Venice Pier Surf Report / Zorro strikes at Costco

Bump in size to waist high with a few corners scattered about. The bar just north of the pier looked best when I was there, but it will shift around as the tide continues dropping to 0 ft at 11:00 am.





By my math that means your window is now until about 9:30am - get on it now.

Light offshores, street parking 80% gone, nobody out and 2 suiting up.

So last night I go to the Costco in my neighborhood to pick up a prescription refill. My hopes perk up as I see there is nobody in line and think to myself, hey, I may get out of here in under an hour.

Except for one thing – there is one window open and it is currently occupied by a junked out looking woman who is going absolutely ballistic about something. First thing I hear is

“How dare you treat me like this? This prescription is between ME and MY DOCTOR and I don’t care who the fuck you think you are but I want this filled RIGHT NOW and I want to speak to your boss. Who is your boss? Get him here RIGHT NOW!!!!”

Great – I’m in line behind Charlene Manson.

Then I notice that she has one of those light blue handwritten prescriptions that are reserved for the most addictive, Schedule 1 narcotics like Oxycontin and Percocet; maybe it’s not just coincidence that she happens to look like someone central casting would send down if you were shooting a scene in a meth lab.

She is still going off and now there are about 5 of us in line, all giving each other the raised eyebrow, shake the head “can you believe this bitch?’ look that we all know.

Luckily, though, the pharmacy notices the backup and opens another service window – right next to where Crazy Mary is still having her outburst.

I gamely approach the window, give my name and the girl goes to retrieve my prescription. Eyes straight ahead I wait.

And then I hear it – I’m being enlisted; Crazy Mary is looking at me and saying:

”Can you believe these fucking assholes that work here? Who the FUCK do they think they are to get between what my doctor and I do? Have you ever seen anything like this?”

To which I reply with a straight face

”Hey, don’t look at me. If I was behind the counter I’d give you whatever you wanted; it’s pretty obvious you need some sort of fucking medication.”

Ha…….Ha…. HA Hahahhahahha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Everyone in line, everyone behind the counter, the pharmacist, we all started laughing…and laughing….fucking crying, and right AT this dumb bitch.

And you know what she did? Nothing. She just had to stay there and take it.

But she sure shut up.