Further adventures in Costco shopping:<\/p>\n
Last night, as I’m going back and forth trying to determine if they sell frozen corn-on-the-cob and finally conclude they only sell fresh, so I go back to price it (we’re having a party on Saturday – shrimp & crawdad boil) and I make eye contact with this greeeeeeat big heavy-set black guy who’s working one of the demo stations that I’m about to pass. I love the mid-town Costco because it’s so diverse in the workers and the shoppers, and I’m always bound to get a story out of a trip there, versus the white-bread Overland Park location. Anyway, he had an incredibly expressive face, and despite looking pretty tired, had a smirk about him, and he had a big twang in his voice when he talked. An extra two points to him for looking at me like I might be a cupcake.<\/p>\n
“How are you?” he asks.
“Oh, I’m fine, how are you?” I reply.
He starts sauntering in a semi-circle around his station, like a caged bear. He’s pushing some sort of glass cleaner, and none too happy about it.<\/p>\n
“You wanna watch me clean this mirror for the (raises voice, heavier drawl) FIVE HUNDREDTH AND FIFTY-THIRD TIME today?”<\/p>\n
I am still moving, but I am laughing as I say, “No, no. No thank you, but I do appreciate your style.”<\/p>\n
He says, “I’ll let YOU clean it and that way I’ll only have cleaned it five hundred and fifty-TWO times today.”<\/p>\n
I have the best times at Costco. Unless I’m in line behind three gay men shopping for New Year’s Eve. That tried my patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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