LOITERING IN THE STATION MALL

[Floyd]

Are there any rules or laws about loitering in the mall. I'm just curious. Just wondering about certain people that have been in the mall since, oh....1975. I realize some of these people are harmless but they are there, camped out, nevertheless.

[Simba]

I wish there were for those damn cackly teenagers. They stand there in groups blocking the way. Irritating.

[oneofmany]

There are signs that say No Loitering.

[Floyd]

Teenagers also buy stuff. The loitering guy(s) don't.

[oneofmany]

There are enough Security Guards so why can't the Rule be reinforced.

[Ultra54]

There are some dandies there aren't there. Describe some and I will see if I know who you are talking about.

[Ultra54]

The security generally sucks at malls. They are often the but of many a joke.

[SIMBA]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: oneofmany</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There are enough Security Guards so why can't the Rule be reinforced. </div></div>

That's a joke in itself. The wannabe cops.

[*Angel*]

the older men who are there like all day at least buy coffees and what not
theres alot of elderly men who hang out in the food court...but i mean thats like their only socialization they have among other ppl
I say who care...there not bothering anyone

[westend mama]

I work in the Mall, yeah, I understand what you mean. There are a few guys that walk around like they think they own the place, I have nic-named them....Mall Mafia. They think they are "all that", it`s really kinda funny. As far as I know, they`ve never caused any problems, they are just always there.

[Floyd]

HEY ULTRA54

The mall guy has "long beautiful hair".....

Been there since they opened the place. Walks like he's on a mission and I don't really care except when it's busy and I can't get a place to sit because of someone like that.....that's on a coffee drinking mission!

[Macs II]

They don't bother me at all ..after all there aren't too many places older people can go to ...same with the young

[Floyd]

I wasn't referring to the older types. I'm talking about a whole different breed.

[Haseo]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TMI</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: oneofmany</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There are enough Security Guards so why can't the Rule be reinforced. </div></div>

That's a joke in itself. The wannabe cops. </div></div>

i know the security guards but not the new one and i for one they are totally lazy as hell..

[Macs II]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Floyd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I wasn't referring to the older types. I'm talking about a whole different breed.
</div></div>

well I dont go to malls so I wouldn't really know /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif

[Floyd]

Security is lazy? Who said that? Exactly what are these guys supposed to be doing? If they look like they're doing nothing, then there's nothing to do.

Their only job is security..........not mopping floors....

[Floyd]

And I'll bet the security guys would love to be able to bouce out the "mall guy"............they can't until they're told to do so.....but I bet they're waiting!!!!

[Ultra54]

Oh oh, someone hit a nerve there....lol. maybe someone you know is a security guard or maybe yourself? Not that there's anything wrong with that....

[DemonBaby666]

I notice the creepy middle aged men there, i mean like 40ish ones. There's this one guy I always see,he's always always in the mall,hangs out with his buddy in the food court and stares at all the girls walking by. Being a woman, I"m aware of such pervs. it's so obvious. Then there's always the group of old men sitting by the New York Fries that stare as well, makes me mad! And the sh*tty teenagers that think they're punk or whatever are pretty annoying too. And what's with the prostitots? If i ever caught my daughter wearing what these girls wear,I'd kick her a$$ all the way home.

[Ultra54]

I know one of our counselors used to hang out there.

[Floyd]

No...not at all! But really, what do the security guys have to do? D ick! Unless there's a shoplifter or something.

C'mon.....you're Ricky and I'm Julian........we have to be thinking along the same lines.

LOL...........as Ricky would say, "It ain't rocket appliances"

[Ultra54]

You also have a selection of various homosexual washroom hangouts it would seem too.Not that there's anything wrong with that......

[Ultra54]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">C'mon.....you're Ricky and I'm Julian........we have to be thinking along the same lines </div></div>



/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/beerchug.gif /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/beerchug.gif Ya, for sure, I'm on your team.

[Floyd]

Too funny...........I remember years ago when they busted up the "ring" at the K-Mart.......

Don't these guys have homes?

[Ultra54]

who can or dares name the mallrat counselor?

[Ultra54]

"ring"...lololol..can you say glory hole?

[Floyd]

Too disgusting! Bring in Mr. Lahey and Randy!

[Ultra54]

hahaha....in a Bee costume.

[westend mama]

Looking for clients ...lol

[westend mama]

About the washrooms, that is discusting! I have heard storys.

[Floyd]

A bee costume and Mr. Lahey as "Indiannapolis Jones"

Ho

[Intangible]

The Station mall loiterers can't be any worse than the ones at the Market Mall.

Plus, has anyone tried to shop at No Frills on a Saturday morning?

[adigirl]

I know lots of kids who hang out at the mall and do not cause any trouble. We use to hang out there when we were young. You meet up with your friends and check out boys.

Some older people hang out there and drink coffee all day and socialize.

It's a great meeting place for kids and adults. Nothing wrong with it. As long as they are not participating in any criminal activity, go ahead.

It has no impact on my shopping experience. I am too focused on spending money to be bothered lol

[Stickler]

Its not the fact of young teenagers loitering that bothers me its the loud screams when they see a friend they haven't seen in 2 hours or they block traffic in the mall.

[adigirl]

Yeah, teenage girls can be annoying lol They do that anywhere though. In the mall, at school, at the park, on a road, in a bathroom, on the phone or cell, etc...

Shoppers also block traffic the same way. Now THAT drives my nuts!!!

[Ultra54]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> has anyone tried to shop at No Frills on a Saturday morning? </div></div>
Thats a good one. I work with a few older men that all they ever talk about is grocery shopping. Now I know why.

[GRUMPY]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Canadian13</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> they block traffic in the mall. </div></div>

Only if you let them, when I was a kid and an adult was coming you'd step out of the way (in fact if anyone was coming you'd do it) ,now a days some won't and thats fine because they won't be the first to get an elbow in the ribs. I don't mind those who don't see you ,they 99% of the time will move its those that just stand there and sneer.

As for the old guys in the malls,honeys get over yourselves. Not every guy out there is drooling over you and your buffalo butts that are stuffed in stretch pants.

[kim gagnon]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Canadian13</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Its not the fact of young teenagers loitering that bothers me its the loud screams when they see a friend they haven't seen in 2 hours or they block traffic in the mall. </div></div>

yep !!!!!!!

[Xzavia]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: grumpy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

As for the old guys in the malls,honeys get over yourselves. Not every guy out there is drooling over you and your buffalo butts that are stuffed in stretch pants. </div></div>

/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif Gawd I have bad mental images of stretch pants now!!! /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif

Excuse me while I go clean up my coffee I spat out while reading this. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif

[kim gagnon]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: grumpy</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Canadian13</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> they block traffic in the mall. </div></div>

Only if you let them, when I was a kid and an adult was coming you'd step out of the way (in fact if anyone was coming you'd do it) ,now a days some won't and thats fine because they won't be the first to get an elbow in the ribs. I don't mind those who don't see you ,they 99% of the time will move its those that just stand there and sneer.


i think they call them a badonkadonk butt now. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif

As for the old guys in the malls,honeys get over yourselves. Not every guy out there is drooling over you and your buffalo butts that are stuffed in stretch pants. </div></div>

[Kittie]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: grumpy</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Canadian13</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> they block traffic in the mall. </div></div>

As for the old guys in the malls,honeys get over yourselves. Not every guy out there is drooling over you and your buffalo butts that are stuffed in stretch pants.</div></div>

AHHAHAHHAHAHA!!! /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif
BLAH!!

I totally agree with you there though!!!

[washawee]

i'll take the hobo looking guys over the 13 year old girls barely wearing anything in there anyday

[Ultra54]

I had the misfortune of taking my family bowling a few weeks back on a Saturday night and lucky us we got to bowl beside 6, 15 year old girls. I enjoyed the squeeling, screeming, rolling on the floor, shooting the balls 3 at a time, the swearing and especially the yelling of "I love you" to someone across the alley.. Actually the whole package was a treat to see. I left midway through my last game.

[oneofmany]

They get the front wheel of my Jeep Stroller in the back of their SHINS if they don't move.

[B.David]

There's one woman at the mall that kinda looks like Little Nicky but much worse. She freaks me out.

http://www.kinowelt.de/material/news/LittleNicky_001-1_200px.jpg

[chase_me]

Ok i have no problem with these mall people until one comes and sits withme when i am trying to eat lunch OR when the lil nicky one walks up to my baby stroller and rips my canopy back and starts touching my baby. Ok then i have problems because i hate germs near my newborns lol. My kids are 6 and 8 now but i am expecting another one in August and know it will happen again

[Stickler]

If any lil nicky look-alike were to touch my newborn (thats when I do have kids) I would be forced to slap them. Maybe it would somehow straighten out their jaw.

[chase_me]

lmao yeah it makes me sick to my stomach when strangers touch my babies, but most of all when i have the hood up, and my kid was in a travel system so the stroller hood and carseat hood blocked baby completely and she ripped it back to touch him.

don't get me started on mall rats.
have a nickname for each one. they all seem to put in shifts at the mall. it's beyond humourous and just sad now

some of the nicknames: tits, flatback, crack dealer, red and so forth

[Haseo]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: westend mamma</div><div class="ubbcode-body">About the washrooms, that is discusting! I have heard storys. </div></div>

they are natorios. the worst one of all is the key man women's & me's washroom.. the day crew does not klean them only take out the tuner bags and garbage bags. and the night crew does 100X as much as the day crew

[Floyd]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fuge68m</div><div class="ubbcode-body">don't get me started on mall rats.
have a nickname for each one. they all seem to put in shifts at the mall. it's beyond humourous and just sad now

some of the nicknames: tits, flatback, crack dealer, red and so forth </div></div>

C'MON.........describe "Red"........which one is it? Is it the guy with long hair?

[BigDaddyKewl]

I'm saying this in the most polite way possible.

There are alot of mentally challenged people in the malls.

The lil nicky woman, dennis, judy, the tall red headed girl... it goes on.

These people cannot help that they are mentally challenged and have nothing better to do, i feel bad for them. The only one that really bugs me when I am there or when I worked in the mall is the little guy that swears out loud at himself or other people, possibly due to tourettes. But he swears alot, doesn't stop. Scares people and swears around small children. I don't think he should be allowed there unless he is supervised.

[Ultra54]

That guy doesn't have tourettes. He is just a severe scytso. I see him walking around Churchill Plaza. I called the cops about him, he gets out of hand when he drinks, which is much of the time.

[Rmiles]

Every mall I have ever been in, in any city has it's regulars, I notice in the one in the west end it is all old italian guys gocking at your woman. They must spend some money in there otherwise I'm sure they would get the boot.

[DemonBaby666]

Ya man, the market mall is brutal. I hate walking to the entrances, cuz there's always a bunch of em sitting around. Makes me wanna scream "take a godd*mn picture!"

[Rmiles]

Yeah, makes you want to take a poloroid and hand it to them. But it's frustrating for a guy when it's your girl they are staring at. I know she has a nice rack and booty! That's why I'm with her....lol. But they are mine!!! Back of get your own sweetie!!!

[GRUMPY]

Actually you women should enjoy it while you can. Like the question asks, what does an old woman have between her breasts that a old man doesn't? ~ Her belly button.

[Larimar]

I havn't been bothered by any one at the mall yet. No scary ppl for me. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

[jaydee]

why do certain ppl always go to the station mall, like everyday their there walking up and down the mall, either ther or you can seee them at the casino and there thats all they do lol

[haha]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ultra54</div><div class="ubbcode-body">who can or dares name the mallrat counselor? </div></div>

i won't say his name but he should go easy on the black hair dye.

[adigirl]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: moooochi</div><div class="ubbcode-body">why do certain ppl always go to the station mall, like everyday their there walking up and down the mall, either ther or you can seee them at the casino and there thats all they do lol </div></div>

Asked yourself that. Seems you are there "everyday" to make this observation.

[Coach]

Pardon me for being the logical one here....but...if you seem to notice these mallrat people "All the time" and have nicknames for them....that pretty much means you are there EVERY BIT AS MUCH AS THE PEOPLE YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT...am I the only one here who has thought of this.....and maybe those people are talking about you a how wierd YOU are....and why you don't get a job...and about your nickname....balh blah blah....get over yourself people....on the bright side....obviously the complainers here lead terrific lives because they have NOTHING BETTER TO COMPLAIN ABOUT....lol

[adigirl]

That's whay I just said. So yeah, You are not the only one! lol

[Evangeline]

I work in the mall, so that's why I see the same people over and over. The ones I always notice are those middle aged guys who walk around like their bums are on fire, like they are attending to something super urgent, and then you see them pass by again and again, some even just do laps in the store I work in. That one with the dark hair who does it is always talking super loud to whoever he happens to be with at the time flailing his hands around and speed walking at the same time, it's funny since he isn't really going anywhere! So why walk so fast? lol

[jaydee]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: adigirl</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: moooochi</div><div class="ubbcode-body">why do certain ppl always go to the station mall, like everyday their there walking up and down the mall, either ther or you can seee them at the casino and there thats all they do lol </div></div>

Asked yourself that. Seems you are there "everyday" to make this observation. </div></div>

maybe just to waste time? but normally i go there when necessary i always see friends there most the time

[Karl]

Well think when you were younger and going to the mall.

How many times you stood around or walked the mall from one end to the other.

How you stood outside of the movie theater to have a smoke of chat with 10-15 people.

Those days are our days, but it is also the younger crowds days of today and you want to take away what we had years ago from these teenagers of today.

That is what you call two faced individuals and i highly recommend you stay away from such people that want to take away the youths right to freedom.

[jaydee]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ultra54</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I had the misfortune of taking my family bowling a few weeks back on a Saturday night and lucky us we got to bowl beside 6, 15 year old girls. I enjoyed the squeeling, screeming, rolling on the floor, shooting the balls 3 at a time, the swearing and especially the yelling of "I love you" to someone across the alley.. Actually the whole package was a treat to see. I left midway through my last game. </div></div>

i havent went bowling in long time

[Karl]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: moooochi</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ultra54</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I had the misfortune of taking my family bowling a few weeks back on a Saturday night and lucky us we got to bowl beside 6, 15 year old girls. I enjoyed the squeeling, screeming, rolling on the floor, shooting the balls 3 at a time, the swearing and especially the yelling of "I love you" to someone across the alley.. Actually the whole package was a treat to see. I left midway through my last game. </div></div>

i havent went bowling in long time</div></div>

Well we can't all help those who stay indoors all their lives now can we?

[tippikitty]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ultra54</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I had the misfortune of taking my family bowling a few weeks back on a Saturday night and lucky us we got to bowl beside 6, 15 year old girls. I enjoyed the squeeling, screeming, rolling on the floor, shooting the balls 3 at a time, the swearing and especially the yelling of "I love you" to someone across the alley.. Actually the whole package was a treat to see. I left midway through my last game. </div></div>

Well at least they were out bowling and not robbing a store or beating on each other.
There are worse things out there.

[Karl]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: *~TippiKitty~*</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ultra54</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I had the misfortune of taking my family bowling a few weeks back on a Saturday night and lucky us we got to bowl beside 6, 15 year old girls. I enjoyed the squeeling, screeming, rolling on the floor, shooting the balls 3 at a time, the swearing and especially the yelling of "I love you" to someone across the alley.. Actually the whole package was a treat to see. I left midway through my last game. </div></div>

Well at least they were out bowling and not robbing a store or beating on each other.
There are worse things out there. </div></div>

Oh i missed his post.... bahhhhh your just sad you were not their AGE anymore or they never said i love you to you... /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

The elders of society make me laugh so hard cause of this stupidness they portray now today as they were like that or worse when they were young.

[axalon2003]

So the wife and I are down at the mall the other day and decide to go for lunch. It was pretty busy in the food court, as it was 12:30 in the afternoon. We watched seperate tables of St. Mary's students leave their tables FILTHY. They made a huge mess and then just left it there. We commented on it to one of the cleaners, and were told that it happened every day. How is that consodered acceptable? Do their mothers clean up after them at home? If so, then they should bring their mothers to the mall with them.
What is the big deal with cleaning up after yourself?

[GirlNextDoor]

I get a kick out of the italian guy with the sweet geri curl baby mullet who thinks he is gods gift to humanity.Only reason i see him is i get off work in the morning at the mall. Come to think about it, think im gonna start growing out a sweet geri curl mullet.

[millie]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Axalon</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So the wife and I are down at the mall the other day and decide to go for lunch. It was pretty busy in the food court, as it was 12:30 in the afternoon. We watched seperate tables of St. Mary's students leave their tables FILTHY. They made a huge mess and then just left it there. We commented on it to one of the cleaners, and were told that it happened every day. How is that consodered acceptable? Do their mothers clean up after them at home? If so, then they should bring their mothers to the mall with them.
What is the big deal with cleaning up after yourself? </div></div>

On the flip side of that is if everybody cleaned up their tables they wouldn't need as many cleaners.

[b&aMom]

Regarding the St. Mary's students, and their litter habits, you should see the outside of their school! One of our kids was playing indoor soccer there this winter, just finishing last weekend. You could fill a garbage truck with the crap they leave on the ground. Banana peels, half empty containers of pudding, pop cans, you name, it's been there this winter. And then the snow melts... they're slobs. When it was Lakeway, someone would have had our heads for that, and in the mall food court, as well. The only thing we left behind in the food court was dirty ashtrays, and maybe a few drops of pop and a fry on the floor.

[haha]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Link</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There's one woman at the mall that kinda looks like Little Nicky but much worse. She freaks me out.

http://www.kinowelt.de/material/news/LittleNicky_001-1_200px.jpg </div></div>

i actually saw this one today.

[Chaotic Chick]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Operating System Not Found</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I get a kick out of the italian guy with the sweet geri curl baby mullet who thinks he is gods gift to humanity.Only reason i see him is i get off work in the morning at the mall. Come to think about it, think im gonna start growing out a sweet geri curl mullet. </div></div>

Yeah, give me one more reason to leave you! /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

[jaydee]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chaotic Chick</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Operating System Not Found</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I get a kick out of the italian guy with the sweet geri curl baby mullet who thinks he is gods gift to humanity.Only reason i see him is i get off work in the morning at the mall. Come to think about it, think im gonna start growing out a sweet geri curl mullet. </div></div>

Yeah, give me one more reason to leave you! /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif </div></div>

OBJECT X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chaotic Chick]

YES IT IS HIM! He can't keep one name for long. His other personalities won't let him.

[jaydee]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chaotic Chick</div><div class="ubbcode-body">YES IT IS HIM! He can't keep one name for long. His other personalities won't let him.
</div></div>

lol but who is "haha"??????

[haha]

i'm haha

[millie]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chaotic Chick</div><div class="ubbcode-body">YES IT IS HIM! He can't keep one name for long. His other personalities won't let him.
</div></div>

I'm beginning to think that a certain member (or should I call him members) has some mental health issues.When you start carrying on in a thread and your using your different personas with out anyone else adding there has be at least a couple of screws loose.

[Chaotic Chick]

Yes, I am fairly certain that is a sign of some kind of mental health issue!

[jaydee]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ultra54</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I know one of our counselors used to hang out there. </div></div>

counselors??? i think its all the ones on disability that do

[lk_wicked]

as far as teens hanging out in the mall....

where do you want them to hang out. I won't allow my kids to hang out at a bar, that hold's teen dances, at a licenced pool hall, or any pool hall at all.... they are not allowed to go to house parties or friend's houses unless I get the parents phone number for where they want to go, and am assured there will be supervision. They aren't allowed to hang out in school yards or parks after dark. Or be out on the street after dark.

They do go to the malls, only when they have money or a purpose for being there. They are allowed to go to school dances or the movies, of which I pick them up from, because I don't want them on city buses after dark.

Just this week my daughter told me her friends were going to a drinking party and she did not feel comfortable with going. SO she asked if she could go hang out at the mall.

What kind of a fool parent would I be, if I didn't reward her for making a good choice, and allow her to go.

Sure teens can be loud, over zeallous, squeeling and exciting when they see a friend in the mall or whereever.... but at least none of my six kids were ever picked up by the police, charged with any offence, into fighting or drinking or drugs.
Four of my kids are now adults and only two left are 19, and 14.

All in all, I'd rather seen them in the mall, then not see them and worry about what kind of trouble they are really getting into.

[Madmax]

I was a teenager at one time or another.

I miss that life.

[millie]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bluemoon</div><div class="ubbcode-body">as far as teens hanging out in the mall....

where do you want them to hang out. I won't allow my kids to hang out at a bar, that hold's teen dances, at a licenced pool hall, or any pool hall at all.... they are not allowed to go to house parties or friend's houses unless I get the parents phone number for where they want to go, and am assured there will be supervision. They aren't allowed to hang out in school yards or parks after dark. Or be out on the street after dark.

They do go to the malls, only when they have money or a purpose for being there. They are allowed to go to school dances or the movies, of which I pick them up from, because I don't want them on city buses after dark.

Just this week my daughter told me her friends were going to a drinking party and she did not feel comfortable with going. SO she asked if she could go hang out at the mall.

What kind of a fool parent would I be, if I didn't reward her for making a good choice, and allow her to go.

Sure teens can be loud, over zeallous, squeeling and exciting when they see a friend in the mall or whereever.... but at least none of my six kids were ever picked up by the police, charged with any offence, into fighting or drinking or drugs.
Four of my kids are now adults and only two left are 19, and 14.

All in all, I'd rather seen them in the mall, then not see them and worry about what kind of trouble they are really getting into.
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Very true, what is wrong with them hanging out there? If any cause trouble then the trouble makers should get the boot not everyone.

[jaydee]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MadMax</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was a teenager at one time or another.

I miss that life. </div></div>

whoa /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif i thought u were a teen?