An evening at the mall

[fbhjr]

Since I got my bonus a month ago, I’ve been offering to upgrade my wife’s
iPad to one of the new ones.
She has told me that she didn’t want me to buy her one as she was trying to
get her workplace to buy her one.  And, if they saw she already had a new
one, they would her expect her to use that, even if they didn’t pay for it.
Yesterday, her boss finally gave way and ordered my wife a new iPad.  (Part
of my wife’s job is teaching college professors how to use tech like iPads.
Since she is giving classes on the new ones, it does make sense she has
access to one at work.  And, it is hard to argue that it should be up to us
to pay for that.)

But, with a work one on order, my wife agreed that she could use the
upgrade on her personal one too.
So, we went off to that place most scary to my wife: the shopping mall!


Where I finally managed to talk her into trying the place with conveyer
belt sushi.

Sadly it is not as good on a sparsely populated Wednesday night as it was on
the busy Saturday I tried it before.  It was OK, not great.
But, we did discover that if the manager sees you taking his picture with
an iPhone, he comes over to make sure everything is OK.
Good to know.

Then, off to the Apple store where my wife picked out her iPad.

She let the saleswoman go through the whole pitch.  I wasn’t sure why as we
had sat down the night before, looked at her usage and determined which one
was best.  So, I expected to walk in and say “this one, this capacity, with
this cover, here is my credit card.”
My wife said it was more polite to let the woman go through the pitch she
was expected to give.
I have to admit that when she was asked “have you heard of streaming
video?” I had to restrain myself from saying “she teaches college
professors how to use it in their classrooms”.  My wife’s “I’ve heard of
it, please go on” is much more polite.
I did stop them when they got to the point of “helping her set it up for
the first time”, pointing out we needed to bring it home to restore it from
the backup of the iPad she’s had for the last 2 ½ years.
“Oh, you already have one,” the saleswoman said. “Let me just go get you a
bag for your purchase.”
“Thank you.”

Then, we went upstairs as there is a new place that makes crepes.
When I was young there was a crepe restaurant near us that I loved.  I’ve
never really found a good once since.  I’ve found a few that were OK.
This one is OK.
The crepe itself was nice enough.


But, it was very hard to tell my wife’s chocolate smoothie apart from my
berry one.  (Other than I got a larger size.)


Personally, I think berry shouldn’t look like chocolate.  But, that’s me.

I was also surprised to find that my berry smoothie seemed to be far more
banana than anything else.

It had been listed last on the ingredients, so I hadn’t expected to be able
to taste little else.

My wife asked if it was really bad.  This led to a discussion of how bad it
would have to be for me to pour it over the railing onto the floor below so
someone would come up stairs and rescue us from bad smoothies.

Fortunately, it was not this bad.
I don’t have anything against banana.  I just didn’t expect quite so much
of it.

On the way back to the car, we noticed a window display that confused me.

I have no idea what they are selling or who would be the target market.
But, a window full of tentacles did not make me say “Let’s go in there!”

So, the trip was a success as we got my wife the new iPad that she wanted,
and I had wanted to buy for her.  Yay!
But, it has done nothing to overcome my wife’s dislike of malls.

Comments

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

I love that last picture.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

You should thank my wife. She is the one who said "Look! Tenticles!" when I was saying "which of the 12 elevators to the parking garage is the one near where we parked?"

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

I <3 the tentacle picture! I haven't been to the mall in ages, which one has tentacles? Solomon Pond? Or some other one?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Natick mall, Louis Vuitton store.

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

Yay for new ipads! And shouldn't there be berries in berry shakes?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I agree. The ingredients were listed as: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and banana.
I thought it would be mostly strawberries as they are the least expensive of the berries.
Instead it was bannana where I found seeds in it that were consistent with berry seeds.
Not what I expected at all.

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

Though...now that I've engaged my brain...chocolate with banana sounds tasty! Perhaps you should have combined your shakes!

[kismets-kiss.livejournal.com]

The Mall is a terrifying place, much more so if tentacle monsters are the targeted clientele now. Maybe they have an anime section?

I so enjoy your conversational topics, and I could TOTALLY hear Temper's voice saying, "I’ve heard of,it, please go on". lol I do that sometimes with retail people, let them go through their spiel as long as they aren't acting like they are on rote, or pretentious.

And the fact that you have 12 elevators leading to the parking garage in your mall scares me.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

When they rebuilt the mall 10 or so years ago they added a second floor and two new wings. They also added 2 external parking garages (with elevators), parking garages under both new wings (with 4 elevators each) and an external parking garage along the outside wall of one of the new wings (with at least 2 elevators)

Because of this, you come to an intersection sings listing your parking area sometimes point multiple different ways. Last night we were parked in D and there was a place we were told we could go left, right or straight to get to D. Which was best for where we were was not immediately clear.

[kismets-kiss.livejournal.com]

Wow. Our two major malls here in Louisville are in the burbs. Granted you have to deal with the traffic nightmare of cloverleaf exits to get to either of them, the parking lots are just huge ugly acres of concrete. Oh no, now that I think of it the one whose name is cleverly The Mall St Matthews, has a parking garage. I've never used it; I don't go there much. Both the malls are two stories, in areas. For some reason, rather than build up, they've only built out in random bumps and odd starts.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

This one is totally in the burbs. But, a fairly crowded burb, which is why they can't just spread out the parking.