choose the wiser path

wait, you have malls that are still open?

I'm walking so fast I can't even tell
- Wait a sec for me, will ya?
What's a mall?
- It's a rodent that my cat likes to hunt outside and bring home as trophies.
- An place that supports consumerism that therefore supports more exploitation so some rich people can continue to exploit humanity to enforce their artificial of power through money over humanity
  
  Humans should live to be human, not money making livestock to the few that enforce that power through money structure over humanity
I'm in California. We have many malls. I don't know what they are like these days. I haven't actually set foot in any for years. And I can walk to one!
- Every mall I've been to since like 2018 has just been fewer and fewer shops that aren't rotating their same, boring stuff often enough.
  
  And then Auntie Anne's pretzels, which always slap.
Here in Adelaide, Australia most of our malls are still here - probably got to do with the fact all our malls key stores just happen to be grocery stores, or Walmart style stores (sans groceries) like Kmart, Target, and Big W.

Although Myer centre in Adelaide's Rundle mall (basically a shopping street with no cars) is a bit dead on the top 3 floors - and has been for years now. It's ground and basement floors are always packed (food court in the basement) though.

I like that the worker thinks this is so egregious he shakes his fist angrily

Need to replace doge with a cloud

TBH, I can't remember the last time I went into a mall. :(

I remember at my mall cutting through a pipe tobacco store (90's shit) and later it was a coffee store (not like a Starbucks; they sold 🅱️EANZ). Always cut through it because not just faster, but because they both smelled fucking amazing.

Why is it always jewellery stores?!

They are actually purposely designed like that. They are also often place at the end of corridor after the movie theater in a mall. That's to get even more people to cut through, ideally with their girlfriends.

Trust me, they love it when you cut through... especially if you're with a woman. I actually read something about how because the shape of the pillar (usually for Gate purposes) is a square it throws off human psychology and they see the open space more like a wall that they have to walk around. So very few people cut through that section.