Could you do this?
By perrygunight
@perrygunight (555)
United States
April 30, 2007 3:22pm CST
I was listening to an interview on the radio this morning. A store owner in the mall where a guy ran around shooting people at random yesterday was describing the experience. After saying how frightening it was and how there were so many people running and screaming, he was asked if he planned on opening his store today, less than 24 hours after it happened. His response: "Oh, yes sir." But wait; there's more. His store is in a kiosk in the middle of the mall. It doesn't even have walls. Would you be brave enough to do this?
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@gadget_kat (412)
• United States
30 Apr 07
I think I could be able to do it. The people who run those kiosks depend on those earnings. There's always going to be a risk. It's just like if you work in a bank or in a convenience store, and you get held up. People get over it, and they get back to work. Same with school shootings. The Virginia Tech students had a week to deal with the loss of classmates and friends, and to deal with their own feelings of fear. But on the first day that classes were in session again, most students showed up. Whether they were fearful or not of the same thing happening, they had to move on.
@perrygunight (555)
• United States
30 Apr 07
The school and the mall are probably safer now than before, as are most places right after something like that happens, come to think of it. And that's a good point about the people depending on those earnings.
@carlaabt (3504)
• United States
30 Apr 07
I would be a little bit nervous, but yeah, I would go back to work. What are the chances of it happening again at the same place? A lot less likely than it happening somewhere else right?
Plus like the other poster pointed out, the guy would still need the money.
@perrygunight (555)
• United States
1 May 07
I do hope that mall doesn't turn into one of those deserted ones because shoppers are afraid to go there.
