What do you get when you cross Costco with college basketball?
I’m still not sure, actually, but I think it has something to do with 7 foot tall shoppers in the coffee aisle. I asked one if she gets a caffeine buzz before a big game?
“Don’t tell anyone, John, but I’m actually here just to test my shoes. They can’t slip, you know.”
Then she stood as silent as a live oak and launched a bag of beans all the way to the cherry danishes, who were arguing with the poppy seed muffins about the nature of sweetness.
“The shoes are good,” that college stalwart told me, and then she disappeared in a big puff of cannabis-like smoke. No one else appeared to even notice!
But when I turned around to get my coffee, the shelves were bare.
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© “John” Lesly Levin 2024
PS — I also saw Shohei Ohtani in the athletic socks aisle, but by that time I had to go home and get the super premium vanilla ice cream in the freezer, so I just smiled at him while secretly getting concerned about that puff of smoke.
