Thanksgiving

I overheard someone speaking of Thanksgiving this year being right on the heels of December, and so this morning I checked. Yes, this year we have a late Thanksgiving, which means the merchants will have a late Black Friday. It occurs to me that there may be a lobby develop to change the law so that Thanksgiving is not the fourth Thursday in November, but so many Thursdays prior to Christmas.

I imagine retailers are busy trying to arrange to have pre-Black Friday sales without taking all the bang out of this newly sprung tradition.  I imagine, though, for the young, athletic set, it will remain a festive time of lining up in the cold, camping out, arranging football like pass plays of items to people stationed at cash registers and so forth. Actually, I can see people my age coordinating teams of “foot men” out in stores, texting in code, maybe hacking into surveillance cameras to monitor progress. Maybe you could have one person dress up as a BIG store security person who assists your team members.

I know . . . an action movie of Black Friday Shopping, not unlike The Italian Job.

Well, at least I have something to keep my mind busy today.