@Clare non-members are not clean enough to even enter the holy co-op, except during specific new-member orientation sessions, after which the sanctuary is ritually cleansed.
I remember reading an article about people getting their maids/nannies to do their co-op shifts for them, and how that was against the rules. Some anonymous member of the co-op was quoted in the story as not wanting her name to be printed out of "fear of retaliation." I burst out laughing at that part. What could they have possibly done to her? Put organic and inorganic products in the same bag?
My greatest -indeed, possibly ONLY – regret about moving back to NY from the Midwest is the co-ops. Elsewhere, co-ops are happy, friendly, welcoming places. (You know: *cooperative*). Here, they are awful gulags. I shop at Trader Joe's.
No, wait, my other regret is that it's harder to find porters on tap here. Beer and co-ops. That's it.
Meh. There aren't enough free-range loofahs to scrub the hippie off.
@BadUncle You don't raise your own loofahs on your roof? Shame on you.
BUT THE RELATIVELY CHEAP CHEESES! (I miss them so.)
Can non-members shop at the Park Slope Co-op?
@Clare: DIE FOR ASKING.
@Clare non-members are not clean enough to even enter the holy co-op, except during specific new-member orientation sessions, after which the sanctuary is ritually cleansed.
Geographically undesirable.
I remember reading an article about people getting their maids/nannies to do their co-op shifts for them, and how that was against the rules. Some anonymous member of the co-op was quoted in the story as not wanting her name to be printed out of "fear of retaliation." I burst out laughing at that part. What could they have possibly done to her? Put organic and inorganic products in the same bag?
My greatest -indeed, possibly ONLY – regret about moving back to NY from the Midwest is the co-ops. Elsewhere, co-ops are happy, friendly, welcoming places. (You know: *cooperative*). Here, they are awful gulags. I shop at Trader Joe's.
No, wait, my other regret is that it's harder to find porters on tap here. Beer and co-ops. That's it.