So I had my daughter and one of her friends with me and decided to brave a Costco visit. They have lots of samples and toys. We tried a lot of samples, but didn't play with the toys much this visit. We went to gets some cheese for the cheese fair on Wednesday at my daughter's after school program. So naturally, what would take me five minutes turned into half an hour. I picked up a pack of Babybel Cheese for the cheese fest and headed to the cashiers. As usual, there was a longer-than-the-supermarket wait. It's finally my turn, and I give the cashier my card, and he tells me that it is expired. "Can we get a manager on aisle 4 please!!" So the manager comes over, and the cashier pleads my case like a champ, "His card expired and he just wants to get the bag of cheese, he'll renew next time." I would have renewed then, but, of course, my MasterCard and Visa are no good at Costco. I have the cash for the cheese, but not for the renewal as well. The manager looks at my accounts and tells me that it has been expired since May, and that he can't let me buy the cheese. So apparently my wife and I hadn't been to Costco since before May, but I'm sure it appeared as if I were a serial non-renewer. That might be plausible if I weren't buying a single 24 pack of Babybels. Yeah, I'm refusing to renew so that I can buy well priced cheese wrapped in wax. The wax is actually really cool. So I lower my head in shame, gather up the kids, leave the cheese, am given back my expired card with a "you don't want to forget this," and head for the door to tell the people who make sure that you aren't shoplifting that there is nothing to check because I couldn't get the cheese for my daughter's cheese tasting. By the way, I chucked the card because it was obviously the cards fault, or maybe I just didn't want the reminder.
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negative