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Adventures in Costco

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I made my monthly Costco run this morning and what a zoo it was.  The 
parking lot was packed but I lucked out and got a space near the door 
because someone pulled out just as I was coming along. I headed first to 
the cheese department and picked up a some blue cheese and Brie and then 
went to the next aisle to look for the Emmental but the aisle was 
blocked, mainly by two women. One of them had a cart and was facing me 
and her friend was facing away from me. I stopped and waited patiently. 
My cart was about a foot and half behind her. I was in no hurry and 
didn't bother saying anything to get them to move. All of a sudden, the 
woman spun around and took a fast step in my direction. Just one really 
fast step and she whacked her hip on my cart.

I cringed. I figured it must have hurt. She said "Sorry".  I guess she 
realized she had done something wrong and was apologizing for crashing 
into my cart. I simply nodded. She went on her way and I went on mine. 
I went back over to the other side to have another look for one of the 
cheeses I wanted.  All of a sudden this women came storming back toward 
me and started to give me a blast, saying that she was really sore from 
me ramming my cart into her and I didn't even apologize or ask if she 
was hurt.   Well hell, I figured that when she apologized she was 
acknowledging that it was her fault.  I said "I am sorry you were hurt" 
so then she said that I should have apologized when it happened.  No. I 
was sorry that she was hurt, but I was not apologizing for anything. 
She was the one who suddenly turned and crashed into me.  She was 
insisting that I had pushed my cart into her.  That left me in the 
awkward thinking I should find a way to retract my comment that I was 
sorry she was hurt.  I mean... I should be sorry she was hurt,  but I am 
pissed off that she blamed me for her spastic actions.

At any rate, I got most of what I wanted, headed to the check out and it 
was surprisingly fast.  I took my stuff out to the car, returned the 
cart to the cart farm, checked to make sure it was clear to back up. 
Someone had stopped to let me out so he could have the spot. Perfect.

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Adventures in Costco Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> - 2026-06-26 17:41 -0400
  Re: Adventures in Costco Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-26 17:23 -0500
    Re: Adventures in Costco Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-26 17:53 -0500
  Re: Adventures in Costco jmquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> - 2026-06-27 08:37 -0400
    Re: Adventures in Costco Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> - 2026-06-27 11:54 -0400
  Re: Adventures in Costco songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2026-06-27 16:40 -0400
    Re: Adventures in Costco Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> - 2026-06-27 17:58 -0400
      Re: Adventures in Costco Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-27 18:10 -0500

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