Friday, August 22, 2008

Ahhhh.....love to love you, Costco...

Picture this:  Elsie, Dean and I are on an innocent errand to Costco this afternoon to purchase baby formula.  That's it.  Little did we know what atrocities awaited us.

Costco atrocities:
  • "LUV2COK" license plate spotted upon pulling into parking lot.  We tried multiple iterations to try to discern what this meant and are quite confident it's a shortened version of "love to cock". 
  • Overfed "lady" (she was probably in her early 30s) in the parking lot wearing a half-shirt (with fully exposed belly) covered with a macrame shawl.  Elsie thought that maybe she was pregnant.  I know she's just overweight with no fashion sense.
  • Gloria Vanderbilt jeans.  What is this - 1983?!  Sure - I rocked those bitches when I was a tween at the roller rink but, really...
  • A man with an ill-fitting toupee (and he had used a liberal amount of pomade [perhaps in an attempt to make it look more "real"?])
  • The scariest vendor rep on the face of the earth.  She's hawking ECOS laundry detergent (which I've used and think it's awful).  While I was pointing out this flawed detergent to Elsie the rep pounced upon us.  When she opened her mouth I almost passed out.  "Lady" appeared to have all her teeth but oddly they were all pointing in different directions.  How does that happen?
Now - the trip wasn't a total loss.  Dean got some cute outfits.  Elsie and I were also impressed by the number of organic products available.  But, whoa - if this is what goes on in and around Costco is it safe to return for an inexpensive bunch of bananas or a tetra pak of organic soup?

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