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…without stepping inside a mall.
I went more than three years – from October, 2000 to December, 2003 without stepping foot inside a mall. (And the only reason I went in 2000 was to pick up a wedding present for my sister. Before that it was probably sometime in 1999.)
But last week, I broke that longstanding feat, when I drove up to Ann Arbor to see a movie that was playing at Briarwood Mall and got there early to get something to eat.
The mall was the only place playing this movie in the entire region, so I had no choice. But I guess it’s my fault for arriving hungry. (I could should have stopped somewhere off mall property, even a fast food joint, just to keep the streak going with exceptions made for movies). So now the streak must start over again.
And if you think that things are any better now than they were in 2000, think again All the things that kept me out in 2000 and earlier were 10 times worse: The annoying shoppers, the cracker-barrel ambiance, the general fakeness, the totem consumer goods, the putrid stink of pefume, more big conglomerates instead of local stores, the yuppie boutiques, etc. Worst of all, people were talking on cell phones everywhere (a relative rarity back in 2000). I even saw some snotty teenaged girls in f-me pumps carrying designer cell phones attached to their backpacks. It took real restraint on my person to keep from telling them how utterly retarded they looked.
And you know what happened? The movie that I went to see, opened up in Toledo the very next week. To me, that was the unkindest cut of all.
I went more than three years – from October, 2000 to December, 2003 without stepping foot inside a mall. (And the only reason I went in 2000 was to pick up a wedding present for my sister. Before that it was probably sometime in 1999.)
But last week, I broke that longstanding feat, when I drove up to Ann Arbor to see a movie that was playing at Briarwood Mall and got there early to get something to eat.
The mall was the only place playing this movie in the entire region, so I had no choice. But I guess it’s my fault for arriving hungry. (I could should have stopped somewhere off mall property, even a fast food joint, just to keep the streak going with exceptions made for movies). So now the streak must start over again.
And if you think that things are any better now than they were in 2000, think again All the things that kept me out in 2000 and earlier were 10 times worse: The annoying shoppers, the cracker-barrel ambiance, the general fakeness, the totem consumer goods, the putrid stink of pefume, more big conglomerates instead of local stores, the yuppie boutiques, etc. Worst of all, people were talking on cell phones everywhere (a relative rarity back in 2000). I even saw some snotty teenaged girls in f-me pumps carrying designer cell phones attached to their backpacks. It took real restraint on my person to keep from telling them how utterly retarded they looked.
And you know what happened? The movie that I went to see, opened up in Toledo the very next week. To me, that was the unkindest cut of all.
