All Night, Really?

I hung out with some friends I hadn't seen in a while tonight. We met at one of their houses. We were expecting that he was going to have some large screen television as his goal was to buy one that was on sale at Best Buy in the early bird special.

Last night at 9:30 when he left his parents house to go home, he drove past the Best Buy (which he planned on going to around 2:00 in the morning) and there were already over 75 people in line. Expecting that the store only had 4 of the televisions that he was looking for, he decided it wasn't worth it, as i would have.

Seriously, people waited for two - three days to get the Playstation 3 last week, and are now waiting for 12 hours to save a couple hundred dollars on a television. I want as many of the nifty gadgets as anyone, but sometimes greed and lust amaze even me.

I generally am willing to work to save for the full price of anything I want that bad. I can't imagine thinking it is important enough to wait that much time in the cold for. If you want it that bad, buy it at full price a month ago.