Today, Black Friday, is the day retailers hope to make up for lagging sales and launch the official Holiday Season of buy, buy, buy. This is the first Black Friday in recent memory that Laura and I will not be hitting the road (we never start before 9 AM and therefore are not the hard-core shoppers) to check out Target, Northgate mall, Fred Meyer, and a few other choice places with lunch at Taco Time. This holiday weekend she's with classmates traveling through Bosnia and Croatia.
I don't intend to shop today. Maybe I would if Laura were home. Nonetheless I can't help but wonder....if things don't make for happiness, why are all these people out there buying things?
Because nothing else makes them happy either?
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