Amazing who you can run into at Costco!

[Buckaroo65]

Today, my wife and I went to the COSTCO out on Rosedale hwy. We had finished shopping and went by the meat counter to pick up the best buy in the whole joint a large fresh roasted chicken for $4.99! The guy who takes them off the rack was out on break, but we waited (along with about twenty other people) for him to come back. He was training a lady on how to check them for being done, and how to pull them, and place them in a package.

Anyway, if we had given up on the chicken, we wouldn't have met Jim White! THE Jim White that Kevin Costner portrayed in McFarland USA. I saw the guy coming toward me, he was wearing a white Disney Tee, with McFarland USA right below the Disney logo. Now since I was a kid for part of my life in McFarland, I just had to find out who would be wearing a Tee bragging about being from there! So, I stopped him and talked to him, and I'm glad I did. My wife came over, and we all talked for a bit.

He related to me that the movie didn't come to fruition for some fifteen years after the first talks of making it. Several production companies had kicked it around, until finally it really happened. We talked longer than I thought we might, and he shook hands with me I think the third time. I came home and looked him up on the net, and the guy I talked to was one and the same. I didn't try and take his pic, I thought that would have been a bit much, but he's a cool guy, he's a couple of years older than I am, but looks about fifteen years younger than me, ten for sure. I felt like something special happened to us meeting the guy. A McFarland boy making good (though he wasn't really from there) is always of interest to me.

BTW, I had to ask about Mr. Costner, 'cause I've watched all of his Yellowstone series. Mr. White said that Mr. Costner treated him very well and was a gentleman to be around. Of course, poetic license comes into play in making a movie, but Mr. White said they did the best they could to accurately portray the accomplishments of the kids.

Durn! I was hoping you’d run into my sister. She lives near there. If you do happen to run into her, tell I still have her Ramones record!

 

[String Tree]

Today, my wife and I went to the COSTCO out on Rosedale hwy. We had finished shopping and went by the meat counter to pick up the best buy in the whole joint a large fresh roasted chicken for $4.99! The guy who takes them off the rack was out on break, but we waited (along with about twenty other people) for him to come back. He was training a lady on how to check them for being done, and how to pull them, and place them in a package.

Anyway, if we had given up on the chicken, we wouldn't have met Jim White! THE Jim White that Kevin Costner portrayed in McFarland USA. I saw the guy coming toward me, he was wearing a white Disney Tee, with McFarland USA right below the Disney logo. Now since I was a kid for part of my life in McFarland, I just had to find out who would be wearing a Tee bragging about being from there! So, I stopped him and talked to him, and I'm glad I did. My wife came over, and we all talked for a bit.

He related to me that the movie didn't come to fruition for some fifteen years after the first talks of making it. Several production companies had kicked it around, until finally it really happened. We talked longer than I thought we might, and he shook hands with me I think the third time. I came home and looked him up on the net, and the guy I talked to was one and the same. I didn't try and take his pic, I thought that would have been a bit much, but he's a cool guy, he's a couple of years older than I am, but looks about fifteen years younger than me, ten for sure. I felt like something special happened to us meeting the guy. A McFarland boy making good (though he wasn't really from there) is always of interest to me.

BTW, I had to ask about Mr. Costner, 'cause I've watched all of his Yellowstone series. Mr. White said that Mr. Costner treated him very well and was a gentleman to be around. Of course, poetic license comes into play in making a movie, but Mr. White said they did the best they could to accurately portray the accomplishments of the kids.

Very cool!

 

[Greg70]

The only thing I've run into at Costco is an endcap of Pepsi products.

 

[Rustbucket]

All I ever run into at Costco are these guys:
- I’m only here to try all the free samples guy
- I push two overloaded carts through a crowded aisle, so you better move guy
- Lounge on the display furniture guy
- How did I spend $400 when I just came here for toilet paper? guy

 

[getbent]

I have never eaten a free sample at costco.

 

[Skully]

Wow, he is one dude where I would have had to tell him how much I love his movies. Wild Bunch and Ice Station Zebra are personal favs. Heck, Wild Bunch might be my favorite movie ever, and EB is just fantastic in it.

I interviewed Borgnine about Muhammad Ali more than 20 years ago, but I never talked to him at Costco. He talked to my wife about baby diapers he was buying. Another time, I was at Costco with a friend, buying stuff for a school camping trip, when we spotted Borgnine. We chased him down and the friend (who, unlike me, is actually friends with a lot of famous people) surreptitiously snapped a photo of Borgnine, which I believe I posted here before. Found it!

According to my previous post, the photo was taken in June 2010.

 

[getbent]

my favorite borgnine clip!

 

[Fretting out]

I’ve gone senile

Reading is fundamental….

 

[BelairPlayer]

It’s kind of hard to screw up a rotisserie chicken.

Yet, so many manage to do it (when measured against that Costco bird).

 

[BelairPlayer]

my favorite borgnine clip!

I’ll outlive you all.

 

[boop]

That's neat! I just started running last week, I am ready to give Disney the option to film my inspirational screenplay

 

[P Thought]

We just got back from a trailer trip along with Mrs. Thought's sister and her husband. They are zealous Costco devotees, and we had Costco this, Costco that for every dinner at their trailer, from their freezer, and 'way too many desserts. I've never been in one.

 

[Skully]

I have never eaten a free sample at costco.

You're a monster.

 

[getbent]

I’ll outlive you all.

onan (ism) is the loneliest number that you'll ever dooooooooo

 

[Killing Floor]

Probably had all day to talk to you with all the slow walkers in Costco.

 

[Nogoodnamesleft]

It’s kind of hard to screw up a rotisserie chicken.

Challenge accepted.

 

[drf64]

onan (ism) is the loneliest number that you'll ever

He may have been a loner but Onan built some fantastic engines way back when.

 

[Trenchant63]

Pfft. All of these “bush league” sightings of people at Costco who’ve had their 15 minutes of fame. Big deal!! If I told you who I encountered, I’d likely be approached by the CIA, FBI and ATS the moment I dropped this post - probably within moments of each other. I’m WAY smarter than that! But .. I suppose it can’t hurt to share one of them. Waiting for my Costco hot dog, I turned around and could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw .. [** membership deleted **]

 

[Toto'sDad]

Durn! I was hoping you’d run into my sister. She lives near there. If you do happen to run into her, tell I still have her Ramones record!

Will do for sure!

 

[Toto'sDad]

If you're out & about, you'll run into them everywhere. My preferred Costco is now in very unsexy Pacoima (although Seals & Croft used to have a facility in neighboring San Fernando), but if you go to Burbank or Van Nuys (where Tom Petty had his playhouse/studio and adjacent to Encino), they turn up on occasion. Once, I bought a James Bond film starring Timothy Dalton at the Burbank Costco and the checkout woman said, "Oh, he comes in here."

Now that right there is the reason people like living in California.