Dallas Is Shopping

What’s Dallas like? Malls. No, more like OMG MALLS. I have never seen so many malls in my life. They’re huge, and they’re everywhere, people navigate by them – “Head up towards the Galleria Mall, and go east until you hit the NorthPoint Mall…”. And it’s not just malls; shopping centers and stripmalls fill in all the space that’s not mall. We were driving through the city and I was saying “That Best Buy, that Bed Bath Beyond over there, is that still part of the Galleria? God that’s huge.” And Couplingchaos’ sis says “Oh no, that’s just the shopping center that’s next to the mall.” I don’t think she realized the irony. What do people do when they’re not shopping at the mall? They go out to restaurants. There are so many restaurants, mostly chains like Chilis and Bennigans and Cheesecake Factory like you’d recognize up here but there are also a whole bunch of chains I’ve never heard of before – Pei Wei, Taco Bueno, Genghis Grill, stuff I’ve never seen on the east or the west coast. It’s crazy, I dunno how a metropolitan population can shop and dine as much that would support all those malls and eateries. I guess if you never use your kitchen and dining room to eat food at home, you can use those rooms as storage for all the stuff you buy at the mall. I posted a while back about how it’s not necessarily bad to buy stuff, how consumerism is the base of a healthy economy, but…jeezus, guys.