Waterloo Costco

Don’t Go Flat at WATERLOO COSCO

I currently have a love hate relationship with WATERLOO COSTCO.  I certainly love walking the aisles and sampling food.  I can literally fill up on quarter muffin samples the size of a normal mortal muffin, cheeses, various cold cuts, pastas lemon-aid and just about anything else they sell, and they sell most everything.  They have great deals if you don’t mind buying everything in super sizes which could last the average person months or years rather than weeks.

My problem, the hate part, came on December 2, 2018 at 5:15.  It was pouring rain, one of those cats and dogs evenings, cold  too!  We had just finished shopping and drove our car closer to the entrance, loaded everything in the trunk, when we discovered the front driver’s tire was flat.

Fortunately, I was parked right beside the bay door of their automotive center.  I mean if you are going to get a flat tire why not in front of a garage where they fix that sort of thing...right.

Unfortunately, I had to unpack everything and put it in the back seat so I could get at my donought sized spare tire.

Then I got out into the wet, cold blustery night and walked towards the light and warmth of the bright bay doors of the garage.  There was no way in, so I had to go around to the front of the store and get in line, the long line at the automotive counter.

I read a sign which read they were fully booked for snow tire rotation and it was now on a first come first serve basis...foreshadowing?!

Well, yes.  When my turn came.  I stated, “Hi I’m parked in front of one of your bay doors with a flat tire I got while in your parking lot.  Could you please fix that for me?”

“Why sure, would you like to make an appointment for Thursday?”

“I was thinking now, today, as I mentioned I am actually partially blocking one of your bay doors with my car and it has a flat tire.”

“Okay then, maybe Wednesday at the earliest.”

“Listen, normally I would change it myself but I have a heart condition and I really can’t do that sort of thing any more and like I said...”

“Sorry, can’t do it you have to make an appointment.”

I left.

I then phoned the motor league CAA they arrived in 25 minutes and with orange lights flashing changed my tire right in front of the  WATERLOO COSCO automotive center bay door.

I sat dry in my car as the burly CAA guy jacked up the car.  I thought how ironic is this, right it front of the WATERLOO COSTCO garage CAA comes to the rescue.  Irony, that was lost on the COSCO manager when I lodged my complaint about how oblivious and insensitive large corporations are to the little guy...do like their muffins though.