Reply #21: hate the mall

[zigster]

Everytime I go to the mall, I feel so out of place. When I go to the mall, I just get in and out as fast as I can. I wear my scruffy tshirt, scruffy jeans, and well worn sneakers and unshaven face. And everyone there seems so better dressed than me. Not that anyone wears suits and ties to the mall, but they wear something resembling the latest fashions and everyone is so well groomed. It's like people go out of their way to dress up just top go to the mall.

Hey, people. Its just a bunch of overpriced stores. You dont have to put on an impression.

And when I go inside a store to actually buy something (I never go to a mall to just walk around. I go to buy something, because I need to not because I want to, or I dont go at all), thanks to my scruffy looks, I'm the one that store security follows around. I notice them out of the corner of my eye. Sometimes they'll stand a short distance away from me. Following me around as I look for what I want. Other times they're right on top of me, pretending to be another customer. This happened to me at the bookstore at the mall. As I was browsing from book to book, I couldnt help but notice the tall behemoth standing righr beside me, pretending to have his nose buried in a book. Only I noticed that, while I had gone through book after book, he hadnt turned the pages of the book he held. Just kept pretending to be reading that book. Real subtle there.