what she wants (a plasma TV) is the lone security guard…she just accidentally trampled. Now, Allison has to decide whether go for the TV or help a fellow human being?

Ignorance and Want: The Death of Christmas

Every year, Allison took the Friday after Thanksgiving off (from work) just for this purpose. Since she was a junior in high school, the same year the first Mega-Shopper store opened its doors in Emerald City, they’d been coming here. A dozen years later, Allison considered their meeting in Row D of the Mega-Shopper parking lot on Black Friday at 2 a.m. a sort of family reunion. With her two sisters, Roxanne and Patricia, and their mother, Frances, they eagerly joined roughly three hundred other early bird shoppers who’d formed a makeshift line along the side of the store.

Allison’s father had accompanied them only once. He hated it. In fact, he had complained so much that Allison’s mother banished him to the car to sit quietly until the store opened. Upon his return, he resumed his bitching even more so. After all, he had had a couple of hours of sitting in a cold car—Frances forbade her husband to turn on the heater—to think about this bizarre tradition.

“Y’all a bunch of fruit cakes. Who in their right mind would stand in line for three hours just to save a few bucks!” he shouted.

“Shut up Carl, before I send you back to the car,” said Frances. She wagged her finger in his face.

That did little to slow Carl down. He was on a roll. He flung his arms up wildly. “Y’all crazy! Y’all just damn crazy,” said Carl. “I’m going back to the car. And not ‘cause you told me to. If something happens, don’t y’all be looking for me to help.”

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