Malls are nasty places. The most obvious nastiness is negative energy.
Few shoppers are happy, they can't afford the things they see, they buy on debt, wielding their creditcards like pangas, they cut a path to further misery, piling up on the debt, after all, it was on special, so they actually saved. Dressed to show they have the credit, they mill about shops, aquiring the latest trend, filling their wardrobes to capacity, somehow never having enough - that is the majority of shoppers.
Then you get the cruisers, people who have horrid little homes, without a tree in the backyard, who use malls as their personal lounges, enjoying the marble and glass, feeling grand and withit, slowly walking along the mall, spending the little money they have on having something to eat or drink where they can be seen, for the big spending kahunas they are - not.
The mall creeps, men who position themselves where they can see females go about, at coffeeshops at the foot of an escalator, near lingerie shops, hanging over rails, looking down at cleavages.
The pensioners, whose only day out is a visit to the mall, with their tiny little purses and determined attitudes, they walk in slow motion cocooned in time dilation fields, tsk-tsking about the pace of life, the rowdy teens, the price of life and how it was all better in their days.
Hell is the mall, where the music from a myriad stores assail your senses, where thousands of products and choices tug at your every step, where tempers flare and ordinary people turn into monsters, all mixed in with the smell of KFC, coffee, plastic and the perfumes and odours of hundreds.
Then you get
shopper with purpose, needing a new pair of shoes, because the old ones can't cope anymore, or hurrying to get a needed item, rushing to get it and get out of hell as soon as possible.
This is the exception, this is the blur you see, the person moving at speed, the one who knows about hell and whose excursion into the damning halls is swift and sure and short and always a victory when walking back into the sunshine outside, where the air is free.
