Can anyone else NOT walk around in a mall?

[gsxrken]

I don't know what it is, but 10 minutes after I set foot in a mall, I can barely walk. My feet are aching and its almost like my legs get weak. I pull up at one of the benches and tell my wife she knows where to find me.

[azasadny]

When was the last time you had a good, thorough physical?
I'm not suggesting you have the same thing, I'm just saying that you may want to take this as a sign that something may be wrong and get it taken care of. Good luck!

[widgeon13]

Can walk in the mall, hell, I don't go to malls. Too many people!

[widgeon13]

Can't walk in a mall is what I meant to say.

[Moses]

I have a similar experience. Too much unfiltered visual input. Lights, windows, displays. It's a sensory assault. It gives me vertigo and a headache. I have to sit down. I almost never go to the mall.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Moses

I have a similar experience. Too much unfiltered visual input. Lights, windows, displays. It's a sensory assault. It gives me vertigo and a headache. I have to sit down. I almost never go to the mall.

Except for hitting the Metro Station in Pentagon Mall, I have not been in a Mall in 15 years.

I genuinely do not like crowds, especially those shopping in Malls.

[gsxrken]

Lol but thanks for the concern. I'm 6-1 185 and in better shape than most.
I just find them totally draining. It may be the visual overload thing noted above. I almost shop exclusively online. For that matter, I don't buy much at all other than hobby stuff. My wife keeps this entire show on the road when it comes to real stuff.

[HardDrive]

The smells are just horrible. And yes, in some malls the visual assault is awful as well.

We rarely go to malls. Oceans of cheap chinese crap, agressive sales staff, the places smell like a badgers ass, morons walking around with their underpants showing.....no thanks.

[Dueller]

Try wearing flats instead of the high heels.

[slodave]

I get lost in malls. No, really. I do.

[StevoRocket]

Never go at the weekend or when children are on holiday from school.
Always have a purpose, a purchase you cant get anywhere else.

Always set a target - the most attractive woman of the day will do.

Time limit your visits - 30 minutes is enough.

[widgeon13]

I drove by the mall in colony NY this afternoon, don't think there was a parking spot to be found. Looked like Black Friday.

[DARISC]

I'm saul, got mauled in a mall last fall at a bear sterns stall by a broker named paul, very tall, had a lot of gall...that's all.

[ossiblue]

Originally Posted by StevoRocket

Never go at the weekend or when children are on holiday from school.
Always have a purpose, a purchase you cant get anywhere else.

Always set a target - the most attractive woman of the day will do.

Time limit your visits - 30 minutes is enough.

Our local mall is an indoor, two-story type with walk-ways on the second floor that border large openings which allow overhead views of the shoppers below. The designer placed clear glass panels around the openings and placed large, overstuffed chairs by them--facing the glass opening. Needless to say, I rarely see anyone but men in the chairs and somehow I don't think it's because they are overly tired as they never seem to be "resting their eyes."

Yes, I admit I have pleaded fatigue to the wife to take a break at a chair while she searches the racks in the stores. Sometimes guys have to search the racks their own way.

It can make an otherwise unpleasant outing a bit more enjoyable.

[vash]

my wife jokes that i have a 3-store limit..it is true.

she has to plan the three stores carefully. i can buy sight unseen from the internet. i dont need the mall. i hate them. parking lots, to the crowds. the big gigantic posters at Victoria's Secret..good times. hahaha.

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by Dueller

Try wearing flats instead of the high heels.

Well played sir.

[Rick Lee]

Last mall I was in was Tysons Corner in VA in June 2011. I went straight to Gordon Biersch to drink while Mrs. Lee shopped. Saw Barabara Starr from CNN while picking up the wife in Anthropologie. Before that it was a few yrs. ago. I hate malls, I hate crowds and I will do what it takes to avoid them.

[varmint]

sensory overload. just too much advertising.

and unless you are buying gifts for a woman, i can't think of any store in a mall that sells stuff i want.

[Nostril Cheese]

My wife and I only go to the mall to shop at the Lego store.

[on2wheels52]

What's a mall?






jk, there's one two hours away. I was there sometime last century.
Jim