Saturday Night At The Mall

Some things never seem to change, and Saturday night at the mall is one of them.  Families with screaming kids shopping and teen- and tween- agers hanging out.  Everybody lining up for their soft pretzel or smoothie. The cool place for kids to hang out used to be the record store-now it's a store called Hot Topic (clothes, novelty stuff, and some music too).  And we used to hang out at Spencer's gifts, too-when I was a kid they had the whole back of the store set up as a mini-disco.  That was like WOW for those of us who were too young to go to a real disco!  Now Spencer's seems to sell mostly sex and gross-out novelty stuff.  I think what I miss most about the mall of my youth, though, is good old Woolworth's.  Not a cool place to hang out at all, but it was the kind of place that you could find things you couldn't find anywhere else, and cheap, too.  Now it's all the same, same, same everywhere you shop.  Attention future retailers; originality please!