One of the two groups pictured here can be considered, on this day after Thanksgiving, the survivors. Which one depends on one’s point of view. My money is on the turkeys.
PHOTO BY WILLIAM M. DOWD
While humans in our shopaholic nation refer to the day after Thanksgiving as Black Friday, in the turkey universe it’s Glorious Friday.
Yesterday was Black Thursday for thousands of them, so the ones still strutting around today and gorging themselves on food we’ve put out for much smaller examples of birddom are feeling pretty good to have survived for at least one more year.
The reason I do not see today’s bargain-intoxicated shoppers — some of whom were up since the wee hours waiting on line for those 4 and 5 a.m. door-opening bargains they probably didn’t need — as survivors is that many of them also will be out at the malls and big box stores on Black Saturday and Black Sunday repeating today’s consumer madness, even in the face of dire weather predictions for the weekend.
The turkeys, meanwhile, will be relaxing and eating berries and pumpkins seeds in relative comfort.
Turkeys are not birdbrains.
(Posted 11/23/07)
William M. Dowd is a Capital Region writer and photographers who specializes in food, drink and destinations at Dowd’s Guides.