Generally, when you talk about going to the mall after Thanksgiving, you probably picture hordes of assholes shoving and screaming their way through retail establishments, a sight and experience enough to push most people to shop online, or at the very least, to feel great sympathy for me, as I work (part time, anyway) in retail.

However, I am smart, which is to say, I took that whole extended weekend off. And I’ll be making all my Christmas related purchases the following Friday, when we’ve got “Employee Appreciation” day: 40% all items in the store (our regular discount is 33%).

However, this post is not about shopping. As a member of “The Fun Committee” at my Office job, I’ve had my interest piqued by what I’ve hard about the National Mall post Thanksgiving: namely, that it’s empty: deserted, nada, no one, adios! All the museums are open, but because most people are traveling, or recovering from traveling, or recovering from visiting relatives, Saturday and Sunday makes for some empty — but open! — museums and green places. So I was thinking about passing the word around work to see if any of my coworkers would be interested in an informal museum group outing, but I thought I’d ask around the DC blogosphere to verify that what I’ve hard is correct: is, in fact, the Mall dead dead dead post Thanksgiving?