Costco Shopping 6/23/2021

Since I took the entire day off for the UCLA Transplant Center appointment, I had the afternoon off. I went with my parents to Costco to do some shopping. The plan was also to get a famous Costco hot dog/soft drink combo for $1.50, now that phosphorus is not a worry. However, I felt strangely guilty standing in the food line so I skipped on the hot dog.

Costco was surprisingly crowded at 1:00 pm on a Wednesday. When I went last month, everyone I saw had a mask on. Today, only about 1/3 of the customers were wearing masks, which was higher than I expected, with the Costco located in Tustin/Irvine. All the employees were still fully masked. My parents and I still had our masks on, and no one cared.

The cart was full at checkout. This is what $300 of Costco groceries look like:

The items in the plastic bags were not that expensive. Hugh bag of popcorn were ~$4/each, and two bags of croutons were $7/each. What was expensive was $50 package of flank steak and $15 box of Splenda.

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We almost got into a head-on accident driving to Costco. My dad was driving straight through an intersection with a green light. A minivan (old Toyota Sienna) coming in the opposite direction made a left turn on a red arrow. Luckily my dad was able to swerve to the unoccupied right lane. Since the lap portion of the seatbelt goes right over my kidney transplant site, a head-on collision at any speed would be really bad. We captured the incident on the carcam in my dad’s car, but WordPress does not allow video uploads on a free account so here is a screencap. You can see the Costco at The District on the right.

The wide angle lens in the carcam distorts distances. The minivan looked a lot closer in real life.