Today as I drove to the most beloved Target for socks, which I didn't end up buying, I passed the outlet mall where two of the four sets of flags were at half-staff. This puzzled me for a few reasons: 1. not all four sets were lowered and 2. all the other flags I passed throughout my day were fully raised.
I could think of a few reasons for the flags to be lowered, Japan and Frank Buckles being the most obvious, but with none of the government flags down I was left to worry about the safety of the outlet mall.
Alright, alright you caught me, I wasn't worried about the outlet mall, I know that until the day I find a "real" job that mall will be just fine. But it is a reoccurring pattern and it is cause for alarm. I'm not heavy into traditions but I have some respect, and coming from a generation that is lost with and without them I feel that traditions need to be kept in place so that we can be anchored in something (reading Super Sad True Love Story may be influencing me a bit at this point). The lack of understanding, or caring, that the outlet mall has is, for lack of a better adjective, sad. Lazily raising the flag is piteous, management letting it fly, disgusting.
And before you suggest I do something about it, I have been considering how to go about this. The problem with the outlet mall is that it as an entity is evil. I am only exaggerating a little, the reality is mall management doesn't respect the people who work for them or the stores that keep them in jobs. The security guys do more chatting, smoking, spitting and eating than securing. The maintenance guys do their jobs more or less and fairly well at that, so why do they keep messing up the flags?
Tell me mall management, why?
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