Do you like malls? What do you hate/like about them?

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

Answers

I love malls. Probably partly because the nearest one is about 2 hours away from me, so I rarely get to go. I like to just browse around all the shops, check out all the stuff I don't have enough money to buy. I just hate them when they're crowded. That's the worst. I completely avoid malls around the holidays.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

malls are alright. not horrible but not wonderful either. i like to go by myself, and only for about an hour at a time since i can't take the legions of annoying people and annoying lighting all at once.

when i go to the mall i always hit the following stores : borders, victoria's secret, hot topic (woowoo), the gap, and old navy.

yesss.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

i live in edmonton alberta home of the biggest mall in the world (http://westedmall.com) and i absolutely love it, which is odd because i generally hate malls.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

Malls never, ever have anything I want. I can't even buy an interesting pair of shoes because it appears that loss of individuality is the latest trend. All the shoes look the freakin same. Like Judy Jetson crossed with Britney Spears. It's madness. Madness, I tell you.

And the crowds. It's like Christmas Day every day at my local mall, probably because there's nowhere else interesting to go.

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2001

I'm such a mallrat, my name should be Brodie. (Kevin Smith reference... sorry.) It's one of those things... when i was little, and I stayed with my grandparents over the summer, they'd take me to the mall like every other day. Then, as I got older, Mom and I would go to the mall every weekend. Actually working in a mall cured me of it a little--to the point where Patrick Henry and Coliseum (the two main malls in the Newport News area) bore me to death. But I still love malls, especially MacArthur Center, or any mall with lots of what I call "cool house shit" stores like home furnishing stores or sports memorabilia stores. (If you want to keep me happy at the Big Mac, set me loose in Restoration Hardware and Field of Dreams for a little while.)

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2001

Actually, there was something really kickass in MacArthur Center. In the sports memorabilia store, there was a Taxi Driver poster, signed by Robert De Niro.

Oh, man. I almost had a fucking orgasm.

Too bad I didn't have -- what was it? $500?

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2001

I like malls for the most part. Does anyone esle find themselves going to certain stores regardless of what type of mall you go into? I like book stores, movie stores and of course the food court. Those are the only stores I seem to limit myself to going too, no matter what type of mall I go to rather it be MacArthur or potomac mills (largest tourist trap in northern VA)

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2001

I love malls. I love shopping in general. I live in this small ass town and our mall absolutely SUCKS, but put me in a decent mall and you can just as well forget about me for a few hours because I won't want to leave. And if I had to choose ONE store to spend ALL my money in, it would easily be Victoria's Secret. For some reason, I just love buying new bras and underwear.

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2001

I like shopping, but only when there aren't 10,000 people in a mall. I won't set foot in a store throughout the entire month of December - makes me feel totally clautrophobic.

There's just something about a mall that cheers me up...dunno what it is, exactly. It's probably because I rarely go, so it's a kind of excursion. On the other hand, I've also never worked at a mall, unlike most of my friends...

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2001

yeah. i've recently become a huge mallrat. i just waste time there quite often. i love watching people and just wasting time. especially mall people. hate shopping though. i just like the atmosphere too...benches, fake trees, the smell..(ah, i love the smell of commerce in the morning.)

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2001

So once you've been to one mall, I swear to god, you've been to them all. I, too, must confess to mallrat-ism. I've had this conversation with Tim and Alex more times than I care to remember, but we all LOATHE our mall - lowest grade Dilliards in the country, if you don't believe me - but yet we ALWAYS end up there. Why? Because it's a central-ish location in which to meet up with people and decided where you're REALLY going to go, but in the end, we always realize there isn't a blessed thing to do in this town (college town or not), thence staying at the mall, rather than wasting gas and GAS MONEY ($1.39 a gallon. Holy fricken jesus.). But now we have a Victoria's Secret, so at least guys can get their dialy hard-ons from something other than porn, you know what I'm sayin.

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2001

florida is a mall, so that shit is tired. i like one particular mall near me because they have photo postcard booths every few feet, where you can send free digital postcards, and i am vain as shit and send 92832 every time i have to go to the gap.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

I love malls, but only when I have money to spend...I am not one to just walk around a mall for the hell of it. I like malls that have all of 'my' stores in one place...American Eagle, Express, Abecrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret...it's all good!

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

I hate malls. There are too many people in them. I usually know what I need when I go in and grab it and then book it out of that place like its on fire. :)

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2001

God, yes. I love them. I love shopping in general so malls are great. I do hate them when they're crowded, but luckily I'm a student so it's pretty easy (not very easy - I'm a medical student!) for me to go in the middle of the day when they're not too busy. At university, I'm a 15-minute tram ride from England's 2nd biggest shopping mall, and at home I'm a 10-minute drive from England's 3rd biggest mall. Go figure.

Clothes shops and bookshops are my favourites, followed by music stores and always with a stop at the food court.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2001