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Dork Diaries Book 14

Dork Diaries

#1 New York Times Bestselling Series

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December 2, 2014

BLACK FRIDAY MADNESS!!

Black Friday

OMG, Black Friday shoppers are CRAZY!!!

I’ve never hit the mall on the day after Thanksgiving before, and I didn’t realize just how NUTS people get when stuff goes on sale

When my mom asked if I wanted to go shopping with her and Brianna at 6:00AM on Friday, at first I was like, “Sure, if by ‘shopping’ you mean ‘drooling and dreaming’…because that’s WAY too early to function!”

Then she told me I could get an iPad mini for half off, and suddenly sleep seemed a whole lot less important!

I wasn’t really all that tired or annoyed when my alarm clock went off at 5:30, because I’d fallen into a DEEP food coma the night before around 9:00.

And there were actually birds chirping a cheery little song right outside my window (I bet they were psyched that they’re not turkeys!), so that was pretty cool.

The morning was off to a really awesome start, and it got even better when my mom asked, “Who wants a bacon egg and cheese biscuit from McDonalds?”

She’s usually all, “No fast food in this house! The only BIG MAC you can have is a big bowl of my super healthy macaroni, tuna and broccoli salad!”

But I guess the promise of a cheap weed whacker for her garden made her lighten up a little!

I assumed there wouldn’t be a ton of people out, since we left the house pretty early. I mean, I wasn’t the ONLY one who ate myself into a turkey-induced stupor on Thanksgiving. But, BOY, was I deluded!

When we got to the mall, it looked almost like it was an island surrounded by a sea of people. Seriously, there were that many shoppers outside!

You’d think Katy Perry was signing autographs in the entryway, because people were pushing, shoving…and some even roaring!

When we finally got inside, it was super hard to get into the stores we wanted to go to. Everywhere we went, there were lines out the door, and NO ONE was happy about that!

This one guy in the line at Best Buy was so frustrated that he was practically foaming at the mouth. And when an employee tried to get to the front of the line, he yelled, “No cutting! Let’s get him and show him what we do to cutters!”

I had a feeling he didn’t know anyone else in line, so I had NO IDEA what he thought “we” were going to do to people who cut in the line.” (Yell at them? Make them go to the back of the line? Tickle them?  Tie them up and roast them on over a campfire?)

But the worst part of the day was when we finally got into the toy store. That’s when Brianna COMPLETELY lost it.

It was SUPER crowded, so she yelled, “Alright, I’m going to count to three, and everyone better CLEAR OUT of the store by then OR ELSE!”

But of course nobody listened to a word she said, so she had a huge meltdown.

Since I’m a totally awesome big sister, I whispered to my mom, “Why don’t you take her to see Santa to cheer her up, and then I can buy her Christmas gift while you’re gone! Leave your keys, though…I’m gonna need them!”

I knew the line for Santa would be super long, so that would give me plenty of time to buy a Princess Sugar Plum bike that Brianna had been begging for.   It had pink streamers on the handlebars and a Princess Sugar Plum picture on the basket.

The best part was that I could totally afford the bike because it was on sale for 75% OFF the regular price!!  SQUEEEEE!!   My plan was to put it in the trunk before Brianna saw it, then sneak it in the house, wrap it, and put it under the Christmas tree. It was going to be the BEST present EVER!!

After 30 long minutes, I finally made it to the front of the line to check out and pay for the bike. I was super relieved to be SO close to leaving that KA-RAY-ZEE  toy store MADNESS!!

But right before the lady at the cash register could ring up the bike, this cute little girl old came out of nowhere, hopped on it, and started riding it all around the store screaming, “I LOOOVE Princess Sugar Plum!!!”

Security chased her down and I got it back, but still, the whole thing was INSANE!

Have you ever gone shopping on Black Friday before? What was it like for you? And did you get anything good??

Category: My Diary nikki

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  1. Giggle wiggle says

    December 9, 2014 at 11:57 am

    OMG IT’S SO WEIRD THAT EVERYONE IS CROWDED

  2. NIKKI says

    December 9, 2014 at 11:02 am

    🙂

  3. Dorkgirl518 says

    December 8, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    BLACK FRIDAY PEOPLE ARE NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Once it was Black Friday and people cleaned out the store faster than my janitor cleans my school:) lol omg

  4. Katniss Everdeen says

    December 8, 2014 at 7:59 pm

    I sort of got a black friday discount at a really rare place to get a discount we probaly all know that the place was Walt Disney World It was thanksgiving and my family decided to go to Downtown Disney and so we went to shop called The Wide World of Disney which was HUGE! And we were wondering around when my mom told me that if I found cheap earrings I could buy them and so I saw this Mickey mouse earrings and they were $5.99 and that was very rare because you usally get them for like 15-20 bucks but it was great! And the earrings were adorable maybe too adorable!

  5. DORKY says

    December 8, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    i loveddddddddd black friday! the sales were so cheap! like from $100 to $50!!!!!!!! cant wait for next year 😀

  6. SkaiJackson says

    December 8, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    OMG! I feel your pain…Black Friday-Everything is on sale!People actually CAMP OUT in front of stores 1 or 2 days before Black Friday.My Black Friday Experience:
    My sister and mom and I went to go to the MALL on Black Friday.Worst idea ever!People were yelling at the police officers and employees at different stores because…they wanted to BUY something and get on to the NEXT STORE!So,we left and went to Toys ‘R’ Us.(We wanted to do some Christmas shopping)That store’s line went outside.At least it was moving fast…we finally did all the Christmas shopping we needed.This was at at least 4:00 a.m..Can you believe it?People were still coming in and out of stores at MIDNIGHT.There was a lot of traffic late at night.We left Toys ‘R’ Us at around 12:00 noon.Oh mi gosh that was THE most HORRIBLE Black Friday experience ever!Anybody agree with my story and how its a HORRIBLE experience?Please respond if you do!

  7. luz says

    December 8, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    I’ve never been there

  8. Grace Hite says

    December 8, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    Omg That is totally INSANE!

  9. Dorkaliciously Dorky says

    December 8, 2014 at 3:34 pm

    I have never gone shopping on Black Friday, and if I did, I would go shopping online!

  10. Katniss Everdeen says

    December 8, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    What happened to the other comments and what happened to Brianna

  11. Bianca's brownies says

    December 8, 2014 at 3:45 am

    hey nikki, I understand your black friday shopping dilemma. For us we buy our stuff in jaya grocer, I know it may sound boring but they have some tasty food there and you can eat and shop there cause there’s a restaurant and they have these cute diy candy things from japan that you can buy

  12. HashtaggerTextTime says

    December 7, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    OMG. My mom doesn’t do black Fridays because of the HUGE crowds.

    • Katniss Everdeen says

      December 8, 2014 at 3:26 pm

      Neither does mine

  13. Dork awesomeness Branikki says

    December 7, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    Lol! I’ve been black Friday shopping. Once I got a table and a kid just ran up to me and took it out of my hands. It’s like a zombie apocalypse in the store. Nikki you’ve inspired me so much I’m writing a diary book about ME!

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