Hollow Advice - Try It Out in the Pool

[freediver]

Finding a great LDS can be tough in some places. If you can't find a great LDS in your area, move. Trying out equipment in the pool is similar to test driving a car, at least; and at most, it can clinch a sale.

Yea, to heck with the job and the salary and the kids that are happy in school and the wife's Thursday Bridge game and the rest of our usual routine....My LDS won't let me try gear in the pool!...Honey, kids...pack up, we're moving West!

 

[H2Andy]

Yea, to heck with the job and the salary and the kids that are happy in school and the wife's Thursday Bridge game and the rest of our usual routine....My LDS won't let me try gear in the pool!...Honey, kids...pack up, we're moving West!

i salute you on your priorities! but you could move East too, great diving in Florida.

 

[Warren_L]

So often I read the advice given to a new diver/member - "Try both of them out in the pool then decide which one to buy."

In the real world, how many LDS's will allow a perspective customer to take two brand new B/C's, regulators, fins, 5mm full suit, 7mm farmer john/jacket, what have you to the pool, swim it about for a bit and then return it.

It is good advice and would be of immense benefit to the new diver, but come on, how probable is it that this would actually be an option?

My LDS does.... if you ask.

 

[freediver]

i salute you on your priorities! but you could move East too, great diving in Florida.

uhhh...hold on honey, H2Andy has invited us to move in with him!

 

[H2Andy]

freediver, does your household contain any people, animals, or plants, sworn to
never-ending enmity with cats, perchance?

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[freediver]

freediver, does your household contain any people, animals, or plants, sworn to
never-ending enmity with cats, perchance?

:33:

ahhhh crap, hold on...I gotta go look up enmity.

 

[H2Andy]

:22:

i think it means "one who wears large gloves" or something like that

 

[teknitroxdiver]

So does mine "Rick's Dive and Travel" in Arkansas.

- Kelly

I use Rick's too, he's been great about that. I tried out all of my gear in his pool, and he was willing to let me try anything in the shop. The only limitation he put down was when I tried the split fins (this was back when they had first come out) that I had to stay in the deep end and off the walls and bottom, to keep from scratching up the bottoms of them. That was still enough for me to know they weren't worth the price.

If they won't let you try it out, I'd go somewhere else. You spend a lot of money on gear, you should be able to make sure it's right.

 

[Firefyter]

:22:

i think it means "one who wears large gloves" or something like that

Whew...glad you cleared that up. You know how us Texans are...I was wonderin "Why in the world does this guy wanna give a cat an enema?

 

[freediver]

:22:

i think it means "one who wears large gloves" or something like that

heehee, funny you mention...people are always saying I have large hands. Anyway, let's see enmity..enmity, isn't that where Jaws was filmed?

On a side note, we love cats. The males tend to be a bit chewy but if their prepared just right......