Nov
26
2010

I'll 'Ave That!

The Black Friday Miracle

Friday, November 26, 2010 - 06:19:45 am
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It was off to Target this morning in hopes of snagging a 2TB Western Digital external drive. Black Friday has been somewhat dismal with that being the only smoking hot deal we've found. Especially since it's 500GB larger than the My Book we brought at Best Buy last week (which we'll be returning) and $10 cheaper. And without the backup software that you can't delete.

We got there around 4:10am, only 10 minutes after the doors opened. It all seemed slightly more stressful than when we camped out at Best Buy last year. Once we made our way to the electronics, we found they were in a bin, behind handed out by staff. But there were plenty by the looks of things, and not that many people huddled around the guy handing them out. And then we saw the actual line these people huddled around him had come from! No, they weren't like us and had just waltzed up - there was a fucking line!

Disappointing, as this was such a good buy, but not enough to deal with that sort of shit at 4:30 in the morning. We were on a walk in, walk out mission. Plus, I did have a new 1.5TB drive, that would do I guess. We started walking towards the front of the store, deciding to not bother with anything else, discussing that we'd try to buy it online when we got home, when I stopped dead, where facing me on the a shelf I was about to turn past was a white box with colored squares down the site. A Western Digital Elements box, just sitting on the shelf in front of me. Honestly, it was like a scene out of the movies. A fucking Black Friday miracle. All it needed was some glowing rays of light and an aria chorus. I was convinced that it was going to be one of the 1TB models, but on closer inspection, saw it was indeed a 2TB one. I looked over at Katie (who hadn't noticed it at all), looked around to see whether there was any customer it was attached to, and in my best Ross Nobel voice proclaimed "I'll 'ave that!".

I'm still somewhat in disbelief. The whole thing was like it was scripted for a movie. Just at the moment I concede that I probably won't be getting one (because surely they've have to be sold out online always), there is one looking me in the face on out of place on a shelf with Barbie dolls or something such. Someone had abandoned it, for me to pick up without having to wait in that godforsaken line! Absolutely amazing!

Needless to say, we were pretty happy with out Black Friday Target experience, picked up the other items we'd looked at (but would have abandoned without the drive), checked out and we home back in bed an hour after we left the house.

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