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General Discussions => Spunk => Topic started by: FrankZappa on May 01, 2007, 06:44:28 pm
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yea, I don\'t mind the lines if I know what I\'m getting, like a good black friday morning.
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i make it a point to go to the mall on christmas eve every year, it\'s such a wonderful experience, and I think everyone should try it at least once (haven\'t been able to do it the last couple years though). i remember one year we sat in the meriden mall\'s parking lot for 2.5 hours, just trying to get out of the lot, it was absolutely hilarious and entertaining (if you make it such, if you are there with the mindset of getting in and out, well, not for you, but if you are expecting it to be the fiasco that it is, it\'s quite awesome).
other than the pre christmas fiasco that i enjoy so much (and we usually don\'t buy anything), the only time I go to the mall is to go to Dick\'s Sporting Goods, which conveniently has it\'s own little parking garage and entrance, so it\'s not like going to the mall at all.
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y\'know i really dont like the mall either but i never really thought about it. the only time i go there is if someone asks me to meet them there, usually another mom with little kids and i dont want to feel like the weirdo that doesnt love the mall. i guess my daughter is becoming *that age* too because she absolutely begs to go there, so it\'s a rare once in a while reward type thing.
then again ... i am a little weird:biggrin: i shop at the smallest grocery stores i can find, early in the morning or late at night to avoid the overwhelm. otherwise i end up getting frustrated and leaving with nothing but broccoli and paper towels or 2 other such random items not conducive to a healthy supper.
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malls are outrageous! and i avoid them at all costs. from a shopping point of view, it is just way too overwhelming for me. one of the last times i was in a mall i was harassed by one of those cell phone boutique people...fucker just wouldn\'t leave me alone until i finally raised my voice and gave him the death stare. another time (around christmas, which of course is the worst time to go) i was in baby gap for one of my cousins. i was standing in an isle looking at an outfit and all of a sudden i got shoved out of the isle by 3 bumbling idiots! on top of all the morons you have to deal with the prices of things are sky high. you walk into one store and pay $40 (minimum) for a pair of pants with holes in them! Thanks, but i like to put my own holes in my jeans through wear and tear.
speaking from a working point of view (as i worked at victoria\'s secret for about a month), holy hell! the women that walked into that store are lucky i was trying to keep this job because i so wanted to knock some teeth out! i had one woman arguing with me that the product doesn\'t work...i just wanted to say, "well stop going to the food court and start exercising you lazy ****, and leave me alone!" it\'s not like i\'m the person making this ****, i was just letting her into a fitting room. and then you got the guys...they\'re as useless as **** on bulls when they go into v.s. they ask you for help, you ask what size, and they can\'t even describe the physique of the woman to you.
then you get to the parking lot! so many times i\'ve been nearly run-down...i mean, i\'m not that small where you can\'t see me over your bumper! and then you have the stalkers...you know who you are...following people to their spot. it makes me feel so awkward any time someone does that to me. plus you have the people that don\'t know if they want to stop or go. or the freakin\' speed demons...course i fall into that category every now and then.
so yeah, all in all, i hate malls!
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I couldn\'t agree more with what you say. As a person who owns a small engraving business in a mall i spend around 50 hrs a week here. The money is ok, even though those fuckers Things Remembered drive us out of every mall we go to, but the people are horrendous. Trust me, there is nothing worse than over-caffeinated soccer moms who have nothing better to do than to give me **** about the most mundane bullshit. My malls are in Queens and Paramus NJ and trust me, i would rather have the 30% of my clientele that can\'t speak a lick of english struggling to put sentences together on a plaque than those stupid fuckin house wives. The next middle aged woman that asks me why her order can\'t be done quicker than 20 mins is getting suplexed.
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hahaha very understandable.
i have gone from being a little westchester, ny mallrat girl to honestly only going when i actually need to. i would be lying if i said i hated the mall, but i definitely no longer love it the way i used to. i guess that being broke and in college has a lot to do with that as well...
The one redeeming factor of The Westchester (Mall) is all the MILF action. I know of no other mall with so many HOT moms / woman roaming around spending other peoples money.
:P
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id have to say on a normal day im indifferent. when im in a bad mood, hate it. when im in a really good mood, i love everywhere, including the mall. i do almost all of my shopping online now, though. ill go to the mall to try on shoes to make sure theyre the right size before i order em. i understand the beef.
oh, and although buying cd\'s at FYE may give you instant gratification, it really burns a whole in the wallet. all yous out there that still dodge yourmusic.com are fools. and i mean that, fools. 2 Songs In The Key of Life on yourmusic for the price of 1 at FYE. think about it.
It wasn\'t planned. I generally buy everything online. I actually was going to get some lunch and noticed the FYE on my way. So I stopped and had instant gratification fun. The prices were decent to expensive. A lot of the older stuff i got was marked down to 9.99 so it wasn\'t so bad.
When I buy online I tend to load up my cart and then not actually buy anything (music wise anyway same with dvds) I guess I loose my motivation to buy stuff when it is out of hand. Which is probably a good thing
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I can\'t wait for the Breakfast to start covering either No Speak No Slave or My Morning Song.
Then maybe the southern states will start giving this band some **** respect. (no offense to our southern .infoers)
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id have to say on a normal day im indifferent. when im in a bad mood, hate it. when im in a really good mood, i love everywhere, including the mall. i do almost all of my shopping online now, though. ill go to the mall to try on shoes to make sure theyre the right size before i order em. i understand the beef.
oh, and although buying cd\'s at FYE may give you instant gratification, it really burns a whole in the wallet. all yous out there that still dodge yourmusic.com are fools. and i mean that, fools. 2 Songs In The Key of Life on yourmusic for the price of 1 at FYE. think about it.
buying new releases at best buy the first week=same price with shipping and handling I would have paid at amazon. I don\'t purchase music enough for a site like yourmusic to work for me.
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im a fan of the food court/hotties..
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I get 95% of my paid for music from yourmusic.com. Even with the recent $1.00 price jump, it can\'t be beat. And yeah...I fuckin\' HATE malls with a passion!!
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id have to say on a normal day im indifferent. when im in a bad mood, hate it. when im in a really good mood, i love everywhere, including the mall. i do almost all of my shopping online now, though. ill go to the mall to try on shoes to make sure theyre the right size before i order em. i understand the beef.
oh, and although buying cd\'s at FYE may give you instant gratification, it really burns a whole in the wallet. all yous out there that still dodge yourmusic.com are fools. and i mean that, fools. 2 Songs In The Key of Life on yourmusic for the price of 1 at FYE. think about it.
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Seriously. I **** hate the mall.
:thunderous applause:
I hate shopping period. Which is why whenever I am not at work I could be mistaken for a homeless guy with my sick fashion sense.
The main thing with the mall is all the people there are just wasting time. They\'re in way and they\'re everywhere.
Also what I find frustrating to no end is those little mall maps by the entrance are of no use to me b/c the names of the stores rarely indicate what they sell.
This is what I got:
Sublime - Sublime
Blood Sweat And Tears - The extended Versions (live)
Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Beck - Mutations
Iron Maiden - Peace of Mind
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (24 bit remastered)
Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full
Radiohead - OK computer
I could have spent so much more but was running out of time. Sure was fun tho
You got some great CD\'s. Every one a winner. I\'m way due for a run like this. All I\'ve got is empty cases. Paid in Full maybe the greatest hip hop album of all time.
However the worst shopping experience known to man is on Marsh Hill Road in Orange. Had to go there to pick up a birthday cake (the wife\'s) @ Julia\'s on Saturday. Nothing in these stores but **** junk, and these people with carts chock full of nick nacky **** that just adds clutter to your home. Might as well just ligh your money on fire. Could feed starving kids in Africa with the money. I hate wasterfulness. I hate clutter. Every single person agonizingly slow with their obese waddles in the parking lot. Wanted to hit them with my car.
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I\'m with ya freddie, where else can you observe every facet of american life?? You got your upper crusties, your poor folk who cant afford to pay to hang out somewhere, and your middle american depressed shmuck just to name a few. I personnaly find it entertaining and enlightening every time i walk through those glorisous sliding doors.
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<< loves hangin at the mall.
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To me the mall is like a war zone. You need to have a clear plan of attack before pulling in. I know exactly what I need, where it is, how much it will cost and I have planned my arrival around \'normal\' people?s schedules so as to not have to deal with any of them. Today was all wrong though. I went at 6pm when everyone was out of work, and fyi that I parked near didn\'t have the new rush album, so I walked up to best buy, getting more and more disgusted with every person and store I passed. Man, I can be really anti-social when I want to. :P
"One: I don\'t like you. I see you every week in this mall. I don\'t like you shiftless layabouts. You\'re one of those **** mallrat kids. You don\'t come to the mall to shop or work. You hang out and act like you **** live here. Well, I have no respect for people with no shopping agenda." -Shannon Hamilton
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are you on drugs, paul?
Only if you count endorphins obtained over the 4+ hour bike ride training regime I\'ve been hitting every other day.
To me the mall is like a war zone. You need to have a clear plan of attack before pulling in. I know exactly what I need, where it is, how much it will cost and I have planned my arrival around \'normal\' people’s schedules so as to not have to deal with any of them. Today was all wrong though. I went at 6pm when everyone was out of work, and fyi that I parked near didn\'t have the new rush album, so I walked up to best buy, getting more and more disgusted with every person and store I passed. Man, I can be really anti-social when I want to. :P
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Although its something that cant be avoided by most like a..........(Traffic Jam!!!!) The "Mall" to me is pretty much the same thing,gives me the same kinda feeling.
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hahaha very understandable.
i have gone from being a little westchester, ny mallrat girl to honestly only going when i actually need to. i would be lying if i said i hated the mall, but i definitely no longer love it the way i used to. i guess that being broke and in college has a lot to do with that as well...
i personally DESPISE going there around the holidays. i seriously feel like i\'m on the verge of a panic attack when i walk around the mall from thanksgiving->xmas eve and even in the month or two after that period. it can really be too much for me to handle.
at this point in time, if i go to the mall, i really only go because i want to go to one store and get the hell out...whereas back in the day, i hung out at the mall A LOT.
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are you on drugs, paul?
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Seriously. I **** hate the mall. I\'d blame it on being older, but that wouldn\'t give me an excuse for the previous 28 years of loathing the building every time I\'ve gone in there. It\'s not the building per say though, as I hate all malls. I hate everything about them. Other than a heated indoor treadmill for the elderly in the winter and something for kids with nothing better to do than waste their teenage years away in, what purpose does it serve? They **** the country of the mom and pop stores that made towns unique long before most people in New England had ever heard the word \'Wal-Mart\'. Wal-Mart was just more efficient at it and brought everything in under one store name. Today was the first time I went to a mall since before the holidays in december and it never changes. The yuppies, the stores, the products, the pathetic excuse for capitalism that we call commerce or the overweight people stuffing themselves on discount sales for stretch elastic pants, complaining that they don\'t make any in their size while walking over to the human trough called a food court to gorge themselves on the crap they call food and then wondering why they are overweight so they buy the newest product as seen on tv guaranteed to loose 10lbs in 15 minutes as long as you buy this (and also follow the same \'sensible diet and workout program, results not typical\' that they all require) if you want to actually have results while eating your deep fried god-knows-what. At least I got the new rush and NIN albums, my punishment for not ordering them online like I should have.
Only in america. I **** hate the mall.
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I avoid them like the plague. I never go to the mall. We didn\'t sped tim ethere that much as kids. I think its a man thing. I don\'t know too many guys who window shop. Women can do that all day. I go to buy stuf when I need to buy stuff. Not to simply browse through endless wasted money choices.
But I did got to an FYE the other day. I haven\'t actually stepped foot in an actual music store in years. I had way too much fun tho. I don\'t think I have ever been in a music store when I had a real job and could get whatever I wanted.
I bought all sorts of CDs. New to me stuff, stuff I needed to replace (You know the cds that somehow grow legs and you never see them again even tho you still have the case for them) and just random stuff i have wanted.
This is what I got:
Sublime - Sublime
Blood Sweat And Tears - The extended Versions (live)
Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Beck - Mutations
Iron Maiden - Peace of Mind
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (24 bit remastered)
Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full
Radiohead - OK computer
I could have spent so much more but was running out of time. Sure was fun tho
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Seriously. I **** hate the mall. I\'d blame it on being older, but that wouldn\'t give me an excuse for the previous 28 years of loathing the building every time I\'ve gone in there. It\'s not the building per say though, as I hate all malls. I hate everything about them. Other than a heated indoor treadmill for the elderly in the winter and something for kids with nothing better to do than waste their teenage years away in, what purpose does it serve? They **** the country of the mom and pop stores that made towns unique long before most people in New England had ever heard the word \'Wal-Mart\'. Wal-Mart was just more efficient at it and brought everything in under one store name. Today was the first time I went to a mall since before the holidays in december and it never changes. The yuppies, the stores, the products, the pathetic excuse for capitalism that we call commerce or the overweight people stuffing themselves on discount sales for stretch elastic pants, complaining that they don\'t make any in their size while walking over to the human trough called a food court to gorge themselves on the crap they call food and then wondering why they are overweight so they buy the newest product as seen on tv guaranteed to loose 10lbs in 15 minutes as long as you buy this (and also follow the same \'sensible diet and workout program, results not typical\' that they all require) if you want to actually have results while eating your deep fried god-knows-what. At least I got the new rush and NIN albums, my punishment for not ordering them online like I should have.
Only in america. I **** hate the mall.
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