HAHAHAHA!!!You guy's..
The dreadlock couple sounds like a couple that was in the store when we were there, but they didn't have any urchins with them..
I don't buy any thing from REI...They believe in the wrong ethics about life...
I do go in though to see what kind of new technologies are comming down the turn pike since it seems they alway's come into this store first..
A little story about the one I used to frequent over in Washington..
I was in the store looking at the tents and a couple asked a clerk a question...
She quickly answers and then looks around at the rest of us in the immediate area and states, that was an easy one, anybody got some thing harder...
I pipe up immediatly and ask where the camoflage was....
She gave me the funniest look and muttered some thing about not having any in the store, I think she was just so baffled by such a question that any one would even think of wearing camo...
I wish I would have had a camera at the time to see such a smug selfrightous look turn into some thing of dumfounded dismay so quickly....LMAO!!!