This year I got an infection the day before the holiday and
spent Thanksgiving in the hospital. I missed all the great Thanksgiving
specials I get to watch on my TV every year. Last year they extended Black
Friday and my TV was flooded with commercials. I’m not much of a football fan. I
like Charley Brown cartoons, but there was little pain over missing A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. The
real TV action are the many annoying commercials that shove so much
commercialism down our throats that I rarely remember anything I watched that
was really a show.
While I find the push for us to buy more useless junk
nauseating, it goes beyond that. People Fought over all the great Black Friday bargains.
Headlines screamed “Black
Friday Violence 2013: Shootings, Fights Break Out Early On Thanksgiving Day;”
“Black
Friday violence erupts across country,” with a really good line “Welcome
to Brawl-Mart;” and “Black
Friday Marred By Violence In Several States.” Who needs All Star Wrestling or professional
boxing when we have the fights and Barbarianism of Black Friday?
As of now, when I get out of the hospital, I have plenty of
mindless and commercialized TV shows to watch and this Jolly season has only
just begun.
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