Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the good old US of A (America).
A date that is supposed to celebrate the first feast in the new world by the
English Pilgrims with their hosts, some Native Americans
(Indians or as the Canadians refer to as Aborigines).
The holiday has changed in tradition over the years to include a foot ball game or two,
the Macy Thanksgiving Day parade in order to bring shoppers into Macys Department stores,
family reunions and of course lots of food and beer.
The day after gorging our selves with tons of turkey, mashed potatoes, yams,
dressing with lots of gravy, veggies, pies, ice cream, cakes, and other fattening stuff,
we follow up with what they call Black Friday and of course going on yet another diet.
Tomorrow's cartoon will be about Black Friday.
All the demented things that shoppers do to each other in order to obtain
the best price on that perfect thing, for that special someone, for Christmas.
Of course these days Black Friday is no longer the norm because the retail stores
are now days open on Thanksgiving day. But tradition is still important
and so we still call the day after Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday.
All this is of course followed up by Cyber Monday.
Just because shoppers are now back at work does not mean they can't continue to shop,
they just do it on the computer where they work and shop on line for that special thing,
for that special person for Christmas or Hanukkah.
Christmas is of course,
is followed by returning all those special gift back to the store,
by that special person who received the gift,
in order to get the special thing that special person really wanted.
All this is what
we call American Tradition.
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