Mall owners, telemarketers and homework: three causes of modern grief

We get ripped off twice over at malls, then get unsolicited calls from shady salesmen, before having to help the kids with their ‘projects’

17 October 2021 - 00:00

At the peak of the Covid pandemic, when prolonged lockdowns held the economy in a deathly grip, nothing was more blissful than driving into the parking lot of a shopping centre...

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