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[Imadickens]

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@bri20 wrote:

I avoid making contact with those kiosk sellers.   

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I do that also. Plus, I either turn my head, and partially my body away and walk quickly passed! If they begin their spiel with me I just say a hearty, " No thank you!" And keep going! These people should be reported as I believe they are not supposed to sell outside of a certain radius of their kiosk. I had a dear friend who had severe allergies to anything sprayed or scented! They would send her into an acute asthma attack!

[Noel7]

@SeaMaiden

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

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@Noel7 wrote:

@catwhisperer

An upscale mall not far from here has those walks.  People come in a side door, usually elders, and take circular walks together.  They have a security guard on duty who lets them in an hour before the mall opens.

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@Noel7  I think you are getting off subject here....the OP was not mall walking. She was shopping. I am sure that the malls can be useful for this senior walking before the mall opens, but  These people are not shopping.

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@SeaMaiden

As you can see, I wasn't speaking to the OP in that post, it was clearly marked as a response to @catwhisperer who was speaking of mall walks.

[Noel7]

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@catwhisperer wrote:

Many people go to malls to walk, for exercise. I do. I feel safer walking around the malls than on public streets.

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Copy for @SeaMaiden

As you can see, Sea Maiden, I was not the person who brought up mall walks, but I did respond to the issue.

As for your comment about it being off topic, sorry, I cannot agree and see no reason for a reprimand.

[Lucky Charm]

Years ago a guy grabbed my hand to look at my nails. I think I hit him on the chin or neck pulling my hand away. He wanted to buff my nails. I was like no way are you going to do anything with that thing! Yuck after all the other (unwashed?) hands he's done? Bleck. I was a kid and I knew better!

[SeaMaiden]

@Noel7  Did not mean it to come across as a reprimand. If that was how you saw it  I apologize. 

[Noel7]

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

@Noel7  Did not mean it to come across as a reprimand. If that was how you saw it  I apologize. 

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Thank you, I appreciate that @SeaMaiden 

[Noel7]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:
Years ago a guy grabbed my hand to look at my nails. I think I hit him on the chin or neck pulling my hand away. He wanted to buff my nails. I was like no way are you going to do anything with that thing! Yuck after all the other (unwashed?) hands he's done? Bleck. I was a kid and I knew better!

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Hi @Lucky Charm I haven't seen you in awhile

I hate it when strangers grab me.  I was at Target last year and saw a necklace I thought my daughter might like, so I held it up to the light.  An elderly woman next to me reached up and grabbed my hand saying she wanted to see it.

I thought I was going to faint.  I had just broken my finger and had a splint on it, which is what she grabbed and twisted.  I said something like, What are you doing, can you not see you grabbed an injury?  Did she apologize?  No, she got all huffy and said, I just wanted to see that necklace.

Man, if she had been younger, I think I would have yelled at her not to touch me.

[Deanie]

I chuckled when I read these stories.  You have not seen anything until you have been to the open air market in Istanbul, Turkey. Called the Grand Bazaar.  Gird your loins.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@Deanie wrote:

I chuckled when I read these stories.  You have not seen anything until you have been to the open air market in Istanbul, Turkey. Called the Grand Bazaar.  Gird your loins.

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Yes, I have shopped there. Quite the experience.

[deeva]

The malls add more of these kiosks around the holidays. I usually try to walk on the upper level if I'm at a two level mall. I don't see as many vendors on the upper level, unless I'm at the Mall of America.