More scenes from a mall

Here are some more random thoughts brewing in my mind as I sit idly, imagining the 1991 movie, ‘‘Scenes From A Mall’’ by Woody Alle n.

Shoe stores are booming. There’s just too many of them sprouting everywhere.

Practically every one goes around without a mask.

There are fewer bottles of alcohol at the entrances of shops that allow customers free sanitation. At the height of the pandemic, they used to be everywhere.

A good number of mall goers, especially women and young girls, are either obese, overweight, or on the verge.

Young girls like to display their bodies wearing sexy clothes, next to nothing.

There are now shops that specialize in fixing, trimming, thickening your eyebrows. Will they design pubic hair next?

Dogs will soon take over malls from humans. Dog bark rises above the cacophony of voices, the noise, clutter and clatter of daily scenes at the mall. Watch out for potential rabies-carriers, just as scary as the dreaded Covid-19.

Stray cats are welcome at Ayala malls. But, don’t feed them, goes a warning.

Book stores have downsized, if they haven’t closed down altogether. The biggest and oldest one has retained just one tiny shelf for text books, sells only office supplies.

Coffee shops no longer carry newspapers and periodicals. What a shame!

It’s so much more practical to buy a cup of coffee at any fast food restaurant where the price of a cup is but a fraction of those sold in any of those “designer” coffee houses. The taste of coffee is the taste of coffee.

Young people crowd coffee shops, where iced coffee or so-called artisan coffee is their drink of choice.

Hot coffee is for the oldies.

The same young people delay family dining for a few hungry minutes while they take pictures of food before they are consumed. The world needs to see what they’re eating, drinking, wearing, buying, selling, outing, anything and everything.

Children as young as 3 years old can navigate through cell phones and tablets, are more

technologically savvy than this 100-year old passerby who thinks he’s been there, done that.