Yes, yes

About two years ago, I couldn't help but get dragged into the latest popular-culture craze of that time. Being the father of two teenagers, I take pride in knowing something about what my kids are doing and thinking, but I have to admit I wasn't fully prepared for the onslaught of the release of video gaming systems. The previous round of introduction of gaming systems hadn’t affected our household much, but then my kids were not in their teens either. I had actually let my guard down since Black Friday had come and gone and I had slept through most of it. Retail establishments have colored this day a happy black since it contrasts with being in the red. For shoppers it is black because for most of them it starts while it is still dark out and also because they enter the poorly lit tunnel of free-spending, the only light at the end of which is the on-coming train of unending credit card bills. I thought I had dodged the bullet of standing in line for stores to open, in uncomfortable weather, reminiscing about similar Soviet era images usually with a caption exhorting the virtues of the Capitalistic system. But you do have to give our system its due that it gives you a choice, and I had taken full advantage of the choice by not participating, at least not on Black Friday.