Did you go shopping on Black Friday and line up at 3 a.m. at your local Wal-Mart or Penney´s? Did you get that great deal on something you or your family probably doesn´t need like the high definition TV which uses five times as much electricity as your old color set? Did you do your national duty and buy, buy, buy?

I can´t think of anything I´d rather not do over the Thanksgiving holiday than go shopping. But all the TV commercials and newspaper ads try to rev up business and the news shows tell us that´s where everybody goes. Tiger Woods was probably rushing to get in on the action when he drove into the fire hydrant-he was looking for just that special something for his model wife, I´m sure, and couldn´t race to Target fast enough to get on line in the wee hours.

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