As people rush by and the music continues to give the people a headache, the escalators are carrying hordes of people upwards or downwards. While the stairs seem destitute. It seems people are too lazy to take even a few steps. Go up the escalator and you can see people taking even a more easier route. The elevators. Inside a squinting 12 year old boy carrying a milkshake drops it and wrecks the whole thing, bawling his eyes out as the lift scuttles up the side of the mall, finally reaching its destination.
The food floor. Walking past all the various food stalls and coffee shops, the smell of sizzling kebabs flutters up your nose and drool falls from even the most anorexic of women's mouths. A fish and chip shop serves the most largest portions of food anyone can has ever seen and finishing it would probably take a few years as the enormous fish looks about the same size as a tiny girl. Finally the coffee from star bucks is almost overwhelming and knocks straight into you like a tidal wave from the sea. Smiling and winking at men and women trying to get them to stay up all night as the caffeine oozes out of the cups.
The next floor contains shops, not just one shop, thousands of shops. Clothe shops, game shops, perfume shops, movie shops, shoe shops, music shops, tie shops, hat shops, brown shops, red shops. Every kind of shop ever introduced to human kind is here. The neon lights scorch out at people luring them inside and the maps from the information points, point out the most expensive shops.
The disgusting smell of new carpet stifles in the air as you walk into a sports shop filled with the Nikes, Reeboks and adidas'. The tills check as ten pound notes fall into them and if you listen close enough you can hear the bosses cackling like evil maniacs when there plan has succeeded.
Walking back outside and three "rude boys" walk past you, wearing baggy jogging bottoms, zipped up hoodies and caps all saying either lakers, new York or ecko. They seem to want to cause attention to themselves and soon disappear in sight.
If you take a stroll even further down the demented mall the worst thing can be seen. The SALE signs. Everything in the mall is on sale. Its either buy one get one free or get three for 10 pound and some whole shops are covered with these signs saying 50% off everything. People walk in like hypnotised zombies. Outside the plastic models seem as if they are going to come to life anytime and there eyes seem to follow you wherever you go. On the left a great big blue wall covered with signs saying that it will “OPEN SOON”, another horrible clothes shop who nobody will ever go to and will probably close down tomorrow, yet the crowd seem excited as if an ashes cricket match is occurring.
As women go into shops to buy “yet another dress”, parents are dragged about by there children into the toy shops to buy “yet another toy” and the old people can be seen on the benches sitting and waiting…
Suddenly smells of strong chemicals hit your nose as a perfume shop slides into your view on the left. The smell is so strong and the “cool water” or “D&G” seems to remind people of flowers.
Flowers can also be bought normally from the big shopping center at the corner and soon it is closing time, the shopping center seems to deplete as people leave with bags and bags of useless junk which they could have gotten for half price down the market.
Looking out onto the barren lands nothing moves apart from the piddling little bug as it strides along its new found space.
