costcordial

i just got back from costco. what a hell hole. there's this frantic madness to collect the most of everything and people are bouncing their carts of other people and frowning and checking prices in the store against prices they've written down from safeway and calculating weight and volume while shushing their children because they've lost count. and then you get these massive line-ups at the tables where they're serving free tiny bites of burritos and sweet and sour chicken and other products made up of pure lard and msg. and it smells so bad and the queue for the damned check out is long and painful and you stand there and watch the free people on the other side shoveling tube steaks and fake cheese slimed nachos into their mouths and grunting and groaning at the little tiny concession that serves pop and certain greasy death and passes it off for food.

costco is gross and i despise it.

then i get dragged over to zellers which is like walmart. it's just this big open room and some truck just drives up and dumps shit in the middle and you sift through it to find something you like for next to nothing. it's a mess and they're notorious for having the longest checkouts cause they hire people who's minds are made of foam. my mom picks up a couple things and we're at the checkout and something needs a price check so the woman puts our sale on hold and helps the next woman and something she has needs a price check. she gets on the phone with the dep't and i swear this woman's mystery priced item couldn't be any more than 50 cents and the cashier is going to get paid for her time, more than what the damned woman is going to pay for the item in question. i say that to my mom really loud and start going of on cost-efficiency and we're standing there for something like 20 mins and finally, finally all the price checks come through and we're permitted to go home.

nightmares. i have a pounding headache now, that dusty messy retail atmosphere, it's nasty.

posted by Courtney at 3:23 p.m.

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