Costco Samples

Please excuse the strange analogy, but I had the funniest ironic run-in today.

So I went to Costco, and they happened to have some awesome samples, and some really piss-poor samples. I started talking to the nice sample man, young college guy, clearly not knowing what to do with his life, but hey, he has a job, sort of.

We get to chatting about relationships and samples. He began explaining to me that all this time spent with samples has really had him wondering about his relationships...how so, I ask. 

Here was his story (and yes, I am paraphrasing, the guy was either dumb as rocks, or high on some kind of drug)

*In the worst relationship of my life I was totally treated like a sample. Ya know, at first, you are trying something new out. This chic was trying me out, seeing how I tasted, seeing if she'd enjoy me. At first, she liked me a lot ya know, like a fuckin' good sample...she liked me, liked what I had to offer, even if just in small doses. Then she liked me so much she fuckin' bought the product to take home, well bought me, well not really bought me, but ya know hooked up with me, dated me, but you get it. Each week, when you run out of that great sample, you come back from more, and my girl she kept coming back for more. We enjoyed each other. This went on for a while, ya know. Sometimes you just get sick of that sample, man, you eat it so much, it start tasting the same, and it's not new anymore, or exciting, the new cereal tastes just like the rest of your cereals, the fucking novelty is gone. So you throw it away. You stop buying it. Well mam' my girl stopped buying me, she just stopped being into me, I guess I wasn't interesting anymore. See...like a sample, that gets old and boring, they just throw ya away. Stop buying ya. Those poor samples, ya know, still good products, but just not good enough anymore. 

This kid was a trip, but I took a step back, and realized maybe he has a point. 

Maybe all relationships are like samples. 

People try you out, if they like you, they keep you around for a while, but when they are sick of you, bored of you, don't really like the taste of you anymore, they throw you away. Maybe we are all just good samples flowing around....getting tried out, kept around for a while, and if our taste buds remain the same we are kept around for a while, as soon as those taste buds change, as soon as there is a new product out, we jump ship, ready for the next best thing.

If that is the case, I think I will stay away from the samples from right now, the thought of just living life being tried out, until something better comes along, frankly, makes me lose my appetite.

Until next time.....

"When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love."

-Helen Fielding