Mall Hopping

Maybe its not something that I should be proud of, but the truth of the matter is that I went mall hopping today as well.

Just 2 days back, Superthumby and I, went to Spencers in the evening. Did our usual oggling, had a sub @ subway and then left the place. Oh wait, we did visit the Srilankan Trade Center in Phase 3 before we actually left.

Since Superthumby was in a mood to stay away from home, since both his wife and mom were out on golu rounds, we just drove straight to Chennai City Center. Here too we did our usual oggling and pointless roaming around.

The worst part of it was, while returning home, we decided to repeat this soon and in fact we wanted to up the ante. For those who are not aware of the phrase 'up the ante', it only means an increase in the stakes or something like that. Definitely not what it literally sounds like.

And today, him and I, again did Mall Hopping. Started off at Spencers. Went to Music World and bought nothing. Then to Landmark and bought nothing. There was a visit to an Archies Gallery where he bought a Thank You greeting card for his FIL. Then we strolled on to Nuts and Spices, picked up a couple of dry fruit varieties and called it quits at Spencers.

The next halt was Ispahani Center. Man, this place used to so 'happening', but now, its quite practically a desolate place. Only the famous coffee shop had some people in it, but again it was not packed like usual.

We decided to have coffee and scanned the menu. After reading out all the fancy named items listed on the menu, we decided on the regular take out coffee. We placed the order and in 2 minutes we regretted it. Reason - the lady who was manning the counter (lady manning a counter - does that count as an oxymoron?) tore open a milk packer with her index finger.

Yes. Thats what she did. Poked her right index finger into one corner of the milk packet, wiggled it around and finally created a hole through which she started transferring the contents of the milk packet to some other vessel.

If you are still wondering as to what is so wrong about it - well please be informed that she did it with bare fingers. No gloves, no other form of protection. Just plain finger as God intended them to be.

We still went ahead with the coffee hoping that ours was made with milk from some other packet opened by someone else using some other better and civilised mechanism to open milk packets.

Anyways, we finished the coffee and drove straight to City Center. Since it was almost 7.30 when we went inside the mall, we decided to simply head straight to the amazing food court. And we sure did. Placed orders at Gangotree, collected the package and we left.

So, as you can see, it was yet another really fruitful evening spent by us. The sad part was that Niluking couldnt join us today too. Maybe he will be there next week....

Now to the ratings:
1. City Center
2. Spencers
Disqualified:
Ispahani

The ratings were made purely using scientific methods based on biological responses of the evaluators.