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Not convinced anyone likes shopping centres.

I feel like they were deliberately designed to give me migraines. Why does the building echo noise back at me? Why so much fluorescent light? What even is that plastic-y artificial smell of death?

People who want to spend the whole day shopping are so weird to me.

I've been here for 3 hours and my will to live is gone.

3 hours is like 3 days in retail time. You need one of those camel backpacks with a straw and good shoes, or you will perish in the wasteland of 2 for the price of 1 specials.

D:

My friend is picking up the two items I am in desperate need of today while she does her shopping. I am so grateful I could cry. Currently texting her to tell her I'm building a creepy shrine dedicated to her great sacrifice.

Coming up on 4 hours. Or maybe it's been more than 4 hours. I've lost all sense of time.

I'm with my mum she doesn't know what she wants. Usually I know what I want, go in, get it and get out /efficient shopping pls

I see the light at the end of the poorly lit 3 level warehouse

Usually I know what I want, go in, get it and get out /efficient shopping pls

This is me, too. The only sorts of stores I could be cool with spending hours in are bookstores and stores that sell albums/CDs, and that's just 'cause even if I know what I want to buy from them, I still like hanging out in them and seeing what all's there anyway.

Otherwise, with anything else I'm shopping for, I share your attitude. That's the biggest reason I HATE clothes shopping. I do not like going back and forth between a fitting room and the racks trying on countless outfits for hours on end. Is it in my size? Yes? Does it fit me? Yes? Does it seem like the sort of thing I would wear? Yes? Then that's all I need to know.

:( RIP Caerbannog.

Ugh those giant places like DFO are the worst. Or Ikea with the endless looping floorplan.

I feel like a lot of people see shopping as a gathering activity. Like if they were cavemen, they'd be squishing berries to see if they were ripe before they pick them one by one. I'm more 'okay well that big thing will feed me for a month and I can wear the skin and make cool things out of its bones so I'll just stab it and go home to take a victory nap'.

OMG, Ikea. So many times where I nearly passed out. Moving interstate, I needed to go there quite a bit for this and that. I made this after a particularly bad trip:

...however, since then I've learnt to study the website's products in advance and make a list of what I need, park at and go in the exit, peruse the locations computer, study the maps, and take all the shortcuts. No need usually to go to the labyrinthine second story where the entrance is :D

Same principle applies for me with shopping centres really. Ugh ugh ugh. They are really exhausting.

Boromir speaks the truth.

There's a pick-up point for Ikea near me apparently. So I could make an order online, pay over the phone, and have all of it delivered there. Definitely trying that next time I need Ikea crap.

Our local shopping centre is open air, which I like. However, the shops are spread over about a kilometre because it's all one giant lane of doom with little side lanes and some sections have levels and if I didn't grow up here I'd probably never find what I was looking for. You can spot the new people because they look confused and distressed. There's an information desk, but good luck finding that.

Sounds good re Ikea, if they don't charge out the wazoo for it. I've got this paper catalogue here from them which has a $40 "picking fee" for EACH item of furniture.

Giant lane of doom... heh. Spending hours looking for what you need on levels and levels reminds me of visiting Singapore, where I get the feeling the locals just know from years and years of living in the one city state exactly where to go for what. The city is one giant interconnected aircon shopping centre labyrinth. I had a housemate who emigrated from there, said it was so boring, people just shopped or went to movies to have fun.

But yeah, open air at least cuts down on that echoey fluorescent descents-of-hell experience.

$40 for every item? D: Jesus.
It says shipping from $99. From $99 to what?

I have to say if the rest of Singapore is anything like the International airport I had my flights connected through, then I probably wouldn't mind it. There's an indoor butterfly garden and a koi pond and little nap areas. They do a good indoor space.

It was a DFO XD

I went to IKEA yesterday which didn't bore me on account of the sheer novelty of being in IKEA.

See. I knew what level of hell you were in without you having to say it.
I have spent many awful days in DFO with very little to show for it. I think I bought a pair of converse once.

Ikea is kind of cool because they have so many things I never knew I needed. I'm never sure how long I've been in there or how to get out though. I think they want me to move into the teeny tiny display rooms and live off of swedish cafeteria food for the rest of my life.

Uckkk my thoughts are with you at this trying time. Hope you made it out of there in one piece.

YES. Same here.

They are just the worst.

That plastic-y artificial smell of death is the smell of death. If the mall is big enough there might be people dying there every week.

I thought that mannequin looked too real.

D:

My mother uses them as jogging tracks, looking in the windows as she passes by.

When you're a bored teen with nothing to do, they can be okay to just fuck around in provided you have a group of friends with you.

My mother-not-available-in-law LOVES them. Spends nearly every day at one. But then, her profound unhappiness is assuaged by the siren call of shiny corridors filled with shiny crap her shiny credit card can take home.

Update. Am finally free. But the lethargy and apathy I now have for life is following me home.

I like malls a lot. I really enjoy shopping. I love nice things. I just do.

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