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Originally Posted by flamingdog
It's not that we wish to purchase things on sale, it's that we're prepared to sacrifice our dignity, our humility and even our humanity to get at them, and woe betide anyone who tries to stop us! People fighting over stuff, scalping one another, buying something then walking out to the parking lot and immediately selling it for twice the price. Just being dicks, basically.
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*I* do not sacrifice my dignity or anything else, on this day nor any other. And guess what? I was out at the local mall for a few hours on Friday.
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Originally Posted by flamingdog
With respect, I think people are turned into drones. They act without thinking, buying shit they do not need simply because it has a discount tag, and prepared to do violence to anyone who's in the way. And don't tell me it doesn't happen that way, I've been on too many girlfriend-mandated shopping trips in my time to buy it.
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People are people. Some are dicks, some are saints, many fall somewhere in between. They choose (via Free Will (OK, maybe 50%-off will. LOL)) to act however they do, every day of the year. No one "turns" them into anything. Except maybe themselves, I suppose.
("with respect"?!?)
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My ex was the type who felt that a Saturday not spent trawling through the town centre for 'bargains' was a Saturday wasted. Who gave her that idea? Where did it come from? They don't teach you that in school, or at least, not at the school I went to. She was as much a drone as anyone else. If you asked her, she couldn't tell you why she did it (still does, in all likelihood).
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Because someone doesn't tell you why, they are a drone, eh? Well then, *I'll* tell you why. Likely she was taught by the biggest influence in her life, her mother. Shock! Horror! Outrage! Whatever! Obviously you didn't share her ideas, which is fine. But look past the surface. Don't name-call. *That* is sacrificing dignity.
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Huh. That's an insightful conclusion.
Must be feeling pretty happily self-righteous.
Yes, some people are greedy. Some people are not. Some people buy just to buy. Others buy because of less selfish reasons. Everyone's motivations are different, and forgive me if I don't think it's up to us to make sweeping generalizations and condemnations of the large group of people who dare to make the most of their limited budgets in the best way they see fit.
By the way, at my mall it was crowded. Packed. Never seen so many people there. And folks were well-behaved, mannerly, leisurely (of course I didn't go until after noon, maybe the early-morning crowds were more fierce). I hardly even encountered usual number of screaming, crying kids.
Maybe not having a chip on my shoulder about the whole thing colored my experiences for the positive.
By the way, I may sound angry, but I'm not.
Weird, huh?