Diobo

I'll be the first to admit that I never had an eye for shopping, but Shannon had been bugging me all week to drive her to the mall. I could argue that she could just drive herself there, but that would leave me without my new car since she never replaced her old one. So I begrudgingly accepted to take her there that weekend. Ten minutes of the usual traffic chaos later, we arrived at the Colonial Park Mall in eastern Harrisburg. The parking lot was relatively empty, so finding a parking space was easy. I preferred this one over the mall on the south side of the city, not far from downtown and just off the interstate (combined leading to a traffic nightmare). The place was desolate, even more desolate than I expected. The rise of online shopping has really taken its toll on places like malls. Half of the stores were shut down, those that were open were mostly empty, and we saw only two, maybe three people wandering the corridors. "Damn, this place is dismal as fuck," I heard Shannon