Things I Like About America: Episode 2Costco...if you have a Costco membership please shake your own hand right now. Here in the Czech republic we have a Costco-type store called Makro http://www.makro.cz/ which simulates Costco badly.
Reasons why Makro sucks:
1. you really have to have a business to join.
2. no children under 12 allowed.
3. prices are usually more than at the regular store, just bundled in sets of three expensive products.
4. at Christmas time they butcher fish for Christmas dinner right in front of the entrance forcing you to step over streams of coagulating fish blood.
Reasons why Makro rocks:
1. no children under 12 allowed...this is the quietest store you will ever visit.
2. Makro restaurant has good food and is cheap...not $1.50 for a coke and foot-long cheap, but cheap nontheless.
3. Makro carries products from all over the world, meaning sometimes we find stuff we recognize.
4. mostly we go to Makro as a date...quelle romantique!
While we were in Manteca, CA visiting Danny's dad (pictured with us eating foot-longs in the Costco "restaurant") we shopped at Costco often. Soaking in the shopping experience and enjoying all of the deals, we would while away the hours roaming the aisles. Our favorite (well, Roxie's favorite) was the food sample booths. I had always scorned these booths as a sort of white trash way to feed your kids lunch for free. Well, consider me a card carrying member of White Trash for a Better America cuz, doggone it, my young un's did git their vittles and how!! So, fellow Americans, enjoy your rights; your right to be a member of Costco, your right to bring your kids wherever you please no matter how they behave, your right to free cocktail weenies on a stick, your right to fabulous prices and 10 pound jars of peanut butter. Just, kindly, remember us. Tho' we are 7,000 miles away, we join you in the hunt for family-sized economy packaging at a reduced price.
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