2010. Standing in line at a Fry’s in my city. Myself, older brother, younger sister, and cousin. Cousin is freshly immigrated from Mexico. Cousin sends most of his earnings back to Mexico to help his family. Cousin saw a nice (honestly wasn’t, but it was in his price range) tablet. We waited outside Fry’s from 5 pm until they opened on Black Friday. We ran to the back along with the heard of animals going towards our prize . We rastled with these…things…trying to find a place in a ever growing line.

We finally got in line and waited again. He was going to get his gift. He finally got his tablet. Paid for it. He was excited, so he ran outside ecstatic . Why you may ask? He lived in poverty for most , if not , all his life prior to coming to the States. The nicest thing he had prior to this was a SNES (during the PS3 era ). So, to him , getting this was a major deal.

So, we look around inside a bit before going outside to meet him. When we walked outside, he was running up to us…bleeding. We panicked and asked wtf happened. Some guys saw him running outside with his tablet excited and jumped him. No one helped (of course who would when the deals are going on). So, he got robbed of his only taste of modern techonlogy.

Naturally, we wanted to help. After we made sure he was okay, we asked him how much money he had left. Maybe we can scrounge up our funds together and get a new tablet (or pay a scalper’s fee if we were lucky). He rummaged his pockets and counted up his cash. We asked how much more he needed. He looked us dead in the eyes and said “Ima need about treefiddy”.

It was about this time , i noticed that our cousin was actually a 500 feet tall plesiosaurus from the Jurassic period. The money he had rummaged were just old worn out shells from the bottom of the deep.