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Holy schlamoly.
We got there at 11:55, and the parking lot was COMPLETELY full; we had to park at a neighboring shopping center. We saw at least two charter buses.
The line to get into Coach was insane; I bumped into a kid I used to teach, and she said that if we got in line then (at about 12:30), we couldn't expect to get in the door until daylight. I saw a lady with a Coach shopping bag, and she said they got in line at 9 PM and got in about 10:30 (the store didn't actually close tonight.) The line in the toy store was so awful that I couldn't actually get to the toys.
My friend Wendy just laughed. It cured either of us of ever wanting to go Black Friday shopping again, and it was funn to watch the crowds. There were small children there, babies in strollers, college kids, old people, and some sort of Asian field trip. More than half the people we saw were Asian, which is not part of the usual demographic for that outlet mall. (It's usually mostly redneck.)
Craziness. I think I'll just go to Wal Mart in the wee small hours sometime next week...