Erin, I remember one Thanksgiving when I was fine before going to my aunt's house for dinner, where I played with my cousin's kids. Turns out one of them still wasn't quite over the stomach flu, and both Mom and I came down with it the next day--me while I was working at the bookstore and thankfully close enough to the bathroom. We were so short-staffed that holiday season (due to the fact that the store was going to be closing at the end of January) that they had given me a key and made me a temporary shift supervisor even though I was just a part-timer. The other managers/supervisors were already scheduled, so I had to work that weekend even though I was running to the bathroom every 20 minutes.
Worst Thanksgiving weekend ever!
Am I a crazy person for planning to go to Target and the grocery store (probably Whole Foods) on Wednesday afternoon? We're getting out of work early, so I figure I'll have time, but will the people make me crazy? Hmmmm.
Kathy, that sounds like so much not-fun. I don't have to travel, and so far, I don't feel REALLY bad, just a little run-down and very snotty and coughy. So I will be good to myself, and hopefully it will be ok.
Am I a crazy person for planning to go to Target and the grocery store (probably Whole Foods) on Wednesday afternoon?
Yes. It will be a madhouse and if you're there to buy anything Thanksgiving related they will have already sold out.
I hit up TJ's last Thanksgiving Wednesday for pie, and the lines were short and the pie plentiful. So I'd say it depends.
I hate "it depends"!! Well, fuckit, I don't feel like going tonight and have plans tomorrow, so Wednesday it's going to be. I'm not looking for super Thanksgiving-oriented stuff, and I'm flexible about what I get, so. (I'm bringing crudite. So I don't really care what it is, specifically.)
I still have to do T-Day shopping. And I have Derby practice tonight and the kids are done with school for the week today.
And sometimes I get caught up in the thrill of the crowd. I think it was the weekend before Christmas that one time that I went into Times Square in order to go to both the Sanrio store AND Toys R Us. It was kind of awesome. Although I'm sure I shoved some people into the street.
Hubby likes to go to the mall on Christmas Eve. It's a weird sort of rush.
I remember going to the mall one 12/24. I will never do that again. Mom's talking about doing a bit of shopping this Friday, and I nipped that idea in the bud--after working retail for years, I flat-out refuse to go anywhere near a store on that day. (Although grocery stores do tend to be empty that day, so that's the only place I'd go.)
Oh, and a quick reassurance about the sick Thanksgiving weekend--after finding out I was ill, I made it a point to stay in the back room and away from customers as much as possible. I was just there if the other employees needed me and then for closing the store.
