The Mall Crowd

    Today I had to run some errands and that usually means going to the mall.  The mall is a good place to start when I need something because it's the best chance I have of finding what I'm looking for and added bonus it's close enough to walk.  The down side of going to the mall is the "mall crowd".  I'm not talking about how busy the mall is because it doesn't matter if the mall is busy or quiet these people always find me.  When I go to the mall during a weekday morning or afternoon I have my youngest son with me and he's now big enough to walk there and back so no stroller.  And because I have a child with me and we hold hands I have to navigate around the mall and in the stores with him, for the most part, attached to me.  How do the mall people fit into this well you know the ones I'm talking about, they are usually adults and they don't watch where they are going, they rush out of stores without looking and bump into passers by in the mall.  Or they veer off their path right in front of you and cut you off...or they do a combination, like veering to one side but not looking where they're going and I honestly can't move quick enough to get out of their way because I have a small child attached to me, so I stop and wait as they pass by in their blind oblivion.  There have been occasions where we have been bumped into but usually they notice at the last moment and have a bit of shock on their face but I bet if they had been paying attention to where they were going they would've seen it coming too.