Why must you HANG OUT in my store??

[AFpheonix]

Ventolin is a brand name of an albuterol inhaler....is that what you were talking about?

[ArenaBoy]

Yep, and the side effects from what I've heard are equivalent to a high pitch. I have a friend who is on it and often times he'll complain about high frequencies. The song Ventolin replicates just that.

[tollbaby]

I had my boyfriend listen to it, and he immediately yelled, "Oi, that was horrible! What'd you make me listen to that for?".... so I told him to play it again and hold the phone up to the speaker. I couldn't hear a damn thing (he's 23, I'm 31)

wahhh!!!! I'm old!!!!

[PW_Elle]

Mall Customers

The mall closest to me recently did something like this... basically after 4:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays kids under 18 are no longer allowed to be in the mall unsupervised.

They just got tired of kids hanging out, not buying anything save a cd and some dollar menu food, and causing trouble. Most people have been scared to go to the mall on Friday and Saturday nights. It's not like where I live is a really high crime rate, either. It's in mid-Missouri, in a college town. Kids just are dumb sometimes.

Elle

[Gurndigarn]

The mall closest to me recently did something like this... basically after 4:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays kids under 18 are no longer allowed to be in the mall unsupervised.

It's actually been happening for some time. I found it kind of fitting that the first place I heard of it was the Mall of America.

[Tigress]

The mall closest to me recently did something like this... basically after 4:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays kids under 18 are no longer allowed to be in the mall unsupervised.

They just got tired of kids hanging out, not buying anything save a cd and some dollar menu food, and causing trouble. Most people have been scared to go to the mall on Friday and Saturday nights. It's not like where I live is a really high crime rate, either. It's in mid-Missouri, in a college town. Kids just are dumb sometimes.

I think the mall near me has enacted that policy. At any rate, I've seen much fewer kids hanging out there over the past couple of years. IMNSHO, it's a dumb move on their part, since teenagers form a good chunk of its income. The mall is now competing against several shopping centers that's all too eager to suck up to the kids. They really can't afford to ban the kids and then piss off their parents.

Furthermore, as soon as the new shopping center is completed (right across the street from the one my store is in), Belk is moving its store over there. And Belk is the mall's biggest renter. Also the food court, with its two non-restaurant places to eat, and the arcade, with only 3yo fighting and shooting games are pathetic. And all the YuGiTards have migrated to the new gaming shop.

The mall is almost dead most days. The only reason I still go there is to support the friends I have working at EBStop and FYE and to make the occasional manga run at the still-awesome book store.

[HYHYBT]

Well, it depends... are the kids being kept out spending more than the adults who don't go because the place is overrun with kids? Tough call to make.

That noise sounds exactly like ringing ears.