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Monday, August 02, 2004
1:12 PM

That Foul Temptress Costco

You all know what I mean. Costco (or any similar type of store) is downright evil. It doesn't matter what you intend to go there for, by the time you leave, you end up with at least four other items which you had absolutely no intention of buying when you walked into the store (and usually, they are in the convenient JUMBO size which means whatever you bought will last you until the next ice age - and possibly through it). In my case, I usually end up with closer to 14 other items.

The problem is that Costco has sooo many fun things from computers and games, to a decent selection of wine, to books and kitchenwares. The kitchenwares were what got me this past weekend.

The good thing about Costco is that if you can resist the lure to buy whatever really cool item jumps into your cart on any given day, you are usually ok, because that item (if it was, in fact, really cool) will no doubt be gone the next time you shop there. Problem solved. The problems arise when the item is there time after time. Pleading to be bought. Mocking you. Again, you readers know exactly what I mean.

My latest tormenter was a set of glasses. Glasses for drinks that is (ones for vision would never be even remotely tempting). Like I need any more glassware. We have just about every type of glassware known to man - wine glasses (red, white and champagne), beer mugs, Irish coffee glasses, not to mention about 4 types of regular ol' water glasses. But there was a set at Costco of these very nifty footed glass cooler thingys (I note for the record that I also already have a set of footed coolers, but the Costco ones were taller and just different enough to tempt me). And I coveted those glasses. But reason prevailed. After all, I certainly didn't need them. So I escaped my first Costco run-in with the glasses. And I felt safe in the knowledge that the glasses would be gone soon, probably to much more needy homes than ours. In fact I escaped at least two more times. Every time I was drawn to the glasses. I looked at them. Picked one up. Imagined them in my kitchen. Pictured myself drinking iced tea from them. But I managed to overcome the urge three whole times.

The fourth trip did me in.

We went to Costco on Sunday and the glasses were still there. Mocking me. Begging to come home with me. Leaping into my cart and refusing to get out. And, after watching me covet the glasses so many times, Mark told me to just buy them already (what a great hubby). His justification was that because we break glasses it never hurts to buy more as we will need them at some point anyway (because, after all, I am a major klutz and I am supremely confident that we do not have a complete set of any glasses). What's better than a husband who more or less makes you buy something you want and then gives you what sounds like a perfectly reasonable and logical reason for doing so??

So I finally took the glasses home where they belong. And I carefully unpacked them all. Removed all the annoying tags on all eight glasses. Hand washed them all (dishwasher was full and I couldn't wait to use them). After washing them, I set them on a towel on the counter to drain before I dried them. I waited a few minutes and decided to start drying. I reached for a glass. And I have no idea how, but I managed to knock its neighbor right onto the floor. Seriously. I cannot believe what a clod I am. So I am back to square one with my incomplete sets of glasses. After weeks of torment, I now have seven beautiful footed coolers.

But I did use one yesterday afternoon for iced tea. And I really do think it tasted better than when I drink it out of a "regular" glass.

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