Why Shopping Malls Are So Awkward

It is a public place where everyone is free to be themselves because they don't know anyone around them especially in a different town and could care less what they think. This place is a mall the hangout place for teens and elderly folks on weekday mornings. I payed a visit to one of these last Sunday after serving mass at my church. Yes I'm an alter server and it's pretty enjoyable except for last Sunday when I was refilling the wine holder and I spilled it on my hand but most of it landed on the carpet. Thank God the wine was not spilled on the alter and thank God that the carpet was red. I had to wash my hand though because I was going to my aunts house with "B" and we planned to go to a mall near Springfield, MA.

My aunts can do two things very well when they get together with my mom and that is shop for hours and talk your ear off. Yes we all have a lot to catch up on but sitting at a restaurant already finished with your meal for about an hour and having to listen (because no one can get a word in edgewise) for at least four hours can be a pain. It was a nice outing but our tailbones hurt after a sitting and waiting for that long. After exploring the huge JC Penny store and going up the down escalator "B" and I decided to head out to the rest of the mall. Once we were done looking around the rest of the mall we went back to JC Penny and guess who was still on the first floor of the store in the same section? Yes, they were still looking at washcloths and things. What else was there to do then sit on the display couches in the store and people watch? "B" and I watched as people went by and we tried to guess their life story. Our first contender was a boy about six years of age who was picking his nose. At first he was all by himself but his parents, as interesting as their child, came along soon after. We decided that his mom was a reader and wanted the perfect child which was obviously not the booger picking six-year-old. But don't fear they had another child who was not even a year old this kid was destined to be a moma's boy. Their father was normal and there was sadly nothing to make up about him. Laughing about our assumptions because they were probably completely false we saw another couple coming through. This couple was so boisterous that we actually know the husband's name. Dale was trying to show his wife the products he saw on t.v. by saying "You come over here this on t.v.!" Dales wife replied, "Nu uh I ain't comin over there." Then Dale ran away off into the store. Dale's wife, "DALE! DALE!" And I'm not sure he was ever found. Poor Dale, he wanted to show something to his wife that probably meant a great deal to him because he saw it with his own eyes on t.v. and she wouldn't go over to see it. It's probably also the reason why he ran away.

Yelling throughout the store, now this is something I wish I had the courage to do, but I don't. The trip was quite an unusual one. But on the other hand when isn't a trip to somewhere different unusual?

That is all

-"M"