I'm with you aabbcc. When my kids were little and I wasn't working, I used to spend so.much.time at parks and malls. Hated it. Same old, same old. Malls and shops are boring as hell, IMO. But some people enjoy it, obviously.
The parks were obviously better than the malls. My kids still like to visit the parks where we have fond memories. But they sure were boring a lot of the time (empty because in my area most mothers worked).