I went to the mall yesterday

[rebelcowboysnb]

I enjoy going an making fun of the city people.(Chattanooga & Atlanta) None of it bothers me. Not even the traffic. No way I could live there though.

 

[call ducks]

ok we have a mall and a walmart 30 min a way but we are still a rural area. But mind you we don't have any of them fancy moving staris in our malll.... it's only one level high. Boy i hate them things when we go to a city... i look for regular stairs that don't move but i can't find them!!!!

 

[Matthew3590]

like dropping a penguin into a rain forest.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

 

[SarahBeth9394]

My hubby took me to the mall twice last year to do some Christmas shopping. I enjoyed going because we had a real purpose for being there. But the traffic in the city sucks and I don't miss it a bit.

 

[annie3001]

i dislike the mall too. go there twice a year. i shop thru amazon!!!

 

[EweSheep]

I hate going to the mall. the only ones close to my age gap are the elderly and middle aged folks doing their walks in the mornings before the mall opens to the public. However once the mall gets into the full swing, too many teenagers with some fashion minded sense would be overpopulating that I felt way out of place trying to find polo shirts and simple farmer jeans without all those embellishments. I would take FF and TSC anyday, anytime! And they are so overpriced and plenty of junk that don't last long. Who in the right mind would buy $100 dollar Nike shoes when you can get some canvas sneakers elsewhere for less than $20?

At any rate, I avoid the mall.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Gainesville, FL is not a big city by any means, but the town is the regional shopping hub for six or seven surrounding counties so we get folks coming from all over. I seldom ever go to our largest mall however unless I need something from Sears. The mall is about a million square feet in area yet to someone like me - a middle age male - there is nearly nothing in it that interests me.

A couple of weeks ago I took my wife's car to Sears to get tires. This always takes at least an hour so she wanted to look for clothes. Having nothing better to do I bought a lemonade and lapped the inside looking at what stores and kiosks there were. There is something on the order of 130-140 stores/kiosks in there and except for Sears, Penneys (very rarely), and maybe the Radio Shack (we have several elsewhere in town) there wasn't a blessed thing in the place that would have drawn me there. At least 90% of the entire place was over priced frippery and junk.

In the big cities it may be different but in Gainesville Florida the relevance of the shopping mall has faded it seems to everyone over traditional college age.

 

[FarmCoe]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

So DD waves and smiles and then says, "Oh my god those people have no life. All they do is shop. What point is there in a life of collecting stuff you can't afford?"

I seriously thought I was the only person on the planet who thought that way. Thank goodness for this thread

. I'm not the only "Country Bumkin" who things the mall is a waste of time!​