Samples...Heaven or Hell?

Have you ever noticed that free samples brings out the worst in people? We live in a small town, and we are lucky that we have a small Costco (think half the size of most Costco stores) just a few miles from our house. I go there pretty regularly.
On a weekday afternoon with the small town crowd (decidedly not crowded) I can peruse Costco to my heart's content, and then if I happen to walk by a sample and the tray is all set up, I will take one and enjoy it highly, especially if I didn't get much of a lunch.
Saturday afternoons however, are an entirely different story. Unfortunately D and the boys like going to Costco to look at movies, books and whatever else. If we are all going to go as a family it usually happens on a Saturday. Then my kids become suddenly starving and malnourished and they must shout out across the whole store when they spot that red checkered table cloth that means a sample is there. The whining starts, and they can't help but look in the direction of the food side of the store. I HATE going to Costco on Saturdays. For the most part my boys are fairly well behaved about the samples. There is a certain amount of whining, but there are no out and out fits generally. I don't let them crowd around the sample table waiting that five minutes for something to finish cooking. I have, however, noticed that other people will crowd around that table and wait for the food. As much as I enjoy eating, I am more of a take the opportunity when it is there. If I am pushing my cart by and there is a sample out and ready, and not many vultures around, then I will go ahead and have one. If there is a crowd, I am happy to walk on by. We even passed up ice cream with frozen berries on it (which looked really good) because there was a crowd. Today I actually saw a man walk up, step in front of a kid at the sample table and take the last sample on the tray right in front of the kid's face. I thought that took guts, and then the guy shoved it in his mouth and kept on walking like he was just passing through. The kid looked a little bit startled.
So what kind of a sampler are you? If I had the mental inclination and the time (I have no time because I have been trying to beat Zelda a Link to the past while my boys watch me play it on the TV. If that confuses you, check out this post on my other blog.) I would make up a little online quiz so that people could find out their sampling personality type. Since I don't have the time or the mental inclination, I will just describe a few of the styles.
1. The Vulture: Vultures seem to be the most common. This style involves circling the sample table or the nearby vicinity with an eye always on the appliance that is cooking the food. Vultures can be sly and sometimes will pretend they are looking at something else nearby, but who REALLY reads the label on a block of cheddar cheese?
2. The pickpocket: Okay, so there are really no pockets involved unless they are sampling pita bread. The pickpocket is the sampler who appears to be nonchalantly walking by and with lightning quick reflexes gets away with taking a sample. This one is also sometimes called the sly spy which involves the same technique but with a little more effort to be unnoticed by everyone around.
3. The bulldozer: This sampler gets in there any way they can, even if they have to squeeze in front of other people. Sometimes the cart is used to gain position over those that are milling around the table. The key to success in this case is to not make eye contact with anyone, just pretend they are not there.
4. The starving man aka the addict: This one always surprises me when I see it, but this is the one that involves people taking more than one of the same sample. Sometimes they will just stand there, eat the first, then take another and at times they are even bold enough to grab a third for the road. Sometimes I am mistaken for the starving man because in my efforts to avoid looking like vultures I will grab a few of the sample and then turn around and dole them out to the kids. However I am proud to say that I have not taken extras for myself. Once in a while I have been forced to eat some of the boys' samples that they didn't like, but that's just not the same.
5. The puppy dog: This is my boys to a T. They start out giving me the puppy dog eyes, and continue giving them to every person distributing the samples until they have what they want. The puppy dog generally works unless the puppy dog eyes turn into whining...see below.
6. The whiner: I have never seen an adult whiner in regards to samples, but I have seen plenty of kiddie whiners.
7. The hunter/huntress: This sampler will figure out the best route through the samples. Like the vultures they pay attention to when things are supposed to be done cooking but they know that it is more advantageous to make the rounds. While all of those vultures are distracted waiting for the hot wings to come out of the microwave, the hunter is stalking easier prey.
8. The scavenger: The scavenger only tries at tables with no crowds, usually ending up with the less desirable samples (such as pickled artichoke hearts ewww)
9. Out to Lunch: These are the bold samplers who don't even bother pushing a cart around the store. They are there for one thing and one thing only...Lunch. A cart can get in the way but the out to luncher can slip through gaps between other samplers and catch their prize.
10. The stressed out parent: This is the one that is pushing their cart full of goods usually with several little bodies hanging off of the cart or off of the parent. They are just there to shop, but their offspring have noticed the samples and like hounds to the hunt cannot be appeased. Please don't judge the stressed out parent too harshly. They just want to get through Costco with a minimum of meltdowns and confrontations. The samples distract their kids from begging, and from bothering each other. Yes, sometimes those kids can be embarrassing, but all in all they do pretty well. Also take into consideration that the samples might be the best nutrition the flustered parent has had all day. I for one spend so much time making sure my kids are well fed that I sometimes forget to feed myself.
So what is your style of sampling? I dare you to answer. (feel free to come up with more categories if you can think of them.)