Welcome to Costco

Our Wednesday morning speaker at coffee was Costco and I've never wanted a Costco card before, but her pitch was so compelling I just had to sign up.
She told me to visit Costco the following day and let them know I had applied and get a temporary card.  Whoo hoo!

As I approached the Costco parking lot I wondered what I had gotten myself into.  This place is huge! I completed my application but wasn't able to add Left Brain to the credit card for some reason.  The sweet lady helping me said to go ahead and do my shopping and check with her on the way out, she'd make some calls for me.

I timidly approached the crowd pushing a shopping cart the size of a small barge.  Yikes, this is scary.  I wondered up and down a few aisles and was amazed at everything available.  


Now don't get me wrong, I've been in a Costco a couple of times with family and friends, but this is the first time I'd entered without backup.  

Where else can you buy groceries, clothes, tires, appliances, a kidney...oh wait, no...that wasn't a sign for a kidney.  My bad.

I found my chicken pot pies that were on special and a big box of spanakopita.  I guess I don't need to say big box, everything is supersized.  I grabbed a pair of leggings, some chips and a huge bag of dark chocolate with blueberries.  

I managed to get checked out and then flagged down the lady helping me before.  She got the credit card people on the phone and handed it to me.  Basically we went through the entire process over the phone, only this time a man was repeating everything back to me to assure accuracy so it took much longer.  It was okay until we got to the part where he had to read the entire terms of the agreement to me.  You know, the part you usually skip and just hit submit.  This took about 30 - 45 minutes.  I watched my frozen items  thawing in the cart and struggled to hold on to the last bit of my patience.  Patience is a virtue...just not one of mine.

Finally I was free and after struggling to find my car I headed to the gas pumps.  My first attempt took me to the exit and I needed to circle all the way back around to enter properly.  As I turned in I noticed each pump had about ten cars waiting their turn.  Oh screw this.  I left the line and went to a different gas station.  I paid more, but saved a bit of sanity.

I got home just in time to stick the mostly frozen items into the freezer, filling it to capacity.  I wiggled into my swimsuit to go play water volleyball as I desperately needed some physical activity at this point.  Left Brain asked how things went and I just said "there's a story...later" and kept heading out.

After the card arrives, I'll take Left Brain in with me to get added on.  He's never been in any Costco before, so he's in for a thrill.

Long Live the Queen of Costco