By Georgia Osten
This was a trip I have been planning for a few weeks. So I caught the 8 am ferry in time to get me to Bay Area Mall when it opened. I began at Dillard’s and proceeded around the entire mall all the way to Macy’s. Stopping at See’s Candies, a sports store, Vera Bradley, PacSun, two different calendar shops, on and on until I couldn’t possibly carry another bag. Every one of those annoying people at every one of those annoying kiosks, would yell out to me to stop to try their product. If I had a free hand, I would wave them off. At one kiosk, I let the women put a free packet of some type of lotion in one of my bags. Then she came at me with some type of eye lotion she insisted I needed to try – I escaped. When I was overloaded with bags, deciding to forego Macy’s and head back to Dillard’s and my car, one guy insisted on talking to me. I yelled back at him “Do I look like I have time to stop to talk to you?”
Weak from hunger, I arrived back at my car realizing I hadn’t had breakfast. I’d only had a cookie at Vera Bradley and a candy from See’s. That’s okay, back I went into the Mall, making my way to Macy’s, catching all the places I had promised myself I would stop on my next venture in, and circling around the other way and back to my car. At the car, I took a look in the mirror to see what on earth was wrong with my eyes. Why was that kiosk girl so insistent on the eye cream?
On the way home, a quick trip to HEB, and back to the sanctity of HOME. Now I know why Amazon and I are such good friends.
[12-12-2016]
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