Pets in RVs

mowermech wrote:
Remember, when somebody asks a difficult question, the easiest answer is always "IT'S THE LAW!". They know that very few people will make the effort to research the statutes and prove them to be a liar, so they are generally safe making that claim.
It doesn't matter what the issue is, whether it be brakes on a toad, leaving pets unattended, filling a propane cylinder, whatever, "It is the law, we HAVE to do it THIS way!" will usually get fewer arguments than "It is just company policy!"

....BINGO!! Laws, lawyers, insurance companies, fire codes etc. get lots of usage when it comes to trying to explain why something is the way it is. Frankly, it is no one's business why an establishment has this policy or that policy, so long as that policy doesn't violate the law. A logical explanation often just doesn't sit well. I can explain a "no open fires" policy till I am blue in the face. I can go on about how it is too dry to safely have a fire. How the winds are too high and unpredictable, how the smoke from those fires are bothersome to others, how people do not properly extinguish fires, how the sites are too close to safely have fires and all you get back is "my fire isn't like that". Saying there is a fire ban or ordinance or insurance policy against open fires stops that argument in it's tracks.
Often it is just the best policy to take the path of least resistance. Then again sometimes the only answer is "because I said so".