Monday, November 06, 2006
I walked through the saddest mall on earth on the way home today (I was looking for a bookstore - I didn't remember having seen one, but hope springs eternal. Sadly, it is also eternally disappointed.) and there are Christmas decorations up all over the place.
These did not add a lovely, festive air to the mall. Instead, they look like sad, desperate, cheap, tawdry crap, drooping already in the depressed miasma that is the air in there. Ugh. It's so horrible. And yet even in this horrible, depressed (economically any otherwise) mall, there are those goddamn booths set up in the middle of the hallway, with salespeople that try to grab you and harass you and spray stuff on you. Blech.
I would stop going in there, but I'm sickly fascinated.
These did not add a lovely, festive air to the mall. Instead, they look like sad, desperate, cheap, tawdry crap, drooping already in the depressed miasma that is the air in there. Ugh. It's so horrible. And yet even in this horrible, depressed (economically any otherwise) mall, there are those goddamn booths set up in the middle of the hallway, with salespeople that try to grab you and harass you and spray stuff on you. Blech.
I would stop going in there, but I'm sickly fascinated.
2 Comments:
Been seeing the same cheap, tawdry Christmas crap on people's lawns and porches. Even more depressing when there's no snow on the ground yet.
Jay
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9:12 a.m.
You must be referring to the city center downtown, now called The Rainbow Center...no wonder people don't go there. It's now 9 days until Christmas, and it's still depressing down there. And of course, most places downtown, you have to pay for parking. There's a nice festive touch.
