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The opening two graphs of Inky staff writer Thomas Ginsberg’s article today about the post-Holiday rush:
As shoppers snapped back into action yesterday, one self-described Scrooge sat alone in Franklin Mills Mall, surveying and scorning the scene.
“A bunch of idiots!” said Bill Lawn, 74, a Philadelphia retiree calmly sipping coffee and reading a newspaper at Gloria Jean’s Coffee. “People allow their religious beliefs to be so commercialized that they don’t even know what Christmas means anymore.”
You know what they say: Out of the mouths of babes — or, rather, the exact opposite of that.
Now bearing gift cards, shoppers traverse afar [Inky]
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