Oh god, they saw me. Maybe if I don’t make eye contact…Nope.

“What kind of hair straightener do you use?!” I smile and keep walking, quickening my pace. I hear her heels clicking behind me, “Wait! Want me to straighten your hair?!” “No thanks!” I say as I now start running away from the booth lady.

As I slow down,  I see another one. This time I make eye contact, my new strategy. Show no fear. She picks up her balloon animals and starts walking them on a leash around her booth. I keep walking and think to myself, “why does that balloon have a leash and feet?”  

And then I run into another booth, an even creepier one this time. A man wants to give me a free massage. I get angry and give him a sharp “No”, and shoot him a death glare. I did not come to the mall to get a massage from some stranger, or get my hair straightened from a lady that, may I add, wore too much make up, or buy a balloon animal that I can put a leash on it.

What the hell am I going to do with a balloon animal with a leash?  Go jogging with it? Talk to it? Yeah, I don’t think so. These booth people at the mall bother the crap out of me. I come to the mall for one thing only: to buy clothes. Not to be yelled at by some person to buy a worthless product, that I would probably break in a few days. No thanks, don’t want to do that.

If they want me to buy a product, they should have a more effective way than to come up to a person and ask them obnoxious questions. They need a new game plan. Not to just run up to a person, give a forced smile, and then yell at them to come back. Instead they should wait and see if a person is interested in buying a product and walk up to them. That’s how it should work