From the Word of the Day:
melee \MAY-lay; may-LAY\, noun:
1. A fight or hand-to-hand struggle in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass.
2. A confused conflict or mingling.
I've been in those, both definitions, 1 & 2. . The last time was the day after Thanksgiving sale at Wal-Mart a few years back. Either definition suited that particular trip.
Never again. The horror...the horror.
4 comments:
It could also describe one time when I got lucky on my birthday, 5/29, too.
A "may lay".
My definition of melee is the traffic on I-35 coming and going to work each day here in the Dallas area. I'd rather do hand to hand combat than drive in that mess.
I'm with you on the day after Thsnksgiving shopping...to any retail store not just Walmat.
Oh and Driving into Boston on any of the major highways, Rte 1, 93 or the Mass Pike used to be a melee. WE used to consider driving down there a contact sport. But the Big dig has eased that quite a bit. I actually don't mind driving in the city anymore. The pundets can slam the "Big Dig" as a boondoggle, as pork or as a failure but I know it makes a huge difference, in a postive way, getting into and around Boston. That goes for on foot too. Taking all that highway traffic off the streets in town makes it a much more enjoyable city.
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