My daughter recently had a performance at a nearby mall, and so my older son and I took her there. She had to be there half an hour before the performance was to start, so we found ourselves with some time to kill. But we were in the mall, so that should be easy, right? El wrongo mucho! I don’t know if this typical of all malls, or just ours, but with the exception of a few sports paraphenalia stores, cellphone stores, and a toy store, there was nothing there to interest the male half of the species. It was, by and large, wall-to-wall clothing, make-up, accessory, salons, and spas.
Even the bookstore that once was there is no more!
We combed every square inch of that toy store. It was small, and half an hour was more than adequate to the task. We wandered around the rest of the mall for a while, trying to find something to interest us, but since we weren’t there to eat, we were out of options. We went back to where the performance was to take place and we waited.
Once the show started I did find one more option that might have kept us entertained a while longer: Yankee Candle. I do enjoy smelling candles, although the atmosphere within a Yankee Candle store is at least 20% parafin and 60% scent, and I can’t stay there long without getting woozy. But seriously, other than that the most exciting thing to look at was the cookware in JCPenney…!
With the death of record and video stores is there anything to attract boys to malls, except for food courts and girls? Is this typical these days, or is my mall just seriously lame?
I don’t pay that much attention to the mall, but the one in Provo still has a bookstore at least. I only go there to eat at Red Robin or occasionally watch a movie…
I avoid malls as a general rule, though I was at least willing to brave it when there was a book store, a secondary location for Eborn Books in downtown SLC (which is Xanadu if there ever was one). But now? I’m clearly not their target demographic–unless you consider Barnes & Noble to be a part of it, which it technically is, though it’s almost literally over the river and through the woods on the outskirts of the area.
I think that your experience was atypical. Although, the mall has almost always been house ware heavy to begin with … as i recollect. I really don’t go to the mall anyway, these days.
It’s malls illusions I recall. I really don’t know malls at all.