27 thoughts on “Yeah, Fuck Your Black Friday Bullshit”

  3. I’m envious Phil! Hope you were able to get one of those tryptophan naps in while your off.

    Where did you hide the Trophy.

  4. Your shop has been an inspiration for me while I am building my shop. I only have 2 stack toolboxes and a standalone toolbox, but I have 8 sheets of pegboard on the wall. Three has specialty tools on the wall and the other 5 have (nails, nuts, bolts, and screws) bins, consumables, high use parts, mild chemicals, and pretty much anything else you can hang on the wall including a well used timing gun that I have to use every 3 months with the 74 Stingray to keep it getting above 15 mpg. Thanks again.

    • If you have to keep setting the timing you might want to take the cover off of the timing chain and check the gears and chain for excessive wear/slop. Then pull and check the distributor…

      • You get over 15 mpg? In a Vette Stingray? Dayum, that’s not bad. Best my Delta 88 ragtop gets is about 12…

        • The 195Hp engine now wears Dart heads, Holley DP, mouse motor cam, and headers. I also swapped out the 4:11 for a 3.73 and the Rock Crusher for a TKO. If I put my foot into it the mileage will drop to 10 easily. The extra Hp makes the Stingray a handful so I drive it with kid gloves. A near redline gearshift in 2nd and 3rd will spin the rear tires where if you are not completely strait the back end will try to outrun the front end.

      • A 74 still has points. The timing light is a required part of a tune-up. Usually there is little to no adjustment.

  5. My most pressing thing I have to do today is see why the circuit to my garage quit, I suspect the GFCI decided it has had enough…
    Note the time I have posted it. I’ll get A Round Tuit. Maybe.

  6. I will simply ask the question everyone is too shy to ask:
    When was the last time you seen the floor in that shop?

    • I think his reveal the floor pictures were last year or early this year, Grumpy, it has been much worse.

      • My CDO could never handle it.

        I’m the guy who thought the letters in the alphabet are arranged in the wrong order…… All letters which are delineated with only straight lines are grouped first, with straight and curved grouped second and letters with no straight lines are last.
        Same thing with numbers.

        I’m much better now.

  7. Yeah, Fuck Black Friday.
    Maybe if it was White Friday?……
    (nope, I’m not going out to spend money I don’t have for things I don’t need that were priced below the price they have now two weeks ago)

    • Isn’t Black Friday any day when the reparations people liberate products from store shelves?

    • My Arlo security cameras are getting old and now the subscription for them to be available on the web for 30 days has gone up from ~$150 last year to $216 per year if I let it auto-renew in January. So I was shopping for some new Ring cameras to retire the Arlo cameras. Arlo and Home depot both had the outdoor 2K model for $59 the beginning of the week, yesterday on their Black Friday sale, they are $30 more, jacked them up from $59 to $89 for the BF sale.

  9. I haven’t set foot inside a store – save for maybe a grocery store once or twice – on black Friday in the decades since I quit my first job working in retail. I made myself a promise I’d never find myself inside a Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Etc., again after a few years of having to be there (on the wrong side of the counter) on the day after Thanksgiving.

    Those years in retail also kind of ruined Christmas for me for quite a while, until I was away from that grind for a few years and had buried most of the cynicism and resentment I’d gained from working as a retail grunt over multiple Christmas seasons. Now I look at the stupid spectacle of it all (if I happen to catch reports on tv or online) and pity the damned fools who get suckered into the whole thing. It really is the ultimate perversion and final boss of runaway consumerism.

    I will say that black Friday looks to have lost much of its import and significance in the last decade, due to a combination of online shopping displacing so much in person buying at store locations, and what I sense is a growing amount of weariness and disgust amongst the public to continue participating in the whole pathetic, overblown circus.

    Back when I was in the retail biz, it was a huge event. With every year buzzing about some “must have” toy, or new video game (that was out of stock and backordered until mid January by the weekend after Thanksgiving, anyway). This trend started with cabbage patch kids in the early 80’s (which I was old enough to take notice of, as my mom fought hordes of idiots to get one for my sister in ’83), and it kept going until probably around 2008-10, at least to my perception. Remember that stupid fuckin’ Furby? Heh, yeah that was a real winner.

    Thankfully, that no longer seems to be the case, not to the same level of urgency it used to evoke, anyway.

  10. My kind of place !

    Except mine is stacks of beekeeping equipment, plus radial arm / table saw and assembly benches.

  11. I went to the grocery as is my habit on Friday. I got there around 8:15, did my shopping and was on the way out the door by 8:45. That store is in a small mall which has a variety of stores, one is a Hobby Lobby at the opposite end of the building the grocery store in it. As I looked towards the other end before crossing the road on front of the grocery store, I see about 50 people lined up to get into the Hobby Lobby. I was a little taken aback. It was the first time I’d seen a line outside of a store ever on Black Friday.

    Also, another first. I saw my first tranny in the wild at the grocery store checkout. He/she/its name, Christina; displayed on the badge all store employees are required to wear, is clearly a man with a large belly and what I assume are fake tits, fake eye lashes, what I will term clown make up including lip stick and rouge, dangley ear rings and a simpering demeanor, with a clear 5 o’clock shadow.

    It was all I could do to keep from laughing hysterically while it was bagging my groceries.

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