Thursday, July 24, 2014

in a sea of screaming teens

Tuesday, before class, I went to the mall to visit this shoe store on which I'm doing my rebranding project, Aldo Shoes. While I was there, I decided to visit some other well-known stores and take pictures of the "vibe" and "feel" and "theme" of their stores so I could get a good idea of what I wanted to do for my store. Outside the Louis Vuitton store, a security guard stopped me and said, "Ma'am, gonna have to ask you to stop photographing. You need permission from the mall management."
Well, first, I did not know that, and second, DON'T CALL ME MA'AM! What's wrong with, "Excuse me, Miss."??

So I go into my store and ask for the manager so I can get permission to take pictures of the products for my project, except there's no manager there and I'm asked to come back on Thursday after 1.

Now comes Thursday, my day to practice getting up "early" for my Friday morning class. I rolled out of bed about 7:30 and sat like a bored zombie on my couch, hugging a cup of coffee. I got a few ideas written down about my Philosophical Perspectives on Food class project, took a shower, arranged my face and hair, cooked some eggs and then it was barely 10 am. This morning business is too long and not very exciting. Then I farted around on the interwebs for a bit then left to go to school to put together a slide show.
Ok, so about 2 o'clock I head over the the mall to see the manager. I pull into the parking lot area where I always park because it's never crowded -- except for some reason today it was. Inside I notice a lot, I mean A LOT of teenagers cruising around. I know it's summer, but it's still unusual for this many teens to be at any mall on any given day. Then I notice the majority of them are all crowed up along the second floor, a line wrapping around the upstairs walkway. And they all start screaming at once. Startled, of course, I look up and they are all ogling and taking pictures in one particular direction.
Wow, is there a celebrity shopping here today? That's not unusual, it's Dallas, but how would all these kids know so quick if there was? Well, there was a celebrity here today. Two in fact, if you consider them celebrities, which I don't: Kendall and Kylie Jenner have a new line of clothing at the PacSun sportswear store and were there passing out canvas shopping bags and signing autographs. Every time someone exited the store, kids started screaming again and dude, I had to get outta there.

If you're wondering "Who the hell are Kendall and Kylie?" you're not alone.



1 comment:

CC said...

Hey there Vicki! Haven't been on-line lately, so here I am trying to get caught up on your hilarious life. Seriously, you need your own reality TV show.

I always hated it too, when I was your young age and people called me Ma'am! and WHO knew you couldn't take pix at the mall without permission? DUH! What about all those teenies & their smart phone cameras, waiting on Kyle and who? Jenner? Must be Kim & Kloe's "steps" --- Father: Bruce Jenner.

I thought you were gonna say Justin Beaver was there!

The things you go through in the name of art!