Throwback Thursday from Nov. 2014 – The Morning After The Day Before
Throwback Thursday
The Morning After The Day Before
A lot of people are calling today “Black Friday,” a piece of accounting slang indicating 
that today is the day when their sales ledgers go from Red Ink to Black Ink. Many retail concerns realize the majority of their sales for the year in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. What a way to live.
For me today is “The Morning After the Day Before.” It really doesn’t have a color. Everything is shrouded in an L-Tryptophan cloud. Rather than go battle the hordes of shoppers at The Mall I am spending this day fighting the urge to go back to bed or to catch a nap standing up as I wait for my coffee.
If I were to go shopping I’m sure that I would come home with – stuff. I don’t need any more stuff. My wife doesn’t need any more stuff. We really don’t need half of the stuff we have right now.
I’m just glad that I don’t have a “Bed, Bath And Beyond” store nearby. Whenever I go into that store I become enraptured by all of the “Beyond” stuff. It is like finding myself trapped inside every Infomercial extant on TV. I see piles of microwave cooking gizmos and various adhesives (in a selection of colors) that would enable me to drill holes in my boat without fear. But I don’t have a boat.
In a way it all takes me back and makes me feel young again. Strolling through a “Bed, Bath And Beyond” is like preparing to furnish a college dorm room with a wide range of stuff prohibited by the school in addition to things your mother insists that you actually need.
No, today is the day when I sit quietly in a stupor and let other people move the economy forward. I’m just not capable of being a cog in the commercial engine – tomorrow maybe, but not today. Today I am content to be little more than organic matter in size 10 shoes. I can and will respond to basic stimuli, but little more. Cogent thought and critical thinking will have to wait until the fog lifts. My wife has confirmed that I am quasi-capable of forming simple sentences aloud, but she doesn’t think I’ll be going much beyond that until Sunday. It sounds like today may be the perfect day for me to ensconce myself in ‘The Rip Van Winkle Memorial Chair’ and stumble through Netflix. Oh, look! Six thousand movies I’ve never heard of.
I’ll get back to you tomorrow.
Down the Hall on Your Left 
Boy, I couldn’t agree with you more. I’m just not a fan of the Christmas shopping season. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, some days off from your regular routine, no giftgiving, and football. Although, I don’t watch much football anymore. I’m a Buffalo Bills fan and they haven’t been in the playoffs for 19 years. Maybe that’s a good thing because it’s wean me off Sunday afternoon TV, other than their game. Maybe if we all just stop shopping, Then Black Friday will go away. I hope I didn’t disturb your rest. Seize the day, or whatever the Latin term for that saying is.
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I can empathize with you about the football. ..I was a Browns fan for many years. I moved to California just to see better games.
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