Defying the Threats of Economic Depression

Friday, the day after Thanksgiving Day, is called Black Friday. I asked my husband why it’s called that. He said, “It’s because the businesses will finally make profits during that day, which will put them in the Black rather than in the Red once again.” Unless you’ve taken some business courses in your schooling days, those terms don’t make a wee bit of a sense. They didn’t to me. I gathered from his phrase that Black must mean profit and Red must mean loss.

Not that I didn’t trust what hubby said, in fact, he suggested that I Google it out, just to make sure. So, I visited one of my favorite web sites: The Free Dictionary. Wikipedia Encyclopedia there confirmed what he said. I’m glad, or else his Master’s Degree in Business Management would have meant nothing, eh?

Of course, Black Friday, according to Wikipedia, has many other meanings. But for this particular Black Friday, following Thanksgiving Day, Wikipedia defines it as “the day retail businesses would make their profits for the year and be operating in the "black" and not the "red".

Yesterday, after I got off from work in the morning, I went shopping. Yes, I went to do my patriotic duty in reenergizing the economy and helped those businesses be in the black. Due to my work hours, I was denied of the 5:00 a.m. mad rush, NOT! Anyway, wherever I went, I had to drive around at least twice before finding a parking spot. That was how packed the stores and the mall were. Once inside, I was greeted by long lines of people to the registers. As I walked the mall, I noticed all the stores, busy and eating places, packed. Everybody I saw was towing carts or bags full of goodies.

Everybody was out, shopping like there isn’t an economic depression. Except for a few run-down-looking vehicles, the vehicles that I saw parked at every parking lot are new and expensive ones. I don’t know if Cheyenne or the State of Wyoming is not yet affected by the depression. Either that or everyone here, including me, is defying the threats of economic depression to our way of life. So, in defiance, we went shopping, like there is no problem in the economy or in our financial situations. I hope our effort, however small it may have been, had made an impact and hope that the economy will improve soon.

What was it like in your town, city, or State this past Black Friday? Did you go shopping to take advantage of all of those great sales?

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