While walking around on the historic downtown mall this weekend I noticed that several people were out conducting a poll. I took two minutes out of my life to tell them that the mall (and the village…and this state) needs to ban all indoor smoking, and make you stay at least 25 feet from the main entrance to a building. I love the smokers that put one foot outside their door and claim they are smoking outside. Ugh…I hope you killed all your children in a quick and painless way…and not with diseases due to sucking second hand smoke.

Anyway…I digress. While walking I got a chance to overhear another gentlemen answering the questions. How would he improve the mall you wonder? Let me tell you.

  1. Get rid of all this pedestrian crap. It used to be a road, and it should be again. There is no need for this walking stuff.
  2. Arrest all those tattoo covered youth. If you don’t wear a suit and tie during the day you shouldn’t be outside.
  3. Let us drive up to all the stores (this goes hand in hand with #1). Parallel parking should run right along all these stores.
  4. Get rid of all the northerners. We shouldn’t them them be down here.
  5. Get our road back.

The gentlemen was a fine old southern chap. Why doesn’t the village listen and go back to the good old days of TJ? And if you weren’t born here…what good are you?