Making a trip to Costco is a lot of things, but it's nothing like running a regular errand. It's more like training for an Olympic event.
Strength: You'll need some serious muscles to hoist that three-gallon vat of Mayo into your cart, and even more to lift the canoe-sized box they put it in at the checkout line - if you're lucky enough to get a box, that is.
Endurance: So you might have to wait twenty minutes for the old lady at the sample table to thaw out some more coveted Jamaican Jerk meatballs. So nobody ever got anything by giving up! Stick to your guns, men!
Willpower: You really don't need a box of 600 granola bars...but man, when they're stacked so pretty in an on-sale pyramid like that, it sure feels like you do.
Speed: A must-have in the parking lot and especially near the gas pumps. Prepare to slow down once you enter the store though, as the speed limit inside Costco is a strictly-enforced 25 feet per minute.
Agility: Not everyone can maneuver an industrial-sized shopping cart between gaggles of sample-hungry kids and slow-moving old folks, all with a giant blind spot created by the infant carrier. Watch out for wandering toddlers!
Grit: This is perhaps the most important attribute needed to succeed at The Costco Games. Used in events such as Grab the Last Box of Dino Nuggets, There's-the-Shortest-Checkout-Line Bumper Carts, and No Honey - We Are Not Getting A Big Screen TV.
May the best man win!
9 comments:
My biggest challenge is controlling myself around the dried mangos.
We're not getting one THIS WEEK, right honey?
I think you forgot one thing though, and that is how well you can disguise yourself for multiple returns to that sampling of pizza bagels. It gets rough when they find that you have made a return visit to the same kiosk.
This pretty much sums up costco shopping, Brittany. You've got a talent for it (summing and shopping).
Mark, the trick is to carry around an industrial-sized cat litter bag for the second round(do they have industrial sized cats, I wonder?) and cover your face with it. And if you say thank you and smile, you sometimes don't need a disguise.
Do you guys know what I would do for a Costco?!!! Great blog Brittany. Kiss the boy for his Grandma and buy him the granola bars.
let me just say AMEN to that. especially when you have a child adn it is snowing! sheesh. we love truman over here by the way.
you are lucky to have a Costco. Your kids will be lucky to eat ketchup from a vat.
Brittany -- You make me smile!
Not for the faint hearted, that sums it all up!
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