The Great Curse of Costco

Last year I went shopping at COSCO and was hit by the COSCO curse. You know it, perhaps not by name, but it is very familiar to you. The errand was a simple one. My wife Jane, asked me to pick up four steaks for dinner. No problem. Heck I’ve done it a hundred times before. I mean how difficult can it be, right! So I set off with my brother-in-law and all the confidence of a rooster in a hen house.
 
I arrived and flashed my membership card. It carries that lovely picture that makes you look like it was lifted from the  FBI most wanted. Anyway I flashed the card and strutted right on through those doors like I owned the place. I’m aware the meat section is all the way to the back and so I don’t even take a cart because I only need four steaks remember.
 
On my way to the back I first wonder through the TV section because I’m a man and the eleventh commandment states that every man must never pass an electronic section without at least contemplating the purchase of the 93” 1080 p with HD ready flat screen with no less than 4 HDMI i/o... and then I snap out of it. I start my way down to the meat section and then call my wife to see if she needs a new IPOD because I only need four steaks and so I can carry one extra item and she was thinking about replacing hers.
 
Well after a conversation with her I set out once again to the meat section and run right past that new juicer that I’ve thought about buying before  but realized I probably didn’t need it and besides I don’t have a cart and only need four steaks. So I set off again and almost make it to the back but I’m interrupted first by the BOOK/DVD/CD table, the new BBQ section and finally halted by the wine and beer section. I wasn’t diverted by the Woodbridge, nor did the Brunello di Montelciano win me but the Sterling Cabernet Sauvignon cinched it.
 
I headed back to the front to get a cart and on my way back I stopped and picked up the juicer, and knowing I was buying some wine I decided to surprise Jane and replace those ugly wine glasses I bought last year with a new set of Crystal MIKASA’s. Then made it to the wine section, picked up 6 bottles of assorted deals and then proceeded to pick up two filets, two racks of lamb, two chickens, a pound of shrimp, enough asparagus, lettuce, mushrooms and water to feed and then sink the navy and finally bagels for the entire east coast.
 
When I got outside and tallied up the damage it was then that I realized I never did get those four steaks.