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TNGW1500SE
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Oct 21, 2017

New Porch Light Rule

If you leave your porch light on, half the light has to shine in your RV so you get the same illumination as I do.

In the past month we've had the blue people, the purple people and now the yellow people.

Why don't people think?
  • The half and half light is a good idea. The inside light can be a night light so I don't break my leg getting up to P at 2AM.
    If those dim bulbs annoy you that much maybe your eyelids were removed at birth.
    We don't leave ours on BTW, for the bug reason.
  • TNGW1500SE wrote:
    If you leave your porch light on, half the light has to shine in your RV so you get the same illumination as I do.

    In the past month we've had the blue people, the purple people and now the yellow people.

    Why don't people think?



    Have you had the bug zapper people yet? We experienced them a few months back at a mountain, wooded, campground next to a lake. The guy had no common sense and eventually had a run in with the park ranger over his 24/7 bug zapper keeping half the campground awake.

    We visit a state park campground often near us because it's a dark sky location, and away from city lights. Now days you can forget about it as the campground is brighter than the street in our residential neighborhood. This all became the new norm in the last 5 years or so. The most thoughtful are the people who turn them all on and go to bed.

    I have always had a hard time reading people. When they turn on all those pretty lights thinking that others are saying look how cool those people are, I am usually the guy saying what a load of a$$holes.

    Next time your camping neighbor has your site lit up like the Vegas strip, try sliding an open can of sardines and a 12 pack of Dr Pepper in cans under his trailer late at night. Wait until the local coon family comes a calling @ 3:00 AM and rip into those Dr Pepper cans lol.
  • Old-Biscuit wrote:
    Whew .....glad that new rule only applies to porch light.

    I never turn mine on cause it draws bugs which are just waiting to come in when you open the door.


    I much prefer to stick an automotive flasher in my trailer cord and make the clearances/side marker lights flash on/off.
    And with my window shades pulled I don't even notice them


    ...someone stole my idea.
  • Whew .....glad that new rule only applies to porch light.

    I never turn mine on cause it draws bugs which are just waiting to come in when you open the door.


    I much prefer to stick an automotive flasher in my trailer cord and make the clearances/side marker lights flash on/off.
    And with my window shades pulled I don't even notice them
  • Yes. I have seen People with RV’s that you know they have had for years and they still don’t know which switch is for inside lights and which one is for the outside work lights! Now that I think about it I haven’t had that problem ina long time.

    Thanks a lot! :B
  • Sounds like my neighbor about my security light above my mh in the carport, just another one that too stoopid to close her bathroom curtain???? but alright for her to leave her front door light's on all night.

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