I took a little break from the blogging world this past Holiday weekend. For one reason I wanted to detatch myself from the computer long enough to speak to my family without using cyber lingo. The other is I voluteered for Atlanta’s Open Hand and on Wednesday and Thanksgiving morning I helped prepare meals for people who have been strickened with a terminal illness and are spending the last months in private away from the hospital. I quess I’m a bleeding heart because I couldn’t find anything to write about after that expirience. But it did change me a little and now I think my Saturday mornings will be spent doing the same. I’ll write about it in the next blog.

  I really want to talk about last Friday morning and how I braved the “Black Friday” shopping madness. For years I laughed at the poor souls who subject themselves to long lines, parking frustrations and rude people only to save a little money in exchange for their sanity. Well, the joke was on me and I was forced to spend a few hours in shopping Hell and the entire time I made a mental list of what I would rather do or be strickened with than be there. Here it is in no particular order.

1. Only able to knock on doors with my face
2. Get in a spitball war with Rosie O’Donald
3. Drink a cup of laxetives and get interviewed on the Larry King Live show
4. Pass out in public and get sexually ravaged by a toy poodle
5. Legally have my name changed to Pumpy
6. Take a back road mountain drive in a 67′ beetle, no AC and drink luke warm milk as a passenger.
7. Forced to only dress in Hip Hop apparel.
8. Eat 5 microwavable sausages, look on the back of the box and find out it is a proud sponser on the 1996 Olympics.
9. Have to “shot gun” all canned drinks.
10. Can only brush teeth with small rodents. (The good ones, ie. hamsters or gerbils)
11. Have the same name as someone on the terrorist watch list.
12. Have a quantum leap only to find out that I am the hot dog eating champion on race day.
13. Find out Santa isn’t real.
14. Take political advice from anyone in Hollywood
15. Get into a serious conversation with someone who has a bad stuttering problem and try not to crack a smile.
16. Actually work retail on Black Friday.
17. Only watch the Hallmark channel, Lifetime and Women’s Entertainment forever.
18. Spend a weekend trapped in a walk-in closet with Steve-O from Jackass.
19. Streak at an Iranian soccer game
20. Eat cereal out of the box and half way through feel something furry.

  Now I am serious about that list. From now on I will only shop online and if you do too, please use X-Entertainment’s Amazon link so Matt can afford his annual Advent calender. If you are unfamiliar take some time to read it starting in 2002. It is quite possibly the funniest and most creative thing I have ever read and it wouldn’t be Christmas without it.