$723. Sam's Club

$723. Sam's Club

Socks, Chicken, Shirts, Bread, Eggs, Chocolate, CDRs, Toilet paper, Cheeses, Scallops, Salmon, Tomatoes, Crap for plants, Beers, Towels, Brocolli, Xbox game (!), Motor Oil ...

5 Physicists(Matt, John, Dave, Sharon, Me), 4 hours, 3 carts, 2 cars, 1 credit card. $723.

Matt was generous and paid for us in advance.

This place was enormous. A converted warehouse, with furniture, electronics, produce, food, clothes, stationery, computers, stacked 4 storeys high. It had 'distributor-sized' versions of everything, selling also at 'distributor's-price.' In more correct terms: gigantenormous portions at a small fraction of the original price. It makes Walmart look like a convenience store (from Dave). Yeah, makes everything look like 7-11.

Here are some random highlights:

A 10lb can of tuna. Yes people, a bowling ball made of tuna.
Watermelons the size of truck wheels.
An aisle with probably a ton of chocolate. I mean it, a ton. My favorite aisle in Sam's club. Kit Kat, Reeses (bought), Peppermint Patties (bought), M&Ms, Whatever the hell else.

Walking around, I thought, 'all that food here is going to end up in someone's gut. How much eating is that?' Then I look around and see the people shopping there. It sure looked like they ate that much. Hey, but they all appeared happy eating that much.

I nearly bought a bag of shrimp, thinking it was $8. I proudly showed Matt my achievement, having found such a magnificient deal. Matt looked at me, looked at the bag of shrimp, and guessed that I must have made a mistake. He said, "that's an expensive bag of shrimp." I looked closely, blanched and thanked him for saving my wallet. It was more like $35.

Nonetheless, I still ended up with a $126 bill. After paying off this debt, my checking account will read $13.77. Awesome; I managed to get broke buying 20lbs of chicken, 10lbs of salmon and 5lbs of scallops. It'll probably last me ages.

Poor John brought along his stat mech notes to study for his Qualifying exam. Well, we'll all be doing that pretty soon.

Dave drove us home in his Audi Quattro. Listened to Coldplay's "Yellow" on the drive home. The music painted the bleak rainy upstate new york forest with a wistful beauty. Saw Dave and Sharon hold hands while the song played on; while their memories played on. I don't mind crappy weekdays if my weekends were always like that.