Act of Resistance

So this past Friday was the biggest shopping day of the year known as Black Friday or as I like to call it Epic Fail Day! So on Epic Fail Day since I was going to Mayfair anyway to pick up my contacts I thought this would be a great time to do my act of resistance. I made about twenty-five little squares of paper that had facts about the labor that goes into making the items that the consumers where buying. Also at the bottom of the little square in caps it said COMSUMERISM IS BAD!!!


So I tried to pass out some of the papers to people in the mall. That was very slow going. People didn’t care to take them and most people just ignored me completely or just gave me weird looks. I got a few people to take them but they probably just threw them away. I even tried to get my sister to help me on her break from work but she was all rawr. I don’t blame her, she did have to work on Epic Fail Day. I gave up after awhile just leaving the papers on a table.


My reason for calling it Epic Fail Day is because way do people go buy stuff just to buy it. I understand getting stuff on sale and saving money. But are you really saving money when you’re buying more things than you really need? So I think Black Friday just makes impulse buying worse and makes Americans look more like idiots.