Not me. 

Lafayette, Louisiana is already a bustling city every other day of the year.  Since Hurricane Katrina, the city's job growth is in the top national tier.  It shows in the construction going on at all four corners of the metropolis, in the clotted roadways, and naturally, in the extended lines at businesses.

For the past two years, I've had to tack on an extra twenty minutes to the cross-town commute, and running a handful of errands takes all day.

I'm no sucker for punishment.  Black Friday means facing Lafayette's usual high-stress commerce kicked up a few hundred notches by deep, one-day retail discounts.  Add to that shoppers' aggression, every customer for herself, making sure she's the one first in line to take advantage of 10-50%-off savings.

I don't like being pushed or shoved or honked at.  I don't like standing in line so long, I begin to feel woozy. 

And I don't like that feeling of raving lunacy if I spot the last  Elmo Live on the shelf and it's just me...and you.

You can have it.  I won't fight you for it.  As a matter of fact, having THE hottest toy isn't important to me.  And on Christmas Day, when my kids open their less popular, more easily acquired gifts I bought online at my leisure, the "hottest toy" wont be important to them either.

Call me a buyer pacifist.  I don't mind "missing out."  I'd rather let the deep discounts go instead of battle through the masses, hoping I get out in one piece.