"Gene Cosloy" wrote:

Living in LA area and seeking to buy two canoe paddles and two
floatation vests.


Are you referring to Los Angeles or Louisiana ?

I can't imagine anyone in Louisiana calling them "floatation vests".

Gotta be Los Angeles.

What would you have them be called? In L.A. or in LA?

Since the boating laws in most if not nearly all states require each
person to have a wearable "Personal FlotationDevice," and all of them
are commonly worn as vests, where's the confusion in calling them
vests?


The confusion was that he didn't also request two canoe oars...
--riverman
(That, and the fact that there are probably well over 1000 stores in the
LA
area where you can get PFDs and paddles.)

Hi Smartasses:

Hygiene.

These replies demonstates that there are no dumb questions, just dumb
reponses.

Well, thanks for the clarification, but I disagree. Given the fact that rbp
is an international forum, with a rather miniscule membership from
LosAngeles, an even smaller one from Lousinana, and practically none from
Lewiston-Auburn, it's naively hopeful on your part, at best, that you'd
actually get a reasonable answer to your question, and pretty presumptuous,
at worst, that you'd expect any of us to pick up the yellow pages and look
under "sporting goods" to find a shop that sells paddles and PFDs in LA. In
fact, we'd probably have to email you and ask you to look it up for us,
seeing as your the guy who is actually there and has the Yellow Pages.
Notwithstanding the fact that we don't actually know where 'there' is. LA
(all three of them) are quite large (well, maybe not Lewiston Auburn).
Adding to that the fact that no one any of us has ever heard of actually
calls them "flotation vests", we might have to consider that you don't
really know what you are looking for, so we're pretty reticent about giving
you advice about getting a high-float, a low volume squirt vest, or a
horseshoe collar.

After reading your condescending and sarcastic replies, who
is going to ask a question to which he doesn't know the answer?

Dunno. You tell me. :-)

Shame on you!

Well, thats far from the worst thing I ever got on me, for certain.

Gene

OK, lets start over, there, Gene. What type of paddling do you plan on
doing, what kind of boat do you have, where exactly are you, and is this
really meant as some sort of foray into the world of newsgroups, or do you
really need help in locating a sporting goods store in the sixth-largest
urban area on the planet?

--riverman