50 Fun Things To Do In A Mall |
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Ride mechanical horses with coins fished out of the reflecting pond. |
2. |
Try pants on backwards at the Gap. Ask the salesperson if they make your butt look big. |
3. |
Dial 900 numbers from demonstration phones in Radio Shack. |
4. |
Sneeze on the sample tray at Hickory Farms and helpfully volunteer to consume its now
unwanted contents. |
5. |
At the bottom of an escalator, scream, "MY SHOELACES! AAAGH!" |
6. |
Ask the sales personnel at the music store whether inflated CD prices are in pesos or
rubles. |
7. |
Teach pet store parrots new vocabulary that makes them unsellable. |
8. |
Stomp on ketchup packets at Burger King,... |
9. |
...But save a few to slurp on as snacks. Tell people that they're, "astronaut food". |
10. |
Follow patrons of B. Dalton's around while reading aloud from Dianetics. |
11. |
Ask mall cops for stories of World War I. |
12. |
Ask a salesman why a particular TV is labeled black and white and insist that it's a color
set. When he disagrees, give him a strange look and say, "You mean you really can't see it?" |
13. |
Construct a new porch deck in the tool department of Sears. |
14. |
Wear pancake makeup and new clothes and pose as a fashion dummy in clothes departments,
occasionally screaming without warning. |
15. |
Test mattresses in your pajamas. |
16. |
Ask the tobaccanist if his hovercraft is full of eels. |
17. |
If you're patient, stare intently into a surveillance camera for an hour while rocking
from side to side. |
18. |
Sprint up the down escalator. |
19. |
Stare at static on a display TV and challenge other shoppers whether they, too, can see
the, "hidden picture". |
20. |
Ask appliance personnel if they have a combo toaster/washing machine. |
21. |
Make unusual requests at the Piercing Pagoda. |
22. |
Ask a salesperson in the hardware department how well a particular saw cuts through bone. |
23. |
At the pet store, ask if they have bulk discounts on gerbils, and whether there's much
meat on them. |
24. |
Hula dance by the demonstration air conditioner. |
25. |
Ask for red-tinted lenses at the optometrist. |
26. |
Sneak up on saleswomen at the perfume counter and spray them with your own bottle of Eau
de Swanke. |
27. |
Rummage through the jelly bean bin at the candy store, insisting that you lost a contact
lens. |
28. |
Ask a saleswoman whether a particular shade of panties matches the color of your beard. |
29. |
In the changing rooms, announce in a singsong voice, "I see London, I see France..." |
30. |
Leave on the plastic string connecting a new pair of shoes, and wander around the mall
taking two-inch steps. |
31. |
Play the tuba for change. |
32. |
Ask the Hammond organ dealer if he can play, "Jesus Built My Hotrod". |
33. |
Record belches on electronic sampling keyboards, and perform gastric versions of Jingle
Bells for admiring onlookers. |
34. |
Ask the pharmacist at the drugstore which leading cold remedy will, "give you a really
wicked buzz". |
35. |
Ask the personnel at Peer 1 Imports whether they have, "any giant crap made out of straw". |
36. |
"Toast" plastic gag hot dogs in front of the fake fireplace display. |
37. |
Collect stacks of paint brochures and hand them out as religious tracts. |
38. |
Ask the information desk for a stroller, and someone to push you around in it. |
39. |
Change every TV in the electronics department to a station showing, "Saved by the Bell".
Chant the dialogue in a robotic voice, and scream if anyone tries to switch channels on one of the sets. |
40. |
Hang out in the waterbed section of the furniture department wearing a Navy uniform. Occasionally
run around in circles yelling, "scratch one flattop!" |
41. |
Hand a stack of pants back to the changing room attendant and scornfully announce that
none of them are, "leakproof". |
42. |
"Play" the demo modes of video games at the arcade. Make lots of explosion noises. |
43. |
Stand transfixed in front of a mirror bobbing your head up and down. |
44. |
Pay for all your purchases with two-dollar bills to provoke arguments over whether they're
real. |
45. |
If it's Christmas, ask the mall Santa to sit on your lap. |
46. |
Answer any unattended service phones that ring in department stores and say, "Thank you
for calling Pizza Hut, home of the Big Foot Big Six. May I take your order please?" |
47. |
Try on flea collars at the pet store while occasionally pausing to scratch yourself. |
48. |
At the stylist, ask to have the hair on your back permed. |
49. |
Show people your driver's license and demand to know, "whether they've seen this man." |
50. |
Buy a jawbreaker from the candy store. Return fifteen minutes later, fish it out of your
mouth, and demand to know why it hasn't turned blue yet. |