Attack of the giant mayonnaise

Sometimes I think I am the only person in Los Angeles who doesn't love, Love, LOVE Costco. Whenever I express even mild distaste for the store I am told about the low gas prices, the cheap diapers, the excellent baby wipes, the great chicken salad, the cost savings of buying toilet paper in packs of 40, the free food samples, etc, etc. Those things are all true, but they fail to make up for the fact that my local Costco is one of the busiest in the nation which means parking is impossible, the store is packed with frantic people running around with enormous metal carts full of giant jars of mayonnaise and any free sample has a line 20 people long. Additionally, my 1200 sq ft house has no place to put 40 rolls of toilet paper, my husband and I cannot eat 10 lbs of chicken salad and I find the whole scale of the place completely overwhelming.

However, I finally used up all of the diapers from the towering diaper cakes I received as shower gifts and after realizing how expensive those Pampers really are I decided to brave Costco with Baby M. Going to Costco with a baby is doubly dangerous-- not only are there crazy people running around in a shopping frenzy, with that infant seat perched on the cart you can't see where you're going. I felt like I was driving a suburban with hood up. We had several near collisions. To top it off Costco was out of size 2 diapers and the only free sample they had out was hand cream. Who wants to stand in line for half an ounce of lotion? Ten people, evidently. I suppose it wasn't a total loss, I ended up with a year's supply of soap and enough ravioli to last us until June.