Hey Drewster? What Time Is It?

I have three watches, all of which have dead batteries. One, the swacth, has a broken wrist band.

So, today, I took a friends advice about getting the batteries done at a watch kiosk in the Galleria, and went.

I haven't been to the Galleria in a very long time. I remember the place as a kid. Because it had two movie theaters back then, we would go all the time. You see, in the 1970s in Houston, it was actually cool enough to make the trek on foot.

So, we would go all the time for movies. The Galleria was only two sections then. One set of 2 (or was it 4?) screens were in Galleria one on the ice rink level and the other set was in Galleria two. Very often when traveling between the two when you realized that it was the other theater that had the film, you would cut through the Magic Pan restaurant.

Today, there are four Gallerias, no Magic Pan and no movie theaters. My first stop was at the Swatch store in Galleria 4 where they did not have the watch band in stock, nor could they order it. (I have now done that on-line). I then moved on to the watch kiosk in the bridge between 1 and 2.

On my way I stopped at Urban Outfitters. Beware the trendy urban stores that open in the Galleria. Translation = They are now to pricey for you.

Waiting for the watches I walked around a bit and thought about the stores there. The Disney store used to have clothes for everyone that sold the Disney brand. Now it is only kid stuff, not so much clothes and more targeted to current projects than over all Disney. Ironically, I was wearing a Donald Duck T-shirt which was one of the last things I ordered from the Disney catalog before they started dropping men's stuff.

Ambercrombie & Fitch, which started out as basically high end prep stuff is now just Amercrombie and is aimed at the young and beautiful. The Gap has moved from 1 to 2. I don't even go in. They don't make clothes for my kind. My kind being larger than a 32 inch waist.

And of course, the place was packed with the young and the beautiful. And I wonder, how do we get a fraction of these people to the theater?

And yes, I have three working watches, one waiting on a new band. I now know what time it is without pulling out my cell phone...