Uneventful Day At The Mall

Date: Saturday October 24, 2015
Location: Mall - El Paso, TX
Time: 12:10 pm - 1:10 pm

It is a typical autumn day in El Paso, Texas. The nights/early mornings are cool, the day is warm/hot. It's a sunny day, but it is not hot. The mood is calm in the mall. The rest area I observe from is pretty vacant right now. Only a few people are passing through the area.

A man sits down to eat a big cone of ice cream, He is wearing a hunter's cap, blue plaid shirt, and blue jeans. His shoes have the look of the kind an outdoors man would wear. He is wearing glasses and has a mustache. All he is doing is eating his ice cream. He occasionally looks at passersby, but he is focused on the ice cream. None of the people passing by pay attention to him. He eventually leaves.

There is a woman wandering the area. She looks at her cell phone, walks to another spot, and looks at her cell phone again. She does this several times. It seems like she is waiting for someone or looking for someone. She eventually leaves.

A lot of people are looking over the balconies today. A lot of people have comic book super hero-type shirts on also.

People are wearing a wide variety of clothing today. Males are wearing T-shirts, polos, hoodies, flannel, long-sleeved and short-sleeved  shirts. They are wearing jeans, shorts, sweatpants, and dress pants. Male footwear today is sneakers and tennis shoes. Females are wearing shirts, T-shirts, blouses, dresses, and jackets. There are females wearing jeans, track pants, shorts, dress pants, and sweatpants. As far as footwear goes, females are wearing sneakers, tennis shoes, sandals, casual shoes, and more.

There is an older man sitting at a table in the restaurant area. He is just sitting there, watching all the people go by. He has his hand near his mouth, and lightly rubs his lips with his index finger every so often. Perhaps he is people watching. Maybe he is observing the people for his own anthropology fieldwork blog. He leaves the area and goes to a far off bench to my left. Eventually, two young girls sit next to him. They all seem to be related.

The food places have had a steady, if not so large, stream of customers today. The ice cream place, the cinnamon roll place, and the pretzel place have all had customers. The cinnamon roll place has had less customers than usual today.

Today's ethnic groups are: Latino (majority), Caucasian, black/African-American, and Asian. The Asian group is in the minority today (as is often the case). There has been some mixing of ethnic groups, mainly mixed romantic couples. It was usually black/African-American male with a Caucasian female. There seemed to be no mixed groups of friends today.

There have been a lot of romantic couples today. They walk together, holding hands. The mall seems to be a place for couples to hang out at. A lot of families come here together also. Not a very active week.

A young Asian woman walks by with both hands occupied by packages of food. As she is walking, a packet of sauce falls off her food carton and onto the floor. An old man passing by picks up the packet and places it back on the food carton. The young woman smiles and says thank you.