After at least 15 years of not shopping on Black Friday, I got up at 1:30 and left the house at 2:00 AM with my daughter. We went to a air base about an hour away, stood in line for an hour before the store opened at 4:00. About 30 minutes before the doors opened, an employee came down the line asking what we were looking for - he gave out tickets for the big special items that they had limited numbers of so there was no competition (pushing, shoving or fights) for those things. Luckily my daughter got what she was looking for at a huge discount (she paid less than 1/3 the regular price)...the guy who got in line about 10 minutes behind us and wanted the same item wasn't so lucky. Everyone was very civilized and polite...made for a lovely day with my daughter and we were home (ready for a nap) by noon. We even went to Wal-Mart and it wasn't crazy there either!