"day of mourning?" you wouldn't think that...

[acroyear]

...if you were at the shopping mall where I went to have lunch. The place was packed, probably 4 to 5 times as many customers as normally there on a friday afternoon. THEN add in the teenagers just out of school (and probably finishing up finals, so the summertime zero-responsibility stage has kicked in), and the place comes across as a total opposite image to this post about the closed-government DC this morning...

Comments

[bkleber.livejournal.com]

silly boy. The post about closed-gov't DC is locked...

Re: what mall were you at?

[lady-foxchase.livejournal.com]

I think it is quiet here cause so many people are off work and let's face it, how many people come into D.C. on their day off when there are no activites going on ( other than the funeral that is).
Plus most of the streets are closed off around here so unless you are down here to work or specifically for the funeral, you can't get anywhere.
I went back over to Union Staion at lunch time and normally this time of year at lunch hour, you can't get anywhere around there without having to step on people - today it is empty.
but I don't think the day of mourning would really have any affect on any cities outside of D.C. other than for people to have a day off so they can go to the malls or whatever. I doubt to many people even bothered to tune into the funeral on CNN.

Re: what mall were you at?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

Fair Oaks, west of downtown fairfax.