Black Friday....not the best experience

Jill and I went shopping on Friday, hoping that we would find a bunch of great deals.....Although we did find a couple, Friday was just another ordinary shopping day. There was something a little different about black Friday though, and it wasn't the deals. It was the long lines that we had to wait in, the traffic jams that we were stuck in, and claustrophobia kicking in every store that we entered because stores were so packed with people.

The first mistake that I made was bringing Jill to shop with me when I was shopping for an item that I wanted to get her. I thought that I had a great idea by dropping Jill off at the Fashion Show Mall on the Las Vegas strip and then going to my "secret store" to buy her "secret gift". The idea was a good one and Jill had no idea where I was going or what I was doing but after realizing that I left my wallet in Jill's purse when I was checking out at the "secret store", I knew that this was going to be a long day.  I had the store put the items on hold that I had picked out for Jill, hoping to return in about an hour.....that didn't quite happen. The store that I was at was only about five miles away from the Fashion Show Mall but it took me about half an hour to get there because of all the traffic. When I got to the mall, I called Jill hoping to meet up with her but quickly found out that her phone had died while she was in the mall. After several minutes of searching for Jill, She called me back with what little juice she could squeeze out of her cell phone battery. I found her in Forever 21, a store that we ended up shopping in for another 2 1/2 hours--not the best store to get stuck in for a guy. We stayed at the mall for about another hour after we left forever 21 and then headed back to the "secret store" to get the present that I placed on hold for Jill. Since I'm not too familiar with Las Vegas, I ended up taking a wrong turn to the store and had to drive an extra 45 minutes in order to get back on track and to the "secret store". When we got to the store, I bought the items that I had picked out and brought them out to the car only to find out that the items wouldn't fit it the car. And the whole time I was in the store and bringing out the gifts that I got for Jill, she had to close her eyes so she wouldn't ruin the surprise. Because the items wouldn't fit in the car, we had to go home empty handed and waste a good two hours trying to find this store and having to go there twice because I forgot my wallet the first time. Black Friday definitely wasn't the best experience this year.