Shopping

Shopping the great American pastime of the twenty-first century. Just look at the amount of credit card debt the average American has, the fact that mall parking lots are always full and you'll see that Baseball is no longer the American pastime, just the American past. Shopping however is the American pastime, how else could we as a nation have gotten into so much debt?

There is something to be said for the benefits of a little retail therapy. come away from an hour, spent just as much money and have worldly goods to show for it instead of newly realized mommy issues to work out. What makes retail therapy effective is that it is a relaxing process rife with rewards, one enters the mall with no item in mind or specific articles to look for. There is however nothing relaxing or therapeutic about having to search for a specific thing, it is far from therapeutic as one can get.

I have to shop for a specific item. Black slacks. Not just any kind of black slacks however. I need a pair of black pants that are long enough to wear with the shoes I wear while waitressing  (a thicker soled anti-skid shoe) but also short enough to wear with my dress flats. If by some small miracle I find a pair of pants that fit that criteria, they also need to make my ass look amazing, be durable (since I'll be wearing them to work all the time), and not cost me an arm and a leg. So as you can see tomorrow when I get off work early since I'm going in early I will have a bitch of a time, come home hating life, the retail world and malls just a little bit more.

I never the greatest fan of America's previous pastime all that much, definitely less enthralling as soccer or football; but I seriously hate America's new pastime even more.