"Oh, happy day!"
--"Oh, happy day!"
{In a bigger voice, bending low, then reaching high, trying to place your palms flat on the ceiling and belly-bump the person in front of you out the door}...
"OH, HAP・PY DayAY!"
--"Oh, happy day!"
{Lean forward a bit and really belt it out now}...
"When CostCo comes!"
--"When CostCo comes!"
"When CostCo comes!"
--"When CostCo co.... ...What?!?!?"
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I found this jewel on the internet today. It's a building permit for a new CostCo warehouse to be built in Tarumi Ward, west Kobe."Bit deal!", you say?
"Philistine!", says I. "Ingrate! Spoiled American with warehouse stores like CostCo, HomeDepot and Best Buy dotting your every horizon like gigantic monolithic lunch boxes! I hate you! You with your WalMart, your Target boutique, your WholeFoods!"
Why so vitriolic?
- Because it's expensive, living here! And because I have to drive over an hour to reach the CostCo in Osaka, paying about $25 in tolls to do so (and hence only manage to go 2 or 3 times a year...).
- Because a 70/30 ground beef/pork mix costs me $7.50/lb, and loses 30% of its weight in fat when cooked...
- Because soft drinks are $1 each... on sale...
- Because I can't get some western foods without ordering them from personal importers and waiting anywhere from a week to a month for delivery. And most others, I just can't get at all...
- Because J. detergents are less powerful than Dawn, Joy, Downy or MisterClean...
- Because 6" tortillas at the only supermarket that carries them around here cost $4.50 for 5. Not 5 packs, mind you, just 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, five!
- Because people here eat fish for breakfast, and have never heard of grits (neither has CostCo - oh, well)...
- Because the oh-so-antonymically-named (my word, I invented it! Pay royalties here!) MaxValu down the street charges $2/bagel, $18/lb for cheddar cheese, and $10/lb for tasteless sausages...
- Because Honeydew melons cost $5 for cheap, half-rotten, softball-sized ones, and regularly cost $30-100... EACH!
Have I made my point yet? I rest my case....
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