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Bargain Hunting on Bleak Friday
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Zaterka spends most Thanksgivings with his sister and brother-in-law in Falls Church and has hit Black Friday sales for a decade. He said he appreciated the personal service this morning -- and the $1,000 gift card he won to pay for it all -- but a part of him wished he were outside waiting with the masses.
"I'm gonna miss that," he said. He likes the adrenaline rush of wondering, "Am I gonna get something? Am I not? I always set my expectations low."
But not everybody feels the same way.
For the uninitiated, the long lines, big crowds and early start can make Black Friday seem bleak, no matter what the deals. Roommates and Black Friday novices Jay Buller and Victor Jaramillo, both 27 and of the District, said they had second thoughts yesterday morning when Buller's girlfriend woke them before dawn to head to Best Buy.
"There's always this, 'I'm not sure it's a good idea,' " Jaramillo said.
"There's always that moment," Buller added.
But his girlfriend, Laura Rashedi, 25, of Atlanta prevailed.
"I think it's fun," she said. "It's like the first day that you see people get out and holiday shop."
Staff writers V. Dion Haynes, Cecilia Kang, Michael S. Rosenwald and Annys Shin contributed to this report.
