Chapter 5: Shopping…fun for girls not so much for us, except in my dreams.
February 17, 2007
I guess the title of this entry says it all, but I am going to elaborate on it of course. Before I do so, you girls need to learn that we do hate shopping. Oh don’t get me wrong, we love going and buying some new stuff, but just doing that. Going into the store, buying what we want and off we go. No, we don’t like walking the whole mall, looking at every single store, to then end up in the first store you visited because you didn’t find anything better in the others. Yeah, surprisingly enough, it is not so fun.
So it all started as a normal Saturday. Yeah, all my days start normally, nothing too exciting really. It is kind of boring and monotonous, I won’t lie to you, but at least I wake up under a roof and in a bed right? Yeah, we have to appreciate what we have. And no, that wasn’t sarcastic, even though it sounded like it. Anyway, as I was saying, I woke up at around 1:00 PM. I wanted to continue sleeping, even though I hadn’t really dreamt anything, but I felt really tired for some reason. Maybe the school week tired me out, Saint Valentines and all that. Having to sell flowers and balloons and all that for class funds, you know the drill.
When I really woke up, you know after changing clothes, cleaning my face and doing all the morning process, I noticed I really needed some new outfits. At first I felt weird, “what am I doing thinking about clothes”. Then again, I only had one pair of pants and three different t-shirts, all of which I used for a five week long school time. Although I really didn’t pay attention to what people said or thought, sometimes it felt kind of embarrassing to go to school on Thursday with the same clothes I had gone with on Monday. Plus, they were just plain old. So I decided buy some t-shirts, to have some variation.
After I ate some breakfast, and by breakfast I mean cereal and some orange juice, I went to my mother’s room. She was laying there in bed with my father watching a movie.
“What do you want?” She asked. Some love huh? First time they see me in the day and that’s the first four words I get from them. I have grown used to it though, sadly enough.
“I need some new clothes.” I said in a shy way, expecting a scream or something.
“No you don’t.” My mom said. It wasn’t a scream, but still a crappy response.
“I just have three t-shirts to go to school.” I replied.
“That is why I clean them every Wednesday so you can re-use them the next two days.” My mom said.
“It is embarrassing mother! Plus they are just…old.” I replied.
“Embarrassing why son?” My dad asked.
“Because…” I replied. Only word I could actually say. I didn’t feel like giving an explanation.
“Because what? Maybe you can give us a good explanation, or come up with a very good excuse, to convince us.” My dad added.
“Well it just is. I mean going to school on a Thursday with the same shirt I went in on Monday, it just sucks.” I replied.
“Well yeah, but that is why they invented washing machines son.” My dad said, as if I was some stupid kid. But I tried to stay patient and cool.
“I know. I don’t mind re-using my clothes. I just don’t like re-using them so quickly. Shirts aren’t that pricey anyway. They are pretty cheap.” I replied.
“We know son, we are not dumb.” My dad replied.
“Alright. I will give you some money.” My mom said.
“What?” My dad said, talking to my mom, and at the same time I yelled “Yes!”
“But…but you will just buy two t-shirts, that way you can have one t-shirt for each day.” My mom said. Although it was a low blow, it was good enough…I guess.
“Fine. Thanks.” I said, as I picked up the money.
“Wait!” My mother yelled as I was walking out the room. “You forgot the change for the bus.”
“Can’t I borrow your car?” I asked, knowing the answer to that question already.
“Yeah right.” My dad said sarcastically.
“You will be able to use a car when you have the money to buy your own. Now come here grab the change before I change my mind.” My mom said. So I went and actually paused for a second before grabbing the change. “Now go on.” I caved, picked up the change and off I went.
I really didn’t like public buses, not only were they dirty 90% of the times but they were just 100% dirty. Although it was just interesting and sometimes annoying, to see all the variation of people that went into those buses. Soccer moms with their children, old men and old women, whom most people really didn’t care about, they just plain ignored them, which was pretty rude in my opinion. Or the typical teenagers that take the bus to go to the shopping mall, just like me, except they were always in a group of four or six. Me? I was alone.
The bus ride was pretty eternal, or at least it seemed like it to me, but I had finally arrived at the shopping mall. This was a place I almost never went to. I really don’t like shopping, at all. Actually, “don’t like” is an understatement, I hate it, hence why I only have three t-shirts. I don’t know why people love it so much, women especially. It is just too boring. Walking gazillion miles, looking at the same crap over and over again just in different places with different names. I don’t know, I don’t really get it.
As much as I hated it though, I had to do it, so I went right into the shopping mall because I didn’t want to lose my precious time in this place, although it wasn’t like I really had much to do with it, except for my chores and stuff of course. So I went in and went directly into the first clothing store I saw.
“Welcome, are you looking for clothes for your girlfriend?” A woman in the entrance asked me.
“No, I don’t have a girlfriend.” I said and she gave me a weird look.
“Oh.” She said. “Okay.” So I decided to keep looking around the store.
“What are you looking for sir?” The woman asked.
“Some shirts…where are the men shirts?” I asked and she covered her mouse to cover her laugh.
“This is a women only store, sir.” She said as she kept holding her laugh.
“Oh. My bad, stupid me.” I said trying to cover my embarrassment. “I don’t come here a lot you know.”
“Yeah, you don’t say.” She replied smiling. I just decided to walk away. “Come again.” She added, as I exited. I also received a few weird looks from almost everyone outside the store.
I really didn’t know what to do because to be honest, I don’t even remember when was the last time I came to this place. I don’t know where the stores are at and I sure as hell don’t want to go through another stupid embarrassment, it was more than enough for the next ten years. So I decided to call Mike, he used to hang out here a lot. I don’t know if he still does, but if anyone knows about the stores here it should be him, or at least he knows more than what I do, anyone does really.
“What’s up buddy?” Mike said when he picked up the phone.
“I need some help.” I said.
“What do you need?” Mike asked.
“I am at the mall right now and…” I said but Mike interrupted me.
“You are at the what?!” Mike asked surprised.
“At the shopping mall. I know, surprising.” I said.
“Take a picture.” Mike said, jokingly.
“Yeah, I will. I will also make sure to mail it you…” I replied sarcastically and he laughed.
“I will be waiting for it then.” Mike replied and kept laughing.
“Anyway, dude, I don’t know where the stores are at and I need to buy two shirts.” I said.
“About time man.” Mike said. “Anyway I was on my way back home but I guess I can stop there for a minute to help you out.”
“I will really appreciate it. Thanks man.” I replied.
“No problem. I will be there in ten minutes.” Mike said.
“Alright, I will be by the main entrance.” I said.
“There are like a million entrances, none of them are the
main one.” Mike replied.
“Well the one with the big arch or whatever in the front.” I said.
“Oh yeah, by the women’s store?” Mike asked.
“Yeah. That one.” I said, still embarrassed.
I just sat down in one of those benches they have in the center of the halls, the one between stores. I sat looking towards that women’s store. All I did was watch everyone go by really. It is surprising how many variations of human beings you can see. Not only physically per say, but the way they dress and act, it is surprising. There were a bunch of couples walking around and that just made me sick. Not in a “I have to throw up” way no, and don’t get me wrong I have nothing against them being together and walking around holding hands and all happy, but it is just sad to see happy couples when you have nothing yourself, you know what I mean? I also noticed that not one single guy went into a store, which made me feel much more embarrassed than what I was before, that’s for sure. But before I knew it, Mike was standing right beside me.
“Ready to go do something you haven’t done since you were born?” Mike said jokingly.
“Ha…ha…really funny.” I replied.
“Let me explain to you how this works.” Mike started and I thought he was been serious. “You have to walk into the store, pick the shirt you want, and then you go to this cashier thing and then you pay them and they let you keep the shirt.” He said jokingly and laughed.
“I am serious dude. Not funny.” I replied getting pissed.
“My bad. Anyway, what are you looking for?” Mike asked.
“I don’t know, any two shirts, good ones and preferably new.” I said.
“They don’t sell used shirts.” Mike replied.
“I know that…just…just walk.” I said.
“Okay okay.” Mike said as he started walking. “Well they have good shirts over here at this one but they are kind of pricey.”
“I have twenty bucks.” I said.
“That’s it?!” Mike asked.
“Yeah man.” I replied.
“Wow. Well I guess that just leaves us with very few options.” Mike said and stopped walking.
“What is wrong?” I asked.
“I am thinking, hold on.” Mike said.
“Should I sit? I am sure this is going to take a while, you thinking and all that.” I said jokingly.
“If I can’t joke, you can’t joke.” Mike said and I just stopped smiling.
“Fair enough.” I replied.
“I got it. Follow me.” Mike said while he started walking, and pretty fast too.
“Okay, wait up.” I said trying to catch up.
We walked for a little bit. I would say we walked for like an hour, but that would be exaggerating. It was actually like five minutes. I hadn’t notice, nor did I know how big this thing actually was. I was just surprised at how big it all was. To tell you the truth, I still didn’t like it. It just felt…cold.
“Here we are.” Mike said as he went into a store.
This one was a men only store, it was noticeable from the moment you went in. I really don’t get it why they make stores for only one kind of gender. I mean come on, safe some space and expand your audience, wouldn’t you sell more? But whatever, it is not my problem I guess.
“Hello there. How can I help you gentlemen?” A beautiful blonde said as we went in.
“We are looking for some shirts for this guy over here.” Mike said as he patted me on the back.
“Sure thing, what size?” The blonde asked.
“Hmm..I am not sure.” I said smiling but she gave me a bad look and Mike saved me from yet another embarrassment.
“Medium, medium. He doesn’t come here a lot.” Mike said and the blonde just smiled, but still giving me that look, the one that you know that nothing good was going through her head.
“No problem. Follow me.” She said. “Here you go these are our latest arrivals. They got here yesterday, they are totally on fashion right now and better yet, we have them on special. Buy two for twenty-five dollars.”
“Damn. That’s awesome. Thanks.” Mike said.
“Sure. If you need anything else I will be right over there.” She said pointing towards the counter.
“Alright, thanks.” I replied and she smiled and left.
“Maybe I should get a couple of these shirts for myself as well.” Mike said as he browsed through them.
“I don’t have twenty-five bucks man. I am short by five” I said.
“Don’t worry about that. You can borrow five bucks from me man.” Mike said.
“I can’t do that dude. I don’t know how long it will be until I can pay you back.” I said.
“Hey don’t worry about it man. It is just five dollars; you just pick what you need alright?” Mike said.
“Thanks man.” I said.
We started browsing through the shirts. I really couldn’t understand why they were in such fashion because most of them were out-of-the-park ugly. I really don’t get this ‘fashion’ thing either, it is like the media just tells you what to wear and what to like instead of you just picking out what you like because you simply like it, not because someone told you to like it.
“Whoa, this one is nice.” Mike said picking one out and I actually liked it. “You should get this one, I already have two.”
“Yeah. This one is nice.” I said.
“Alright so one more to go for you right?” Mike said.
“Yes. I really don’t like most of the ones that are here but I will see if I can find something.” I said while Mike gave me a weird look and after a few seconds I knew why, when I noticed the blonde walking right past me. “Damn it dude. Let me know next time.” I whispered.
“I tried man, but you wouldn’t just shut up.” Mike whispered back.
“Anyway, help me find a good one.” I said as we kept browsing, and browsing, and browsing. Boy there was nothing good there. Then in that moment the blonde came towards us.
“Do you like this one?” She said showing me a very neat shirt.
“Actually I do.” I said while grabbing it from her hands to get a better view. “Thanks.”
“Not a problem.” She said smiling at me and I had no choice but to smile back. Perhaps I miss-judged her or maybe she just wanted me to get the heck out of there. “So that would be all?”
“Yes ma’am.” I said.
“Name is Laura.” She said.
“Laura?” I asked.
“Yes.” She said.
“Well nice to meet you Laura, I am Mike and this is Robert.” Mike said.
“Well it is nice to meet you guys. Follow me.” Laura said taking us to the cashier. “You guys paying together or apart?”
“Apart.” I answered.
“Together.” Mike said and she just gave us a look, letting us know that we needed to decide. “I will pay with my Credit Card and you give me the twenty bucks.”
“Alright.” I said taking out the $20 and handing them over.
“That would be fifty-seven dollars with sixty-eight cents please” Laura said.
“Here you go.” Mike said.
“Identification please?” Laura asked.
“Sure thing.” Mike said taking out his I.D. “Here you go.”
“Thank you.” Laura said while checking the I.D. “Alright that would be all. Thank you very much and I hope you guys enjoy those shirts.
“Why thank you Laura.” Mike said.
“Thank you very much ma’am…I mean Laura.” I said and she smiled at me.
“No problem, Robert.” Laura said, still smiling. I smiled back as we walked away.
“Are you stupid?!” Mike said outside the store.
“What are you talking about?” I asked.
“She was totally hitting on you dude.” Mike said.
“No she wasn’t.” I replied.
“Yes she was! I bet that if you go in there and ask for her number, she would give it to you.” Mike said.
?
??I really doubt that.” I said.
“Well you won’t know if you don’t try right?” Mike said.
“I won’t do it man. Anyway I have a bus to catch; I will talk to you later.” I said trying to change the subject.
“Come on man, don’t be such a pussy. Go for it. If you don’t, I will.” Mike said.
“Forget about it man, let’s go.” I said.
“Fine, but you are not taking the bus. I can give you a ride, and before we leave let’s get something to eat. I pay.” Mike offered.
“No man, come on, I can’t keep letting you do me favors. I already owe you too much.” I replied.
“Dude chill. What are friends for? You don’t owe me anything. Come on lets go.” Mike said.
“Fine…thank you man. Thank you very much.” I said.
Once we arrived at the eating plaza, where there were a bunch of fast food and a bunch of tables, it was pretty full. We went to Burger King and we stood in the line for about thirty minutes because I really didn’t notice that there was another line moving way faster. Anyway, after we got our order we spent like ten minutes looking for sits. We finally found a table where we could sit down and eat. Once we were done, we left.
I got home in a matter of minutes really. Going in the car was way faster than on the bus, since we didn’t have to make unnecessary stops. Plus, it was clean. As soon as I got home I went directly into my room. I didn’t hear my parents, I wasn’t even sure if they were home. I felt tired, maybe from a long day at the shopping mall, although I was there for like two hours or so. So I decided to lay down for a little bit, and before I knew it, I fell asleep.
To my surprise, I dreamt. Of course, right? If I hadn’t dreamt I wouldn’t be writing this entry, I know. Still, I had to write that just so you know that I am changing into dream mode. Or maybe I didn’t? I don’t know. It doesn’t really matter, I wrote it already.
Anyway, once again the dream started with me waking up. I was in my room and for some reason I knew it was Saturday. So I went into my mother’s bedroom, after I got ready, to ask for some money to go shopping. But she wasn’t there. I went downstairs and there she was, eating breakfast with my father. And yes, she was eating real breakfast, eggs and bacon and all that breakfast stuff.
“Hey hun. Good morning.” She said. “Or may I say, good afternoon.” My dad gave a little laugh to mom’s little joke. It was once again 1:00 PM. Which made me wonder why they were eating breakfast in the first place then, but I really didn’t give it much thought.
“Morning.” I said, not caring that it was the afternoon already, for me it was still morning.
“You want some breakfast? I will make you your favorite.” Mom asked.
“Sure.” I replied, wondering what she meant with ‘your favorite’. I sat down besides my father, who was reading the newspaper.
“So, what you doing tonight son?” He asked.
“I am not sure. I was thinking about maybe going to the mall buy some new shirts.” I said.
“Buy? Why you call it that? You mean pick them up?” My mom asked all the way from the kitchen.
“Yeah that. I am sorry, I am just still sleepy.” I said, remembering that ‘money’ didn’t exist in my dream world. Cool, huh? I know. I still don’t know why that’s the case exactly though. Suddenly my dad took a piece of the newspaper and ate it. Yes, he ate a piece of paper.
“Yum. This new burger tastes good.” My dad said. “Taste it son.” He added, as he gave me a piece. I decided to just go for it and see what he was talking about. To my surprise, that piece of paper, of newspaper, tasted like a burger and yes it was really good.
“Damn. That tastes good.” I replied. “How they do that?”
“Do what?” Dad asked.
“You know making a paper taste like burger.” I asked.
“Are you alright son?” Dad asked surprised at my ignorance. “They have done this for quite a while now.”
“What is ‘this’ that you refer to?” I asked.
“Putting eatable paper that tastes like food; it is the best marketing ever invented.” My dad said, still surprised. At first I couldn’t believe what he saying, but after a couple of minutes of silence, I noticed he was definitely serious. Heck, I had tasted it myself.
“Breakfast is ready.” Mom said.
“Lunch you mean?” Dad said and they both laughed.
“Ha…ha…very funny.” I replied grabbing my plate. It did look delicious, whatever it was.
“Enjoy son.” Mom said.
“Thanks.” I said, while I started eating. It was as delicious as it looked. I couldn’t get enough of it, but when I was done my phone rang. It said ‘Lisa’ on it. I didn’t know what Lisa was calling me for, but whatever it was I didn’t want to take the call in front of my parents. “Excuse me” I said while I stood up from the table to take the call. For some reason that seemed weird to my parents.
“Take the call here, son. You know we don’t mind.” Dad said. So I decided to sit back in the table and picked the phone up.
“Hello.” I said while taking the phone to my ear.
“What are you doing?” Lisa said.
“I am eating. Why?” I replied.
“Take the phone off your ear sleepyhead.” Lisa replied and as I took it away from my ear I noticed that it was a video-call.
“Oh. Sorry.” I said smiling.
“So when are you picking me up?” Lisa asked. And before I continue, let me tell you, she looked beautiful. Problem was that I was astonished by her beauty and at the same time I just didn’t know what to answer.
“Ahem. Where to again?” I asked.
“Wow you are really still asleep aren’t you?” Lisa asked and I looked at my parents and they were laughing. “To the seeking mall silly.”
“To the what?” I asked, not knowing what she really meant with ‘seeking’.
“The seeking mall. You are still asleep, definitely.” Lisa said.
“Oh we are going together?” I asked trying to follow her game.
“Duh! Of course. You would be a disaster with clothes if it wasn’t for me.” Lisa said and I am sure she was probably right.
“I will be there in ten minutes then.” I said.
“Alright see you then. Bye bye.” She said as she hung up.
“She is just a friend.” I said, feeling forced to do so, you know as an explanation to my parents.
“Sure.” Dad said smiling.
“Of course she is.” Mom said smiling as well but there was of course some sense of sarcasm behind both of their comments and to be honest, perhaps I knew why.
I went into my room to get changed. Surprisingly enough, for me, I couldn’t find my closet. I was going to scream out to my mother to see if she knew where my closet was. Before I did I saw a little screen in the wall. It was digital and touchable. There was a plastic tube right besides it. I really don’t know how I didn’t notice this before, but then again I didn’t pay much attention to my surroundings in my previous dreams.
There were four squares in the screen, each with a word in it. They were: headwear, upper wear, lower wear and shoes. I clicked first in upper wear. And three new squares popped up. They were: fancy, normal and tropical. I clicked normal. Then another two squares came up and they were: Jackets and shirts. I clicked on shirt and this time a picture of a shirt came up. It looked pretty cool too. I am sure Lisa was the one that picked that one up for me. But I decided to see what else I had in storage, so I clicked on the lower left arrow that appeared on the screen. I kept changing from shirts to shirts until I found the one I really wanted. Then it came right up into the plastic tube that was right besides the screen. I don’t really remember picking out the rest of the clothing; I am just guessing it was pretty much the same process though.
After I was ready and all set I went to the car, my car. It was the same one as last time; I assume everything stays constant in the dream world apparently. As soon as I turned the car on the sa
me female voice welcomed me.
“Welcome Robert. Where to, sir?” She said.
“I am going to Lisa’s house, why?” I asked.
“Yes sir.” She said as the car moved itself outside the house. Then I felt it was raising and it definitely was. Before I knew it I was in a flying car, the sensation was incredible. I won’t lie to you though, it was scary as hell. I ducked a few times thinking the cars were coming right towards me, they were flying at outstanding speeds and my car was driving itself towards God knows where. “Lisa has been advised.”
“About what?” I asked.
“That we are almost there.” She said.
“Of course.” I added.
We had arrived at Lisa’s house. It was a pretty big house and not ordinary either. The first floor was mostly glassed yet you couldn’t look into the inside. I couldn’t make out from what material the second floor was made of but it didn’t look like anything I had seen before.
“Are you staying in the car, sir?” She asked as Lisa was walking out of her house. So I decided to step out of the car. I couldn’t believe how astonishing she looked. Her hair was glowing and she had the most amazing eyes I had ever seen. I don’t know how I hadn’t notice it before. She came right to me and kissed me on the cheek. Oh, and she smelled great too.
“Hey.” Lisa said.
“Hey.” I said kind of shy. I walked towards her door and opened it for her.
“Thank you.” Lisa said smiling.
“Welcome Lisa.” The female voice said. I went around the car and sat into my respective place.
“Where to, sir?” The female voice asked.
“Seeking mall.” I said.
“Which one?” The female voice asked. “There are five thousand and ninety-four seeking malls in the area sir.”
When she said this Lisa couldn’t help but laugh and I couldn’t help but join in as well. “Ernest Plaza, Izna.” Lisa said.
“Is this correct, sir?” The female voice, apparently called Izna, asked me. I looked at Lisa because I really didn’t know what to say, she just looked at me and nodded a yes to me.
“Correct, Izna.” I replied.
“Alright then. Off we go.” Izna said.
I really don’t remember the conversation we had on the way to the mall. I don’t even know if we talked at all or not. To be honest I do remember an image of Lisa talking to me and laughing, but it just seems like those scenes in the movies where you see the scene but it is all without audio. Well it was something like that.
What I do remember is when we arrived at the mall, which I still couldn’t understand why they called it “seeking mall” but anyway, I decided to play along as always. It was really outstanding because in the center of the mall, flying over it, were the words “Ernest Plaza” in hologram, blue colored. Then we descended into a platform with a screen on the left. My window, the driver’s one, disappeared. Yes, it just disappeared instead of me rolling it down, it disappeared. Anyway, I did some stuff on the screen which right now I really don’t remember and then a voice said “please step off your car.” And so we did and walked away from the platform. When we were off the platform, my car disappeared. It didn’t disappear per say, the platform took it down with her.
“Where did it go?!” I said.
“To the parking lot…Are you alright?” Lisa asked.
“I knew that. I was just kidding.” I said trying to cover my ignorance, once again.
As we walked towards the entrance of the mall there were two holographic signs. The one in the left, in green, read “Traditional Seeking” with a couple of doors below it. The one on the right, in red, read “Fast Seeking” with only one door below it.
“Which one you want to use today?” Lisa asked.
“The Fast Seeking.” I said for mere curiousness.
“Alright. We can always change while in there. Hold my hand” Lisa said.
As we went into the Fast Seeking doors, I had a weird sensation through my whole body, but I couldn’t quite place it. I don’t know if it was because I was holding Lisa’s hand or what, but it was definitely weird. Once we were inside we stopped holding hands though.
Right in front of us stood a big black screen. It was touchable and it had many store names with their respective signs divided in two columns.
“Maybe we should start with this one.” Lisa said as she touched it. When she touched it, the big black screen immediately changed into the entrance of the store. We walked into the store from it. I looked behind me and I couldn’t see where we had come from. There was nothing but a door there now, and on top of it a sign that read “Fast Seeking”, again in red. Besides it was what I have come to known as the traditional entrance, where you could see people walking in the mall. The store was pretty ordinary. Or at least it seemed like it at first.
“You should get this one.” Lisa said pulling out a very nice green polo.
“I agree.” I said being sure that I couldn’t really argue with her. When we went to the cashier, I noticed there was really no cashier at all. There was just a girl standing there, with a screen before her.
“Hello, how you guys doing?” She greeted us.
“We are good. How are you Laura?” Lisa said.
“I am good thank you.” Laura said. She was Laura too?! I know, that is the first thought that came into my mind as well. Freaky isn’t it? They do say that you dream what you have in your subconscious, so maybe that was it. And now that I think of it, not only were they called the same, but they looked the same too.
“Please place your finger here, Robert.” Laura said, pointing at a mini screen that was in the counter. Right after I did a picture of me appeared on the screen. “Alright you are good to go. You have two shirts left for this month. Enjoy.”
“Two left?” I asked as Lisa pulled me out.
“Yes. You can only get two more until the month is over.” Lisa said. “Are you still sleepy or simply having amnesia?”
“I don’t know what is going on. I am not remembering a lot of stuff lately.” I answered.
“You don’t say.” Lisa said sarcastically. “Anyway, Fast or Traditional?” and I actually thought about it but I just wanted to see how the mall looked.
“Traditional.” I said.
“Really?” Lisa asked.
“Yeah. I feel like walking.” I answered.
“Alright, then let’s go grab something to eat because I am starving.” Lisa said.
This time instead of going through the Fast Seeking door we went through the traditional ones. We were in the mall halls and damn that thing was huge. The roof was amazing. It had all this holographic signs on the very top and on the sides there were moving ads of different products that were available.
“Come to Ernest Specialties for the all new Xing-Four.” One of them said with a moving white skateboard. Whatever it was, it sounded and looked awesome. I was just astonished looking at everything; it was just so amazing, so jaw-dropping. I wish everyone I knew could see what I saw.
Before I knew it we had arrived at the eating area. Right in front of us was a big screen with like a map of the whole thing. It said which tables were available and which weren’t. Those that weren’t available had a timer over them, letting us know for how long have the people been there and whether or not they had their food with them or not. Lisa just clicked on a table of two and she made me click on one of the chairs. We walked towards our table and I had to sit on the chair that I had previously touched in the map.
“It has a DNA recognition, remember?” Lisa explained. It meant that when I touched the sit back there in the map it had stored some DNA information from my body and I was the only one that could sit in that chair, that way no one could take it from me. I wondered what would happen if someone else sat on it though? Are they spanked or something? So I decided to risk looking foolish again, and asked Lisa.
“I kind of forgot this but, what happens to those that sit on the sits that they haven??
?t reserved themselves.” I asked.
“No one has actually done that. Why would you do that?” Lisa asked.
“I don’t know, some people are just like that.” I said.
“Who? Because I don’t know anyone that would do something like that.” Lisa said.
I wasn’t sure in what perfect world she was living, but I just decided to drop the subject. So I guess I will never know.
Right in front of me there was a little screen. This one was, yes you guessed it, touchable as well. It had squares of all the restaurants/fast foods, along with their respective logos, in the screen. Beside them was a waiting time. It let us know how long the food would take if we ordered something from that specific place. I picked out Burger King just for fun, plus it was the longest waiting time: two minutes. When I clicked on Burger King a menu came up and alongside each meal was the picture of that respective meal. What I couldn’t find, at the moment, were the prices. But then I remembered that there was no money here. So I just picked out a Whopper and clicked done and then the screen went under the table or something, but it just went away. Lisa had done the same with a little screen that was in front of her.
“Now we wait?” I asked.
“Yup. What else can you do?” Lisa said smiling. And I looked around me and I understood what she meant. I was surrounded by thousands of tables just like ours, some bigger of course. The whole place had glassed walls so we could see to the outside. I could see all the cars flying and the whole setting on the outside. We were pretty high too. It was, and I say this once again because I will never grow tired of saying it, simply awesome.
In exactly two minutes a slot in my table opened up and my food came right up and so did Lisa’s. The food came right to us, without waitress or anything, it just appeared from below our table. How? I don’t know but right before I could get a bite, I woke up.