Creepy time at the mall

I needed to take a test this morning. The testing center is located in a mall not too far from my house. When I arrived at the mall it was closed. Not just closed, but out of business. I found a security guard nearby and asked him where the testing center was. He told me it was in the mall and only one door was open.

When I walked into the mall (through the one open door), I was shocked. All of the stores were closed and vacated. The place was a ghost town. He told me to go through the mall and up an escalator to the testing center. As I walked through the mall I couldn't help but feel that I was in a horror movie. I mean, this was so creepy. Picture the Cambridegside Galleria, but with all the stores vacated. It was a big mall.

Sure enough, the testing center was open and there were a lot of people there (they do technology testing). I was amazed that no one thought it strange that we are all in a creepy abandoned mall.

Apparently they are going to tear down the Mall and the testing center is the last tenant to leave (the receptionist said that there was a shoe store still open, but I didn't wander around to find it).

So anyway, there isn't much point to my story other than I had to go to a creepy mall today. Plus, it was pouting rain and kind of dark.

I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

If you don't believe me (or don't care), here is a link to the mall. It is called the Fashion Mall. I guess it was destroyed in a hurricane.
http://fort.lauderdale.retailguide.com/data/m101582.htm