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Deb_and_Ed_M
Sep 30, 2014Explorer II
Bigdog wrote:Deb and Ed M wrote:CA POPPY wrote:
Probably not as bad as having a toddler cut loose while perched in a shopping cart at the Superstore. :E Don't even ask how I know that. :o
Sorry I'm laughing hysterically - been there, done that. Also one of the reasons I laugh at people who dress in haz-mat suits to dump their black tank. REALLY????? Did they dress similarly to change their kids' diapers??
I do wash after dumping,but a long,long time ago,I pumped septic tanks for almost a year after the Boeing crunch in Seattle and never got sick. I do clean up everything and keep it all put away neatly.I just figger that when it's family,you know where it came from. Several weeks ago,I watched a guy next to me in a campground in his 43' tag axle with macerator. He came out to dump his rig with knee high rubber boots and elbow length rubber gloves with a paper face mask and glasses. All he had to do was pull the hose out and stuff it in the hole and pull the plug. When he was done and everything all coiled up,he got out a sprayer tank and sprayed everything well with a bleach solution.
Makes you wonder if that person ever raised children or pets? Because with either of 'em, you're gonna get covered in something disgusting, sooner or later....
I think my worst moment was decades ago - feeding horses, and when I got to the wall-mounted grain feeder the farthest from the door, with 1,000 lbs of hungry horse doing a "happy dance", I noticed that one of the horses had backed up to it and filled it with "road apples" :-(
If I went back into the barn to get something to scoop it clean, the unfed horse was going to create havoc with the other horses.... so yes, with my bare hand, I cleared the feeder :-(
Poop happens. As long as you wash up afterwards, it's not the worst thing in the world....
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