Thanksgiving worked out fine. Jonno’s gumbo kicked ass. Elizabeth brought the best pate I’ve ever had. Despite the crowd, our house is still remarkably clean. And apart from venturing out last night to catch Varla‘s latest show, I’ve done little the last two days but catch up on sleep and make my way through a stack of unwatched dvds.
Not everyone’s holiday, however, has gone so smoothly.
“She got pushed down, and they walked over her like a herd of elephants,” said VanLester’s sister, Linda Ellzey. “I told them, ‘Stop stepping on my sister! She’s on the ground!”‘
“All they cared about was a stupid DVD player,” she said Saturday.
Ellzey said Wal-Mart officials called later Friday to ask about her sister, and the store apologized and offered to put a DVD player on hold for her [emphasis totally mine].
Wal-Mart Stores spokeswoman Karen Burk said she had never heard of a such a melee during a sale.
“We are very disappointed this happened,” Burk said. “We want her to come back as a shopper [mine again].”
—CNN
That, Ms. Morisette, is irony. Or farce. Or something.
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