Witness In Awe The Orgy Of Greed And Thrift

As some know today was the bank holiday(stat. Holiday) known as Family Day. To my knowledge it's only recognized in Alberta. Well last week me and my mom where driving past the Value Village near our house when we noticed that a sign advertising a 50% off sale. So we decided to check it out. Not like we had much else to do. We were not partaking in any of that silly family bonding junk. And apparently no one else was either. After spending about 15 minutes trying to find a place to park we spent the next two hours stuck in a small barn-like structure with about five hundred angry irritated thrift shoppers. Don't get me wrong I love VV and thrift store shopping in general and I never really understood the snobbery that went hand in hand with people who thought it was shopping for the lowest of the low. Which I guess I could be seen as such being that my family falls into the lower tax brackets. (Sorry that's the embittered poor girl peaking through.) But after spending a total of three long hours stuck in this venture with people giving me dirty looks and hitting me with their carts I am hard pressed to remember why I liked shopping there in the first place. Three hellish hours and all I got out of it was a pair of shoes for $1.50, a back full of bruises and a small glimpse of the fast falling demise of society. Hip Hip Hurray for consumerism!