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Top Ten Most Annoying People at the Mall

Posted by Cindy

Dec. 23, 2009 8 a.m. • 16 comments

A pair of shoppers, who did not want to be identified, sit on a bench Monday at the CambridgeSide Galleria mall in Cambridge, Mass. Associated Press photos

As someone who doesn’t like shopping or shopping malls, I concur with most of this list which includes:

The retail employee who cheerfully wants to know, as you’re being rung up, if you have all your Christmas shopping done now?

The local news

Unescorted men in Victoria’s Secret

Though Costco isn’t the mall I would add Costco shoppers who push their loaded carts down the middle of the parking lot. Nothing says Merry Christmas like putting along at .5 mph behind some Bozo and his big screen TV, case of Heineken, and drum of industrial strength cleanser.

Have you encountered any of the folks on this top ten list? Anyone you’d care to add?

16 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Fixer on December 23 at 9:19 a.m.
Many. On a regular basis. I’ve been fortunate enough not to be the Victoria’s Secret guy, though.

I’m not sure how I could browse (with honorable intentions) the selection of unmentionables and NOT look like a total pervert. And what if, coincidentally, I had a smile on my face while browsing? I’d be surprised if I didn’t get tasered.
factchecker on December 23 at 9:20 a.m.
People who think they’re entitled to park in the fire lane because they’re too lazy to walk from a far away parking spot.
Smacky on December 23 at 9:26 a.m.
People who drag their kids from store to store then wonder why the kids are hitting eachother and screaming.
meadowlark on December 23 at 9:52 a.m.
People who insist on trying to squeeze their Ford F350 (or otherwise obnoxiously huge vehicle) into a “compact car only” parking space in the Riverpark Square parking garage.

During the past 3 visits there, I have counted at least 3-4 spaces, on every single level, rendered unusable because of trucks or SUVs taking up two spaces. It is SO INCONSIDERATE; it makes me CRAZY!! If that is the only vehicle you can drive to town, for cryin out loud, park on the street or at the very top of the parking garage.

Whew. I feel better already. :)
RathdrumBob on December 23 at 9:52 a.m.
You are at the most fantastic shopping mall ever created: the internet! I did almost all of my shopping at my desk (with my boss’s blessing!!) in one day. No whining kids, no jerk salespeople, no lines, no parking hassles.
Me on December 23 at 1:27 p.m.
Cindy - I would expand on that unescorted men in Victorias Secret - and this is not just at Christmas time. The men that are not just waiting outside the dressing rooms, and not in the dressing room itself with their wife / girlfriend, but hanging out right outside the doors of the dressing rooms - c’mon - can’ you just wait for your wife to come out and show you?
Cindy_H on December 23 at 1:34 p.m.
Uhh…Me, if I came out and showed my husband it would kinda take the fun out of the unwrapping.
Plus, I’d probably get arrested for indecent exposure.
Ho, ho, ho!
Soaf on December 23 at 1:38 p.m.
Cindy H on December 23 at 1:34 p.m.

Plus, I’d probably get arrested for indecent exposure.
Ho, ho, ho!
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Or a round of applause from the other guys in the shop!

;-)
Sisyphus on December 23 at 1:39 p.m.
You sure they weren’t trying things on Me? Do they accommodate cross dressers? How about the transgendered?

I would expand on item number one, people not efficiently going through check out. Its great that you keep your pennies, but save ‘em for a poker game. Do not count them out with a line behind you. And I can hardly wait till we go the way of the British and get rid of the check.
Phaedrus on December 23 at 1:50 p.m.
Ho, ho, ho!—CindyH

Don’t be so hard on yourself, I’m sure whatever you bought was very classy! ;-)

Merry Xmas!—Phaed
Cindy_H on December 23 at 2:02 p.m.
Ouch!
mike_s on December 23 at 4:55 p.m.
Speaking of malls, can’t CDA do any better than the Silver Lake Mall? That place is just ghost-town creepy, cold and dirty. I make the trip to Spokane every time for serious retail shopping and, by the looks of the Silver Lake Mall, so do most folks around here.
Stickman on December 26 at 4:02 p.m.
Anyone that comes here for the sole purpose to make someone mad. Of course we have opinions, I have my own. But to be mean and try to rile the family up, sounds like a non- family member. Does it make for conversation, of course. Do we wish they were not here, probably.
Stickman on December 26 at 4:09 p.m.
Also, anyone that’s rude and obnoxious and thinks the world revolves around them. I can name many, but the world needs more peaceful people, not ones that think that they are the bomb. Be nice to your neighbor, and not always think that the person next to you is your enemy. I see it on the streets daily, everyone is so mad at the world. Why?
Sisyphus on December 26 at 4:15 p.m.
I dunno Stick. People are going through tough times. Humility would serve us better as Christ often informed us. You are a shining example of doing it correctly. And you’re not even Christian. Don’t ever change.

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