SOMEone's holiday won't be merry and bright...

There's this great Chris Rock joke that goes something like this: In every town there are two malls--the one where the white people shop, and the one where the white people used to shop.  I was at the second mall today.  And, to be fair, it was never a nice mall.  The floor is so uneven that one gets the impression that the builders just poured concrete in a corn field.  But now it has it's anchor stores, Boscov's and the Bon Ton (which smells like your grandma), and all else is...off.  There's the "Everything $4.77" store and "Deal or More Deal" and "Dolltown" (*shudder*) and my favorite, "Joey's 66 cent store."  And the Long John Silver makes the whole place smell like fish batter.  But it also has a shoe repair place and good mall pizza, so Lily and I were there to have our usual Friday pizza lunch and to pick up shoes we'd had re-soled. 

Here's what I heard in the bathroom stall next to mine:

(on a cell phone.  I hope) "Well there's a warrant out for your arrest, right?  When there's a warrant out for your arrest and you just walk into the courthouse and say there's a warrant out on you they put you in jail.....Yeah, so you're in jail for at least a few hours...He didn't tell you that?  Damn...."Yeah, go get it, I'll be here.  It's the POlice.  Jus' kiddin......Oh it IS?  Shit.  Well call me back when you can!"

yipes.

No catalogs at all today.  Time is running out folks.  Is all your shopping done?