Costco Christmas

Okay, Martha and I were at Costco last week.

Christmas is a great time to shop Costco, because it seems that at the end of every aisle there is someone giving out a free sample of some kind of food! Bits of cheese. Fudge. Fancy crackers. Yummy. A tasty cornucopia of free Christmas munchies.

So I approach one of the sample tables. An African-American woman is slicing mini slabs of honey-smoked ham, jabbing each piece with a toothpick and offering samples to passers-by.

She's wearing a Santa hat.

I lean in and whisper to her, "So, do you commute from the North Pole every day?"

"Of course!" she responded, with a twinkle in her eye.

"But," she continues, "I'll let you in on a little secret."

Then she lowered her voice and leaned closer to my ear.

"This isn't ham." she said, "It's really reindeer!"

Now there's a woman with a bona-fide Christmas sense of humour!