"I am not a crook!"

My mom gets me a new down jacket for Christmas. [Mountain Hardwear, even. Good stuff.] Oops, they're cut large. No problem; back to REI to exchange for smaller size. The REI customer service person even does a nice thing and returns the first one for a voucher and pays for the second one with the voucher, enabling me to collect the REI rebate on it (thanks, mom!). Yay, new jacket.

So, I go to put on my new jacket for the first time last night, and discover that the nice customer service person forgot to take off the theft protection device. Can't remove it myself, else I'll be covered in whatever's in those things. Now, imagine me walking back into the store and saying, "hey, please take this thing off my new jacket". Yeah, right. I'll look like a thief. Hm.