When we arrived at Customs in San Francisco we were, as normal, asked what the purpose of our trip was. I told the official we had come to share Thanks Giving with our friends. He responded by asking if we were also there for Black Friday. This was a term I had not heard off and only associated similar terms with stock market crashes etc.
It turns out to be a very different meaning.
It is the sales held the day after Thanks Giving. Infact, some stores were opening at 9pm & 10pm on the day of Thanks Giving.
On our journey home after our Thanks Giving meal, which I shall write of another time, we called by the local Retail Outlets . It was 9.30pm and the car park was full, not an available place to be seen. Fortunately we were only driving through, not looking to park. There were many queues outside stores due to open at 10pm and many of the signs in the store windows had anything upto 75% reductions advertised.
We would visit the sales before we left but at a calmer time.
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