KD8NPB
Contributor
What an obnoxious question! If you must know, there is only one dive shop near where I live and the one time that I went in there, they acted like I was an ******* for asking newbie questions. What's more, I am self-employed and I depend on people from my local community to support me as I support them. Nobody from my local dive shop has ever done the LEAST bit to support me or my business, so why should I feel the least bit obligated to support them? Listen dipwad, I buy all of my books from independent booksellers in my area, I buy all of my beer from small distributers, I buy...wait a second, I buy an awful lot from local people who actually CONTRIBUTE to the local economy. As far as I know, my local dive shop only takes.
Did you talk to the owner about your experience?