I went Christmas shopping at this particular mall a few years ago, which I will never do again. The most vivid memory I have of the experience was this guy in a motorized scooter that did laps around the entire mall. He had this little mechanical speaker thing that would play the first few bars of "Jingle Bells" over and over and over. "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, jingle all the way." And it'd stop there. No "oh what fun." No "one horse open sleigh." Just those first opening bars. Over and over. Over and over.
The security guard told us he was there every single day, and that his little speaker thing had different seasonal tunes. Apparently we were fortunate to miss out on "Peter Cottontail."
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on 2006-09-21 08:03 pm (UTC)I went Christmas shopping at this particular mall a few years ago, which I will never do again. The most vivid memory I have of the experience was this guy in a motorized scooter that did laps around the entire mall. He had this little mechanical speaker thing that would play the first few bars of "Jingle Bells" over and over and over. "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, jingle all the way." And it'd stop there. No "oh what fun." No "one horse open sleigh." Just those first opening bars. Over and over. Over and over.
The security guard told us he was there every single day, and that his little speaker thing had different seasonal tunes. Apparently we were fortunate to miss out on "Peter Cottontail."