'Executive parking' prowess on Black Friday

The best strategy for Black Friday has always been just to stay home. I don’t quite understand the thought processes of those choose to camp out in front of a big retail store just so they can save a few bucks on a big-screen TV. It’s not like we’re camping outside in the crummy weather for Springsteen tickets for crying out loud.
Oddly enough though, the planets were temporarily aligned for me on Black Friday, and I found myself actually contemplating going out amongst the crazy-go-nuts shoppers and drivers. So much so that I actually needed a plan and this was a new thing for me because my Black Friday strategy up to this point was to take a daylong nap in the comfort of my own home.
So here was the plan: Leave for the mall at about 4 p.m. that afternoon — hoping that the really hardcore shoppers were worn out by then — and get back to the house by 6 p.m. to avoid those shoppers who had to work that day and were going shopping that evening.
And I must admit that strategy worked to perfection. Not only did we make it to the mall and three other places in the allotted time frame, we got what I like to call “executive parking” at all four stops.
Executive parking in this instance includes those parking spaces closest to the doors of the stores of which one wishes to frequent.
See, when I’m in the car by myself, I usually have to park in the back 40 of any parking lot I frequent. But when The Blonde Accountant is in the car, we seem to have this uncanny knack of getting the sweet parking spots.
In fact, the running gag over the years has been for me to say, “Hey, did you call ahead for your parking spot.” It happens almost every time.
I thought that her luck would run out on Black Friday given the overall craziness of the day, but it didn’t.
Naturally, given this newest — and impressive — evidence of her good fortune, The Blonde Accountant is now in charge of getting my lottery tickets.