Well yeah it did. First time it has happened but frustrating nontheless.
The next few weeks will be hectic what with the end of semester rush to finish projects. So posts will be even more sparse than this recent week :(
Yesterday, I was at PMall. The after Thanksgiving crowd was amazing. The queues were longer than normal and everybody was holding on to some purchase of some kind. It's been said that Thanksgiving marks the beginning of Christmas shopping. Whoever said it was stating the obvious. There were kids everywhere, clutching their new-found treasures. Is there pre-Christmas gift giving going on? It's like everyone is on some mad shopping spree. An inner shopping demon released in each on of them.
There was a santa booth near the foodcourt and kids would clamber on the lap of this guy in a Santa suit, all padded up and bearded. Wonder how many times he cursed inwardly when some would puke/ urinate on him? Some lady was taking pictures of kids with Santa with a poloroid camera. Good emotional push there to make parents fork out money so they can get pics of their kids with santa.
A couple of girl scouts set up booths to sell cookies in the mall. They actually package them into nice paper boxes but I don't know the commercial look of it kinda puts me off. Did girl scouts actually bake them? Or did some cookie machine in a factory bake them? Judging from the lack of overwhelming response, I'm guessing the Atkin's dieters have made a significant dent in their sales.
Christmas is definitely upon us. I'm surprised that the choral groups haven't started singing their Christmas carols yet and there were no jingly jangly Christmas songs blaring from the store speakers as well. Well, even more surprising was that I walk away from the mall with nothing new in tow.
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