[pct-l] Brag

[Patrick Beggan]

I can spend hours in a sporting goods store.

re: right handed with a left zipper... I can zip either side equally  
well, I just reach with the other hand. However, I always have trouble  
with unzipping, even with this famed, highly advertised "no-snag  
zipper." it snags every time, in every bag I've ever had. Unzipping  
usually required two hands, one to keep tension on the side of the bag  
and the other to pull the zipper down. I've gotten used to it and  
don't think about it much.


On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:46 PM, cvano at tmail.com wrote:

> Went to REI today!  This is always an adventure and a difficult
> excersise in keeping any money at all in my pocket.  Anyway, I went
> specifically to buy a new sleeping bag, my old one being 10 years old
> and lost on that mountain, cashed 6' up in a tree and now under at  
> least
> 5' of snow.
>
> So after about an hour of laying on the floor looking like a vagrant
> with people stepping over me, while I fully tried out at least 6  
> bags, I
> finally decided that the 15 degree Zepher Regular was the best option
> for me.
>
> They had ONE left with a left hand zipper.  Actually, they had one  
> left
> of several different kinds, but some were gone, this being the end of
> the end of the year clearance.  I was lucky to get the bag I wanted to
> start with and not have to settle for less, or more money.  The pad I
> wanted (Exped 7) is lost and gone forever.
>
> The left hand zipper... I'm right handed but have never been able to
> figure out how to bend my elbow to zip up a right hand zipper bag.  I
> had to do all kinds of contortions for 10 minutes or so, while  
> freezing,
> just to get'er done, and then I'd remember something, spend another 5
> minutes getting out, and then have do it all over again.  With this  
> one,
> I just reach over and zip it up.  Is this a common problem?  Has  
> anyone
> really ever thought about this?  Does anyone really care?
>
> As I was walking around looking at all the other 'I Wants,' I  
> stopped in
> the shoe dept to see if anything could be done about the annoying  
> squeak
> that had developed in my left shoe.  (I was in the Bellingham, WA.  
> store
> and talked to Mickey.)  She said that it would NEVER go away and to
> please let her replace them!  I did, and she did.  New shoes AND a new
> sleeping bag from REI for a BUC and change.  You can't beat that with
> any stick!
>
> I'm going outside now... no wait... no I'm not... its raining seals  
> and
> otters... and I didn't get my pad... I'm turning off the heater now  
> and
> climbing into my new bag inside the boat... Ahhh, comfy, cozy... Nite
>
> It's not the Mountain that we conquer,
> but Ourselves.  Anon.
>
> Ol' Three Toes aka Chris
> S/V Drifter ~~~_/)~~~
> Anacortes, WA.
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