I braved the rain on Saturday to head over to the local Cabela’s in search of pants.  Specifically, I was looking for their Stretch 7-Pocket Hikers.  The only problem is that they tend to scatter the displays for the stretch hikers amongst the regular ones and several other types of pants (like their Chinos or Khakis).  To find the color you want often involves wandering about the area checking out all the racks that have pants.  Oh, and just for kicks, they rearrange the locations of these racks from time to time.  It’s not like in some stores where I can simply beeline my way to the desired item.

So I’m bumbling about the men’s section looking for the right color pants and trying to avoid the crowd (which was surprisingly thick for a rainy Saturday), when I spied a rack of stretch hikers a little further over and went to investigate.  There was one pair on the front that was easily examinable, and at first I thought that the hips seemed a bit odd, but I didn’t think much more about it.  However, I was mightly confused when I saw the size marked as “18.”  Obviously no one makes pants with an 18” waist (at least outside of children’s clothes), and these were definitely bigger than that… 

About this point the little lightbulb went off and I realized that I’d stumbled into the women’s section.  With a furtive glance about the area to see if anyone had noticed, I hastily beat a retreat back to the familiar area of the men’s department.

They definitely need better markers between the sections.  Or perhaps an alarm system (“Intruder alert!”).