Musing in Manhattan

This morning my mom talked me into taking my boys to BJs to do some very necessary food shopping—my cabinets were so bare they echoed when you screamed ANYTHING IN THERE????   My eldest was crabby but I dragged him out anyway and found that Sunrise Highway was a bit crowded but not terrible.  The entrance into the Green Acres Mall, Wallmart, and BJs shopping area, however, were horrendous.  This didn’t stop us though, we were out so we figured we would see how bad BJs was.  Who the heck goes grocery shopping the day after Thanksgiving anyway?  So we inched our way through the road that takes you around the back of Green Acres and I noticed that Walmart was relatively bare in its parking lot.  My mother said–Wow, Walmart is empty, I guess no one really is food shopping.  I said:  Walmart should be packed though—-they have more than food and everyone packs into Walmart on a regular day.  Why is it so empty?   We inched our way further toward BJs and found that cops were stearing everyone away from the entrance to Walmart and Home Depot and a few of the other stores.  I didn’t really think much of it though.  We got into the lot of BJs found lots of spots and said:  “What the heck lets just get it all over with”.  A few rows into shopping (in an empty BJs!!!) my little one ran infront of our wagon and I said: ”Buddy, you can’t run in-front of the wagon like that, you’ll get squished!”   As I said this, an older woman said:  “Oh my, did you hear what happened this morning in Walmart?”  OF course we said:  “WHAT?”   She proceeded to tell us that when the security officer opened the doors to Walmart this morning the crowd rushed in pushing the doors off the hinges as the man was opening the lock and they trampled over him and he was killed.  AND a pregnant woman was also knocked over and her water broke and she too had to be rushed to the hospital.  TRAGIC!!!  My mother and I stood there in disbelief and we began to talk about how people have just lost the true meaning of Christmas.  I thought to myself, forget about the meaning of Christmas, what about the meaning of humanity.  It is absolutely disgusting what happened today.  I can not believe that people could be so insane as to converge on a store like that.  FOR WHAT?   It is just disgusting.  By Two O’clock the doors to that particular store were open for business again.  IT IS DISGUSTING –ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING that they opened the doors back up.  That store should have stayed closed out of respect for the man that died there today.  That poor man’s family–how awful.   On the news tonight they announced that even as the paramedics were doing CPR on the man people were still shoving past.  What a disgrace.

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