DCist: Hysterical 'Black Friday' Planning Update

carn

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:09:51 -0500

run_for_the_hills: Someday when im the head of football-padded biker gang like in the road warrior you'll change your tune... oh yes..

rizla

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:06:42 -0500

@twinkiestar - amen to that. Try navigating the metro with a buggy @carn - it's shopping, have a deep fried pumpkin pie and relax

run_for_the_hills

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:09:52 -0500

carn Yes, it would be just great if the economy got worse and crime in DC went up. I hate big-box retailers as much as the next guy, but stop being a douche about it.

rizla

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:25:40 -0500

I'm from London and spent my first Thanksgiving in DC last year. I was amazed - and strangely seduced - by the crazy advertising around Black Friday. I was persuading my hosts that we should drive to some mega mall and buy cheap things regardless of whether we needed them or not. They threatened to throw me out onto the street.

carn

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:36:00 -0500

I hope no one shows up because everyone is broke. The condos are shuttered and abandonded. I hope the whole DCUSA complex goes out of business and becomes a dark shell covered in graffiti and occupied by junkies and street gangs. I envision darkness, newspapers blowing, a flickering street lamp with some anonymous regional sales rep hanging by a noose from it, forgotten. Merry fucking christmas.

twinkiestar

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:11:44 -0500

How about just making the effing escalators at Columbia heights *work*

adamsmorgan

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:11:38 -0500

Having the Metro open an hour earlier is going to cost the District $27,000...I doubt we'll make that up in the extra hour of sales tax... good going Grahamstander, as if the District doesn't have enough financial problems.

alexalexalex

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:29:38 -0500

EinDC, you must be referring to people who had one too many at "Logan@The Heights"

welles

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:59:16 -0500

I would not wander Columbia Frights before the sun was up so, sad to say, the nightmare mall of DCUSA is out of bounds for me this black friday morning.

EinDC

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:47:38 -0500

Alexalexalex, I'm sure a few people will be sleeping overnight outside DC-USA, but they won't be shoppers.

alexalexalex

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:43:48 -0500

I'm pretty damn skeptical that anyone will be sleeping overnight outside DC-USA. Awesome photo, though.

demonfafa

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:38:50 -0500

Shopping on Black Friday has always been a question of "Do I want awesome prices on choice items, or do I want my dignity?" Usually, it's dignity that loses. Every damn holiday season. Why can't Hannukah be earlier than this abortion of a holiday?

iAManugget

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:11:18 -0500

OH COME THE FUCK ON!!

smperk

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:01:49 -0500

blittle: there's a "turn her over" joke somewhere in there

blittle

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:45:08 -0500

I only hope they have enough toilet paper.