i swear there were zombies
after my workout i went to go check out the site where i'll be taking my GRE this saturday. i wanted to make sure where it was in the metcalf south mall. i discovered several things while i was there, the most obvious is that it's a completely dead mall. there's only three stores in the whole thing. Macy's on one end, Sears on the opposite end and in the middle a crappy gift and home decor shop. It was eerie to wander around looking for my test site. the first creepy thing i noticed was that the floor had a mirror like shine from no one walking on it. it's like the night crew had contests to see how shiny they could make the floor. then there was the creepy music in the very empty mall. yep, that background music that you never really hear normally. it was quite loud and echo-y. scary. then next thing that caught my attention was the fountains, they still had them running all over the mall, so the combination of the music and the fountains was really freaking me out. and all the escalators and main stairways were all blocked and even walled off with locked doors in front of them, so you couldn't get to the second level. i wonder if that's where they keep the bodies? i seriously expected the few old people wandering around for exercise to be real zombies. i was waiting for one of them to jump out from around a corner and start chewing on my neck. really, i'm not joking. it was just like out of a zombie movie... the dead, empty mall with old wrinkled people shuffling about. tell me if you've seen this one?
after i found where i was supposed to go on saturday, i quickly walked back to the macy's end where i had parked. this time i looked at all the empty stores. all the big ones were there at one time, and some didn't even take the fixtures with them when they moved out. it was like they couldn't get out fast enough. it's strange, because there is a lot of traffic that still goes by there and there were quite a few people in macy's and a lot of cars in front of sears as well. the mall was completely "dead".
i'm creeped out that i have to go back there on saturday, i hope i can concentrate without the worry of zombies trying to eat my guts.
5 comments:
I've been there! I took my first Apple Certification test there.
I found the place kind of sad, really. I felt sorry for the big building. It's not a bad mall; it's clean, shiny (as noted) and has plenty of room for stores.
But for some reason, it's empty. I think it just can't complete with Oak Park Mall. Shame.
not the zed-word!
It's like you were in the twilight zone... the twilight mall. Bring lots of garlic with you on Saturday. Oh wait, that's for vampires. Good luck!
it's empty because it's old and oak park is way nice and way too close to it. it just doesn't make sense to have the same stores in both malls within 5 miles of each other.... sadly the older one lost the battle. you can tell it was pretty sweet back in the day... but i still wonder what they keep on the top level that you can't get to?
before they opened a jones store now macy's in the old montgomery ward space in oak park, there was still a need to go to metcalf south mall, it was the only jones in overland park. once they did that, there really is no reason to go to the tiny macy's at metcalf. i wonder how long that store will stay as an anchor...
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