Hydroponic warehouse

Walked into a rather large South of Market store selling hydroponic equipment -- the kind of stuff you'd use to grow vegetables in a desert warehouse, or some highly valuable crop indoors, like...

So the first guy I see in the store is on his way out, but before doing so, he gives me the once over, very suspiciously. The guy who I thought was running the place also looks very nervous, and he disappeared. This leaves no one in the store but me and a short Mexican. Well, the Mexican guy works there too. He's less nervous and doesn't look at me suspiciously like the white guys. He acts like he's actually running a business (in Spanish). Fortunately, he speaks English.

Geez, if you want to pretend you have a legitimate business (not a supply warehouse for a huge illicit pot growing operation, you could at least ACT NATURAL ?!

Oh, and the other funny thing about this place... most places that sell this kind of stuff are smaller operations, and have brochures or at least one item in the store depicting a marijuana plant. In this place, EVERYTHING depicted growing flowers and vegetables, nary a marijuana picture to be found -- yet the people were 5 times as paranoid. Will the real government undercover operation please stand up ?