REI whore
You've heard of crack whores. I'm an REI whore. I would sell my body to buy more REI gear, I have no doubt.
I'm surprised they don't yet know me by name - it's the fourth time in a week I've been there. I use more gas driving there than any place else.
So, I bought a Cocoon Silk/Cotton Liner/Travel Sheet. 20% off, not bad. Poor REI guy trying to help me had no clue. "So, what's the benefit of silk-cotton mix?" I ask. "It's warmer." "Which one?" OK, I'm a bitch. I knew already at this point that he had no fucking clue, but I let him try. "The mix." "Really? Because it says it makes the bag about 8 degrees warmer, and the silk says at least 10. So not too much difference, eh?" "Oh, um cost, too." "Really? Because the mix is three dollars cheaper is all - that's like 5% - hardly worth notice." "Really?" Poor guy so did not have a clue. I knew I didn't want the all-silk - I hate the way silk feels, and it was sewn all the way up, and I'm a claustrophobic sleeper. But I wasn't sold. "The mix is like twice as big." "Yeah, the silk is for people where every little tiny space matters. Like people backpacking up the Himilayas." "Really? You don't think they'd take a warmer bag? And don't they have Sherpas? Aren't these kinds of things really for people like me, who plan to live out of a carry-on while traveling the world?"
Yes, I was educative, but I wasn't nice. But he was major REI buzzkill, and he needed to know he wasn't worthy for the temple.
So, I think I have my sleeping dilemma solved. I went to Big 5 and bought the Suisse Sport Micro Tek sleeping bag. My friend Cherie, from kayaking in Baja in March, had it and I was impressed with how small it scrunches. Yes, I have two sleeping bags, but both are too large. So, this Suisse Sport is good to +30 degrees, it says, but I'm doubtful. As I read about desert trips in Morocco, they say a warm sleeping bag is required - so I got the liner, too. Plus, the liner is good in hostels, and it scrunches small. I'm set.
But on my way to buy eye shades, the adapters/converters cried out to me. And the Eagle Creek came home with me. Apparently I'll be electrified this trip.
Hopefully I'm about done gear shopping - I already had most stuff from camping and earlier trips. I'll buy all the clothes I need in Oregon before I leave. I'm so ready to go NOW!
I'm surprised they don't yet know me by name - it's the fourth time in a week I've been there. I use more gas driving there than any place else.
So, I bought a Cocoon Silk/Cotton Liner/Travel Sheet. 20% off, not bad. Poor REI guy trying to help me had no clue. "So, what's the benefit of silk-cotton mix?" I ask. "It's warmer." "Which one?" OK, I'm a bitch. I knew already at this point that he had no fucking clue, but I let him try. "The mix." "Really? Because it says it makes the bag about 8 degrees warmer, and the silk says at least 10. So not too much difference, eh?" "Oh, um cost, too." "Really? Because the mix is three dollars cheaper is all - that's like 5% - hardly worth notice." "Really?" Poor guy so did not have a clue. I knew I didn't want the all-silk - I hate the way silk feels, and it was sewn all the way up, and I'm a claustrophobic sleeper. But I wasn't sold. "The mix is like twice as big." "Yeah, the silk is for people where every little tiny space matters. Like people backpacking up the Himilayas." "Really? You don't think they'd take a warmer bag? And don't they have Sherpas? Aren't these kinds of things really for people like me, who plan to live out of a carry-on while traveling the world?"
Yes, I was educative, but I wasn't nice. But he was major REI buzzkill, and he needed to know he wasn't worthy for the temple.
So, I think I have my sleeping dilemma solved. I went to Big 5 and bought the Suisse Sport Micro Tek sleeping bag. My friend Cherie, from kayaking in Baja in March, had it and I was impressed with how small it scrunches. Yes, I have two sleeping bags, but both are too large. So, this Suisse Sport is good to +30 degrees, it says, but I'm doubtful. As I read about desert trips in Morocco, they say a warm sleeping bag is required - so I got the liner, too. Plus, the liner is good in hostels, and it scrunches small. I'm set.
But on my way to buy eye shades, the adapters/converters cried out to me. And the Eagle Creek came home with me. Apparently I'll be electrified this trip.
Hopefully I'm about done gear shopping - I already had most stuff from camping and earlier trips. I'll buy all the clothes I need in Oregon before I leave. I'm so ready to go NOW!
posted by NOLA at 8:36 PM
3 Comments:
Hee hee...REI whore!! I love the term! Where is the closest REI from here anyways? I just know of the one in Arcadia...! If he couldn't answer your questions, or at least look it up somewhere, then he wasn't worthy to be working there anyways.
Ooo...how I wish we had class together again - we'd be such wonderfully fun students in a class...perhaps taught by LD?? If I was in one of those effing (you use this now! Did you before? Wouldn't you have just typed the whole dang word out or something? I've heard you say it before! Hee hee...) marco-torres (shh) type classes, but taught by LD...it'd be AWESOME chaos...! ^_^
There's a new (since October) REI in VICTORIA GARDENS!! Your favorite place!!
And yeah homegirl, "effing" is all from you!
Ooo. Really??? Victoria Gardens??? I'll have to check it out!!!
Muah ha..."effing" comes from someone in Las Vegas, hee hee...Shelton doesn't like it as much that I use it at times - thinks that she has corrupted me somehow. But it's fun. I like the effect of it. =) Almost like holding up your fourth finger, muah ha...=)
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