Do you find it easier to get along with kids than grown-ups?

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That's very possible.

This waiting on line for Cabbage Patch Kids might have started "Black Friday." "Black Friday" is when people get lounge chairs, and wait outside the store all night before it opens. It's because they want to get real bargains.

Yes. I'd say both kids and elder people.
With teenagers or people at my age I feel totally out of place. Maybe because there's a pressure to fit in and be like them, while with very younger/older people I feel more comfortable with the idea of being different than them, though I kinda have an old mind in a 20s body, haha.

When I was a kid myself, I preferred the company of grownups. When I became a grownup I got on better with kids and other people younger than me, than with other grownups, and that still tends to be the case.

I seem to be shy and awkward around little kids. When I done a temporary work placement at a preschool with children aged 2-4, I didn't do too well. I kind of stood about, just watching what was going on and being rather afraid to speak to the kids, other than a few words. I got on with the staff OK, but I felt shy around the kids. I observed the staff and tried to copy how they showed their authority with the kids, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. If I witnessed a kid being cheeky or naughty or mean, I noticed it but didn't have the courage to speak up and tell them off. One time I got asked to read the kids a story but I felt so nervous about it, so I refused.

I don't know why I was so afraid to be authoratitive. But I do know that authority is my weakest social skill.