I too made the phone calls the day before the sale. My husband and I are truckers, so I was able to plan my attack for a laptop. After calling several stores along our route, I settled for the walmart at Grants, N.M. They had only 8 laptops in stock, but the towns population is small. We steered the semi into the parking lot at 3:30 a.m. A cold front had moved in and the outside temp was 21 degrees. I bundled up in every warm piece of clothing I could find and hurried to the line which was 10 deep. I was thinking ok, 8 laptops and I am tenth in line…odds are looking pretty good here.

As the clock ticked to 4:30 the line was clear to the end of the parking lot. A man and woman in front of me had been making phone calls and of coarse all their sleepy headed friends showed up 15 minutes before the door opened. Yes, you guessed it….now I was # 19 in line. Now normaly I would have caused a rukus and insisted their frineds go to the back of the line. But with me being out of my element, I decided it best to beat them a different way.

The gossip in the line was….this walmart had scattered the bargains thru-out the store. So, findng the laptops first was going to be a stroke of luck. I figured they were sure to keep the computers close to the electronics department so they could keep an eye on them. So my plan was to head straight for electronics…it would be my only chance.

This walmart has only one set of entrance doors, so when it opened we were like a heard of buffalo. Everyone was nice…no pushing, no shoving. I had decided I would not bother with a shopping cart…it would slow me down too much. My plan was to grab everything I wanted, and drag it to the front if need be…LOL . As soon as my feet hit the tiled floor, I was off like a streak of lightning…Considering I am short and pretty much round, I was amazed how quickly I reached the back corner to electronics. I did a quick scan and no computers. I thought, ah geez. I happened to glance to my right side and low and behold I was standing right next to the laptops. I had made it…I was the first to reach them. I grabbed one and held on tight. It didn’t occur to me at the time, but I could have had all 8 if I had wanted them…this walmart did not have a limit on any of the sale items. Later I found out my sister who lives in Missouri was not able to get one, so I wished I had grabbed at least two.

I wandered around the store and found the portable dvd players and carrying cases for all the grandkids, the gameboy for my husband, the flat panel tv for the truck, and so on. My only thought was….next time I’m taking a huge plastic bag with me because trying to getn all that stuff to the checkout was a chore in itself.

Our Walmart had about 20 I stood in line for 3 hours to get one… not too bad

Great laptop !