detroit/detroy.

Sore feet, an empty wallet, and a full car.
I think my work is done here.

So, i'm nearing the end of my detroit shopping trip. I'm just about to head off to bed, after a long day of mall-wallking. Tommorow, after grabbing our complimentary breakfast (YES.YES.YES. freecoffee.) we're going to one last department store, and then we're gonna call it quits.

Over the past two days, i've been to Lakeside, Somerset, Great Lakes, Partridge Creek, 12 Rivers (well, 12 something. ikindaforget) and a collection of other department stores, book stores, whole sale stores... It's pretty amazing how many places you can get to when you plan out your day.

We planned out each day before even getting started, which i found a little bit too military-esque, but it proved effective in the end. If we hadn't set about a 4 or 5 hour limit per mall, i'd probably still be in the first one right now. I'm not an obsessive shopper, but once i get started, and the momentum kicks in, i can go for quite a while.

Of the two days, Friday was much better, and also much worse. The sales on Friday, American Thanksgiving, were much more drastic, and so the crowds were much more dense, animated, and not to mention obnoxious. As my Dad described it, it seemed like people had the mentality that simply saying "excuse me" gives one the right to trample any amount of human bodies that would please them. What i saw on friday would only support that idea.

Even so, the picture i had in my mind of how it would be was nothing like it actually was. Just from all the talk i've heard about "Black Friday", i kind of had the picture of multitudes of people performing death strikes on each other's Xephoid Processes in a frenzy to obtain the last 99% off A&F scarf. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the crowd were not in posession of a 9th degree blackbelt in ninjutsu, people were not extremely violent, and A&F having any sort of sale whatsoever would have meant the end of the world.

Somehow, through the crowds, i was able to make my rounds through the shops, and make it to the rendezvous point unharmed and on-time. And i did it solo. Oh what a shopper i have become.

Anyways, it was great fun, and i think that any of you guys would have enjoyed it just as much as i did. I discovered some new shops and brands that i'll have to remember about for next time. andnowi'mtired.

BTW.

spentlessthanahundredbucks.

song: none, my dad is snoring away behind me, wouldn't want to interrupt that.