Grannie, get your gun...

You always hear about how men have this "sense of adventure" thing that they have to satisfy in their life. There have been books written about it... Well, I have a hypothesis. I think that women also have a longing for battle and adventure that cries deep inside them. A desire to seek and conquer. Now some, I know, may have trouble thinking about women in this way, but I have good reason to think this. At 5:03a.m. on Friday the 26th of November, the biggest sales day of the year, my grandma, two aunts, step mom, sister and I (six determined women) were standing in the electronics aisle of walmart. We had read about a deal on digital cameras in the walmart insert in the paper and decided to divise a plan and go for it. So my grandma came and woke us up at 4:15 and by 4:45 we were on the road. Oh yes, that is A.M. I was a little doubtful that there would be any people crazy enough to wake up to go to WALMART at such wee hours of the morning, and as we passed by the K-mart parking lot, we saw a few cars, maybe five or so, and I felt very foolish. As we crested the hill to where the mecca of walmart stood, to my amazement, the entire town of Monroe was parked in the parking lot, complete with campers and RV's, dedicated shoppers who refused to miss out on the best deals of the season. Our adrenaline started pumping. We saw the challenge that lie before. Our first obstacle: We couldn't find a parking place. Oh, but we were prepared. My aunt drove us to the front, let us out and we took off. Grandma grabbed a buggy and said she'd catch up with us, the rest of us took off in a bee line for the electronics isle. Well, if you don't know, the secret to finding a good deal is to see what all the other people have in THEIR buggies. So as we are running through the store, squeezing by the masses of people that were gathered therein, we were taking note of the miscelaneous items they had collected. Apparently, they were giving away TV's, cause everybody in the store was bumping around wih one in their cart! Not just little ones, but 20 and 27 inch! They were throwing dvd players in their buggies like they were candy! Once we reached our base, the electronics section, we decided to divide and conquer. We sent Aunt Sherri and Ashley to check out the deals on the TV's while I went to the DVD section and hunted for the CD players that I was seeing in every buggy. On the way to find the TV's Ashley saw the queen shopper. She was equipped, E-QUIPPED. She had on her sweatshirt and a hat, a fanny pack that had six walkie talkies clipped on, along with her cell phone. Woman on a mission. Since Walmart must have figured that people weren't going to be buying groceries at 5:00 in the morning, there were hair dyers, TV's, can openers, and irons in the milk section. We'd run by someone and say, "hey where'd ya get that..." and they'd holla back over their shoulder.."produce aisle!" Hilarious.
Oh the sense of accomplishment we had when at 6:00, they opened the electronics counter, and WE claimed four of the 48 digital cameras that were being offered that morning at an oh-so-beautiful sale price. Needless to say, we came out with more than we intended. We caught sale fever and definately fell into some peer pressure induced purchases, but as we checked out and headed for the door, there was a glow of victory upon us, and we knew we were champions. We went, we shopped, we conquered.