Alas the Merlin Mall proved to be another hyped up dissappointment with plenty of Chinese Dollar store junk
but nothing I couldn't buy at any other dying mall.
Just greedy cash grabbing merchants dressed up in cheap plastic wizard robes.
So I quickly went through the place,and although there were about
100 chain store outlets,with clowns selling hamburgers and the like,the place
was a dud.
So I visited ten stores,looked at the garbage they were selling
parked on their shiny
new shelves,and bailed
out after wasting a hour and a half in there.
It was nine thirty,closing time and the
janitors sprayed me and other shoppers with pepper spray to chase us out even faster.
So I was swearing as I rounded the bend in the vast parking lot and tripped over
the curb.
When I woke up the parking lot was totally abandoned.
Apparently nobody cared less about the drunken 21 year old kid who'd
lain on the pavement for hours.
My cellphone said it was one minute past midnight so I ran to my distant
car.
Which had been broken into and my college stuff lay about and was being swept quickly
away by the increasingly strong winds.
"Sh^t,can it get any worse?" I shouted as I shook
my fist at the blue Moon.
I dashed about for a half hour and recovered what I could and then returned to my car,got in and started the engine.
The drivers side door lock had been jimmied pretty badly and the
door kept swinging open every time I took a curve too sharply
and I breathed a sigh of relief
as the distant sign of
Merlins Mega Mall
finally vanished behind some trees.