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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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My NSS number is under 18,000.
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hlehmann
Trad climber
San Fernando Valley
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1,546,xxx... from the 80's. Makes me feel young compared to some of you.
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#310
Social climber
Telluride, CO
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In Berkley back in the 70's, it was a big issue in any divorce, who got the REI number membership and who got the food coop membership number...big status attached to having low membership numbers.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Apr 13, 2009 - 02:53pm PT
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Just thought I'd enter my contribution. I guess Erb got in ahead of me. Last time I walked into an REI the clerk looked at my card and commented on the smallness of my number - she was looking at my card: 25232
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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So what is Fred Beckey's number?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I never joined the National Speleological Association - a group of US cavers - because it quickly became apparent to me that one's worth as a caver was measured by how low your membership number was. People were making fun of me because I would have been given a five-digit number, and theirs were all four.
NSS 11741
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Dave Davis
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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What you want a small REI number and a big wiener number ? I'm confused...
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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My REI number is < 15000. My MEC number is much, much higher.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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"Apr 4, 2009 - 08:01pm PT
My NSS number is under 18,000."
Mine is four digits.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Feb 10, 2015 - 02:14am PT
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266851. My father's was under 20,000. We lived in Portland and every spring we'd make a family trip up to Seattle. Such anticipation. And that in an era when climbing gear didnt really change one year to the next. REI used to be cool... back before the MBAs took over and started running it like Sears.
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scaredycat
Trad climber
Berkeley,CA
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Feb 10, 2015 - 07:42am PT
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This is pathetic, but I just ran across my Arcata Co-op (now the North Coast Co-op) card: 211! I don't know how that translates to the weiner-o-meter metrics, and at my age I don't really want to know.
I had an NSS card but I think it's long gone. Once when I renewed it after a lapse, they made a point that I could keep my old number.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Feb 10, 2015 - 07:56am PT
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I've avoided them successfully. REI has a place here but there is no need to go to the box store strip when we have everything we need downtown. I worked my way through college at little mountain stores so I am a bit biased. In the early 90's you couldn't get topos for Burst Rock area drawn on site when you visited an REI...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 10, 2015 - 08:09am PT
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My Seattle friend's dad had a number in the 90's! But he was Norwegian.
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two-shoes
Trad climber
Auberry, CA
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Feb 10, 2015 - 08:27am PT
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642429 early 70's
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John Morton
climber
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Feb 10, 2015 - 08:37am PT
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I'm 23370. REI, that's where I sent for those worthless soft iron pitons. Now the funky card is a good icebreaker when I flash it at the cashier.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Feb 10, 2015 - 08:44am PT
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Got me to wondering so I talked to my dad and his is 51K from the sixties. He remembers REI as a little shop on Pikes Place.
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Fletcher
Boulder climber
A very quiet place
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Feb 10, 2015 - 09:19am PT
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This is just like the trend for phones (prior to smartphones) for guys: one of the few areas where smaller is considered better. Ha ha!
How about employee numbers? I have been (and currently am) in the single digits for a few software/hardware companies. I'm not sure if that's been a blessing or a curse, if you know certain aspects of the software industry. :-)
I was employee 501 (just like the jeans!) for a company that took over another and turned it into one of the largest companies in the world now (software or otherwise).
Mostly I think these low digits mean two things: 1) yer just a number and 2) yer old! Ha ha!
Eric
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Feb 10, 2015 - 03:30pm PT
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I have no REI number.
Nor a weiner.
But when I adopted Lucas, one of the first comments someone made was "Wow, he's got a big weiner!"
Not going to get into a dog wiener measuring contest though.
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Feb 24, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
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534236 about 1975
my weener index number is 29491
(height in inches x weight in pounds divided by actual weener length in inches) x (IQ divided by shoe size) = weener index
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crankster
Trad climber
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Feb 24, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
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600xxx. Berkeley 1977.
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