Sun 8 Mar 2009 - no youth in malls during the weekend?!!
i thought this is an open, free, and democratic country. i am terribly disappointed.
imagine to my chagrin and utmost indignation when my rugged-looking male companions were barred from entering ayala center cebu just because we were in a group!!! we live right next door cebu business park and were headed to ayala center to attend the creative cebu event.i asked the guard why he wouldn't let them enter. he simply said we were in a group. oh so you mean that groups like families, barkadas, and students and just anybody else in a group entering the mall's premises are not allowed, i asked him. since when? how come i did not know about this? he just gave us a head-to-foot, demeaning, matapobre look and smirked. that ticked me off. just because we were not dressed to the nines, nor smart-looking, it doesn't mean we have no rights to enter the mall. oh my effin goodness, i couldn't handle it, felt uber insulted and asked for the manager. my friends were still not allowed to enter and i told them to enter at a different entrance, and same thing happened. good lord. and other kids that i know were not allowed to enter.
me and a neighbor who happened to passed by were told to go to a certain office, we were even escorted. but i was surprised we were just brought to the security office, not to any manager's office. anyways, i told them the situation, wanted to hear an explanation regarding why groups are not allowed to enter. two main guys told us that a few kids were in a rumble outside the malls earlier, and it was just for security purposes. i can understand the security reasons, but for crap's sake, they were so prejudicedl, i mean, just because those guys were dressed down, gangly-looking and have messy hair, it doesn't mean they were there to cause trouble. geez. pretty superficial reasons. and oh, they told us that the youth are not allowed inside the malls during weekends. since when?!!! another reason that pissed me off. so i'm going to tell all schools, parents, all the youth not to go to the mall during weekends. argh!!!
this happened hours ago, but i can't get over it. my friends were only able to enter by not coming in together. i understand that the security were just doing their job, it was for security reasons. but man, it was very prejudiced. we did nothing wrong. i wanted to talk to the manager. but i wasn't able to. to think that ayala center cebu is my most favorite place in the world.
to all the youth out there, spend your time wisely, somewhere else.
sad to say, life is unfair. sad reality.
(i have nothing against ayala center cebu, i am just airing out my outrage).
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