The Watcher
If there has ever been a bad day in your life and you begin to think, "man, what's the point?" I have the place for you. The Costco, preferably the one in Victorville, is the utopia for all that you are not and can never be. Sit in the food court for an hour tops (you'll go crazy otherwise) and observe. Plethoras of stretch pants and pootches exaggerated by tight shirts. Mullet tails -- my dad thought the guy was wearing a coon skin hat. There was this elderly lady sporting a butch hair cut, a pink pin-striped cowboy style shirt and cowboy style jeans (which were too high) accompanied by some old colonial shoes. This lady was a grandma 3 generations over. There are also people with bellies everywhere, uncontained by their constricting shirts, and to top it off, the craziest part is that they act as if the world is graced by their presence. I have never left a place feeling more exuberant and full of personal satisfaction of the person I am.

