"OMG, like, I had nothing to do today and I thought, well, like, how should I spend it. It was so dreary and dark and it was raining, raining, raining. I was, like, pretty positive I didn't want to drive anywhere. So, I totally took out a Translink ticket, and got on a SkyTrain. I really just had to, like, go to the mall. And it was, like, so totally awesome."
It's true even though I don't often talk, much less write, like that. It was a bit out of character but I really did have the feeling I should get out and do something. Fortunately, my building is attached to the SkyTrain at Columbia Street Station. I didn't have to find an umbrella as I can leave my apartment and go right into the Metrotown Mall without walking outside. I generally laugh at the young, mostly Asian, youth who flock to Metrotown. I mean when the weather is perfect people should be out hiking the North Shore mountains, or walking around the Stanley Park Seawall. Really, to me the very definition of 'needing to get a life' is when the best one can occupy themselves with is mall shopping.Today though, it was just want I needed. I strolled slowly around but didn't find a thing to buy. I don't know what has happened but I couldn't even find anything that interested me at Future Shop, the electronics retailer. Maybe from now on I won't be so hard on mall rats.