Malled

I just dropped my kid off at the Plymouth Meeting Mall, a most peculiar place. It's not really like a mall. It's like someone took a mall and whacked it with a giant baseball bat like a pinata, and the mall stuff went spilling out all over the place. Macys here, Chicos and Olly there, movie theater here, big piece of paper mache' there left with Boscovs and a food court inside. Then they took an office building and put it in one empty space and a giant Whole Foods in another empty space. And only then did they think, "Oh yeah, we need roads to get in and out of this place." To get from the movie theater to the one and only exit I think I went north, south, east and west each at least twice and stopped at about a dozen 4-way stops. A little like driving in Boston, I guess, but that's another story.