Wearing their expensive suits and holding their expensive briefcases, they walked with a direct focus in a way that made it seem as though they wanted to quickly return somewhere, or quickly go somewhere, completely ignoring all others around them.
At one point, my friend and I ran into a man wearing a plaid, twee-like suit in the elevator. He acted as though we were completely impeding on him and his space, scoffing at us when we decided to go to the very top floor of the parking garage. This is where I felt most alienated and separated from what I thought I was a part of- a city.
The mall area was full of empty, dark stores that were catered towards the busy business workers, mostly consisting of food places. The few places that were open included a jewelry store and a store that sold smoothies. There was a part of me that felt completely empty and alone, although I was surrounded by hundreds of people. They seemed so direct and so sad- it was really an experience that took me back a little bit. They paid no attention to detail, to their journey, to the rainy day outside. They paid attention to where they were going, and how fast they were going.
Exactly, I noticed same thing as you:majority of people on the street I saw are white collars with nice suits, and later at night the downtown was like a dead town only with tramps. The whole place was empty and scary, even at thanksgiving at shopping mall there are not many people in there. I went to AT&T at downtown last Friday, it was rush hour, there are long lines of people with briefcases who are off from work waiting for bus at every station, so my friend and I had to walk through them, and that's when I feel like I am in a whole different world from us.
ReplyDeletePS:the skyways in downtown is really confusing, I got myself lost couple of times.