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I went to vote. I hadn't researched my votes and I only voted in two races. I feel like I let democracy down. I thought my neighbor was running for office but I didn't see his name. I'm having my own problems and I got disillusioned when it started to look like they were stealing elections, especially the last one. That looked really shady. The candidate that had the election stolen sued over it; he's a lawyer, but I never heard anything about it. People should have protested but nothing happened.
I came to the mall. There's a lot of middle class humanity here. A lot of people are here on vacation or have come back to see their families. There was a Japanese family in the upscale health food store, shopping like American Yuppies. The mom was looking over the produce wearing a cotton dress and a sling bag, the daughter was running around and the grandmother was working the cart full of cardboard take out containers with their dinners in them. First time I ever saw that. There was another Japanese family at the checkout stand.
They said it would take forty minutes for my takeout order at the franchise restaurant. About twenty people waited outside for seats. That restaurant is already so large that they took over two other restaurants' spaces and part of the mall space. As I ate my white bean hummus, a local Asian family walked by, the kids eating their gelatos. All the computers but one in the computer store were taken. Everyone is here. The mall is buzzing. Everyone is middle-class but drab looking. We're a dressed down nation. The IQ and net worths here are higher than average but the electricity isn't there. When I was young people in this neighborhood had their clothes made. Blond beach girls were always flipping their hair and showing off their tans. Now no one's flipping anything but houses.
I came to the mall. There's a lot of middle class humanity here. A lot of people are here on vacation or have come back to see their families. There was a Japanese family in the upscale health food store, shopping like American Yuppies. The mom was looking over the produce wearing a cotton dress and a sling bag, the daughter was running around and the grandmother was working the cart full of cardboard take out containers with their dinners in them. First time I ever saw that. There was another Japanese family at the checkout stand.
They said it would take forty minutes for my takeout order at the franchise restaurant. About twenty people waited outside for seats. That restaurant is already so large that they took over two other restaurants' spaces and part of the mall space. As I ate my white bean hummus, a local Asian family walked by, the kids eating their gelatos. All the computers but one in the computer store were taken. Everyone is here. The mall is buzzing. Everyone is middle-class but drab looking. We're a dressed down nation. The IQ and net worths here are higher than average but the electricity isn't there. When I was young people in this neighborhood had their clothes made. Blond beach girls were always flipping their hair and showing off their tans. Now no one's flipping anything but houses.
