I was unfortunate enough to be driving along I880 on Monday at 2:00am. Why you may ask? That’s another story I gave Tyler cough medicine at 10:30 after he woke up coughing, something in it caused him to remain awake until 4:00am. I took him in the car to try to get him to go to sleep. It didn’t work.

So anyway here I am driving along I880. As I pass the Southland Mall I see about 15 or so cars parked sporadically in the parking lot. As I kept driving I saw the same thing in the parking lot at Best Buy and a few other places.

Where are these people? The malls have all been closed for a long time now. Did they get trapped inside? Were they in the bathroom taking care of business when the lights went out and they haven’t been able to feel their way out yet? Are some gathered in Sporting Goods using the tents as shelter and barbequing dinner? Seriously where are these people? I don’t know about you but when I drive my car to the mall I always drive it back home. Okay, maybe a couple of them have dead batteries, but 20? I don’t think so.

Maybe the mall parking lot is a meeting place for people going on a long road trip. It might go something like this, “Ok, I’ll drive the van to Disneyland. Let’s meet and Sears and you guys can park your cars in the parking lot for two weeks. It will be safe there.” Who does that?

Did the owners of the cars spend too much money at the mall that they could not afford the trip home? Or maybe the item they purchased was too large and a friend brought a truck and they just forgot to drive the car too? Do these cars belong to the people who can never remember where they parked?

If anybody reading this has ever left their car parked in the mall parking lot overnight please let me know why, so the next time I am driving around at 2:00am I will not have the urge to pull over and help those poor people camped out in Sporting Goods.