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fandomsecrets2015-10-22 06:52 pm
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[ SECRET POST #3214 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3214 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Lady Gaga, American Horror Story: Hotel]
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Re: Things you just don't understand why people like
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'.
Re: Things you just don't understand why people like
...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.
Re: Things you just don't understand why people like
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.
Re: Things you just don't understand why people like
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.
Re: Things you just don't understand why people like
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.
Re: Things you just don't understand why people like
I went to IKEA yesterday which didn't bore me on account of the sheer novelty of being in IKEA.
Re: Things you just don't understand why people like
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.