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"cybercat" > wrote in message
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> "Becca" > wrote in message
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>> cybercat wrote:
>>> "The UnInmate" > wrote >
>>>> I reached adulthood before "malling" became a word, but it was still
>>>> fun
>>>> to wander around the big indoor malls. Now they are passe' and it's
>>>> really a shame. The smalltown
>>>> walk-down-the-main-street-full-of-small-stores thing is a tourist
>>>> experience these days.
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>>> We disagree there. Malls just suck all the life out of me.
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>> It looks like I was born without the shopping gene, maybe you too?
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> Yes indeed. But I love getting good values, and so I have to spend time
> doing it. My reconnoissance mission revealed that the sales were
> outstandingly good, and much better than Internet prices, so I had to go
> back. We're talking Jones New York items marked from $65 to $12. Cheaper
> on lesser known brands. Entire summer outfits for friends and sisters and
> their kids for less than a good bottle of wine. So I had a good breakfast
> loaded up on b vitamins, finished my coffee and sucked it up. It is
> incredible the great stuff I got. I HAD to spend money, there was no way
> around it. Prices like that make it a moral imperative. (After years of
> being squeezed by retail having sales that were not really sales, it felt
> GREAT to get quality, beautiful, functional stuff at dirt cheap prices.)
> But I suffered. I still have hanger bruises on my hands.
>
Damn hiccups.
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