Critics say mobile home owners don't pay their fair share of the tax burden and that mobile homes should be more restricted. Mike Buffington is editor of The Jackson Herald. Part of the excursion was to be a visit to the Mall of Georgia, the first for either of us and more of an exploration than a shopping trip. I'd driven around the mall during its construction, but this was the first visit since it opened. The most impressive thing was the way the exterior was designed to resemble a downtown, curious, because malls originally were designed to look like anything but a downtown.
Strange things happen in the fullness of time.
We entered at one end and walked the length. Barbara would enter a shop, and I'd sit on the bench out front. Thursdays must not be great shopping days, for though there were plenty of cars in the parking lots, there were few people in the stores. I watched for 15 minutes while a male clerk at the fragrance counter in Dillards walked aimlessly around, stopping every so often to talk to a female clerk at a competing fragrance counter. Neither of them had a customer nor spoke to anyone else.