I drove to Skokie the other day to the Old Orchard Mall, just because I felt like driving & letting my Lyra play for a few hours. Once I got there I realized I came on the wrong day. For one thing parking was horrible as fuck. I love their Barnes & Nobles because so far it’s the biggest I’ve seen in the state. I couldn’t get a parking space near there at all. I ended up parking next to Lord & Taylor’s (most Southsiders neva heard bout that store.) and walked the rest of the way. I remember when I took my brother there one day in the summer he told me how hot the girls look but they were bougie to him. At the time I didn’t see it. But that day I did, and man was it ugly, could it have been towards me? I was one of the only black males in that area (I counted 3, and one worked there). I really want to blame the cold especially because of the lack of thank you’s I received trying to be a good samaritan and open the door for others and vice versa didn’t happen as well. I used to want to move there sometime in the next couple of years or sooner, this now deters me. I’ll get over it and assimilate myself among them to do the same.