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

...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...