50 Fun Things to do in a Mall
- Ride mechanical horses with coins fished out of the reflecting
pond.
- Try pants on backwards at the Grap. Ask the salesperson if
they make your butt look big.
- Dial 900 numbers from demonstration phones in Radio Shlock.
- Sneeze on the sample tray at Heckory Farms and helpfully
volunteer to consume its now unwanted contents.
- At the bottom of an escalator, scream "MY SHOELACES! AAAGH!"
- Ask the sales personnel at the music store whether inflated CD
prices are in pesos or rubles.
- Teach pet store parrots new vocabulary that makes them
unsalable.
- Stomp on ketchup packets at Burger Queen...
- ...but save a few to slurp on as snacks. Tell people that
they're "astronaut food".
- Follow patrons of D. Balton's around while reading aloud from
Dianetics.
- Ask mall cops for stories of World War I.
- Ask a salesman why a particular tv is labeled black and white
and insist that it's a color set. When he disagrees, give him a
strange look and say, "You mean you really can't see it?"
- Construct a new porch deck in the tool department of Snears.
- Wear pancake makeup and new clothes and pose as a fashion
dummy in clothes departments, occasionally screaming without
warning.
- Test mattresses in your pajamas.
- Ask the tobaccanist if his hovercraft is full of eels.
- If you're patient, stare intently into a surveillance camera
for an hour while rocking from side to side.
- Sprint up the down escalator.
- Stare at static on a display tv and challenge other shoppers
whether they, too, can see the "hidden picture".
- Ask appliance personnel if they have any tvs that play only in
Spanish.
- Make unusual requests at the Piercing Pagoda.
- Ask a salesperson in the hardware department how well a
particular saw cuts through bone.
- At the pet store, ask if they have bulk discounts on gerbils,
and whether there's much meat on them.
- Hula dance by the demonstration air conditioner.
- Ask for red-tinted lenses at the optometrist.
- Sneak up on saleswomen at the perfume counter and spray *them*
with your own bottle of Eau de Swanke.
- Rummage through the jelly bean bin at the candy store,
insisting that you lost a contact lens.
- Ask a saleswoman whether a particular shade of panties matches
the color of your beard.
- In the changing rooms, announce in a singsong voice, "I see
London, I see France..."
- Leave on the plastic string connecting a new pair of shoes,
and wander around the mall taking two-inch steps.
- Play the tuba for change.
- Ask the Hamond organ dealer if he can play "Jesus Built My
Hotrod".
- Record belches on electronic sampling keyboards, and perform
gastric versions of Jingle Bells for admiring onlookers.
- Ask the pharmacist at the drugstore which leading cold remedy
will "give you a really wicked buzz".
- Ask the personnel at Peer 1 Imports whether they have "any
giant crap made out of straw".
- "Toast" plastic gag hot dogs in front of the fake fireplace
display.
- Collect stacks of paint brochures and hand them out as
religious tracts.
- Ask the information desk for a stroller, and someone to push
you around in it.
- Change every tv in the electronics department to a station
showing "Saved by the Bell". Chant the dialogue in a robotic
voice, and scream if anyone tries to switch channels on one of
the sets.
- Hang out in the waterbed section of the furniture department
wearing a Navy uniform. Occasionally run around in circles
yelling "scratch one flattop!"
- Hand a stack of pants back to the changing room attendant and
scornfully announce that none of them are "leakproof".
- "Play" the demo modes of video games at the arcade. Make lots
of explosion noises.
- Stand transfixed in front of a mirror bobbing your head up and
down.
- Pay for all your purchases with two-dollar bills to provoke
arguments over whether they're real.
- If it's Christmas, ask the mall Santa to sit on *your* lap.
- Answer any unattended service phones that ring in department
stores and say "Domino's."
- Try on flea collars at the pet store while occasionally
pausing to scratch yourself.
- At the stylist, ask to have the hair on your back permed.
- Show people your driver's license and demand to know "whether
they've seen this man."
- Buy a jawbreaker from the candy store. Return fifteen minutes
later, fish it out of your mouth, and demand to know why it
hasn't turned blue yet.
50 Fun Things to Do in an Elevator
- Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
- Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your kleenex
to other passengers.
- Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering:
"Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!"
- Whistle the first seven notes of "It's a Small World"
incessantly.
- Sell Girl Scout cookies.
- On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of
the elevator.
- Shave.
- Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside
ask: "Got enough air in there?"
- Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear
yours upside-down.
- Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall,
without getting off.
- When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the
doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
- Lean over to another passenger and whisper: "Noogie patrol
coming!"
- Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake
and ask them to call you Admiral.
- One word: Flatulence!
- On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it
stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the
shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
- Do Tai Chi exercises.
- Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then
announce: "I've got new socks on!"
- When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back:
"Oh, not now, damn motion sickness!"
- Give religious tracts to each passenger.
- Meow occasionally.
- Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
- Frown and mutter "gotta go, gotta go" then sigh and say "oops!"
- Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
- Sing "Mary had a little lamb" while continually pushing buttons.
- Holler "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends.
- Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.
- Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You're
one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.
- Burp, and then say "mmmm...tasty!"
- Leave a box between the doors.
- Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for
them.
- Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers
"through" it.
- Start a sing-along.
- When the elevator is silent, look around and ask "is that your
beeper?"
- Play the harmonica.
- Shadow box.
- Say "Ding!" at each floor.
- Lean against the button panel.
- Say "I wonder what all these do" and push the red buttons.
- Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
- Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the
other passengers that this is your "personal space."
- Bring a chair along.
- Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: "Wanna see
wha in muh mouf?"
- Blow spit bubbles.
- Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
- Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host
body."
- Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
- Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
- Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers.
- Stare at your thumb and say "I think it's getting larger."
- If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler "Bad touch!"