Shopping (Needs must)
The weather is getting cooler…colder, even…and all our winter things are in storage. We could only bring one suitcase each on the transatlantic journey and we had (rather optimistically as it turns out) hoped to be in a house by now, surrounded by all the stuff we shipped. Instead, it sits in storage just outside of Philadelphia until we get a permanent address. And that has to wait for a job or two to turn up.
So today we had to do some shopping. The good thing is that clothes are a lot cheaper here than they were on the Isle of Man. If I had taken the same amount of money shopping over there, I might have gotten one sweater (jumper in the UK). Here I got four new tops. And on the Island, of course, there was always a good chance that someone else would be wearing the exact same sweater every time you wore it. (We only had a few shops, and they didn’t stock a huge amount of stock.) Here there are endless varieties of clothes. Almost too much choice…but I’ve talked about that before.
On a side note, I think the newly remodelled Millcreek Mall is looking really nice these days. I remember when it was built. In the middle section, there were steps down into sitting areas where the smokers would congregate. There were also tons of pay phones within these areas. (Presumably totally obsolete now that everyone has a cell?) They were dark and smelly and seemed to attract a rather strange group of people who apparently had no where else to go…but maybe that is just my memory playing tricks on me? Anyone else remember them? Were they as bad as I recall?
I hope that none of those “strange people” are reading this! But if you are, do let us know what it was like to be strange in Millcreek Mall 
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