Parking lot (Pee)ve

[TomG2]

We have all seen various parking lot abuses, but since when have we become a third world country that allows human waste to be disposed of just about anywhere? The habit of truckers and travelers dumping their P-cans and P-bottles right outside their rigs is disgusting. Why do some rest areas and parking lots smell like a sewer? Because that is what they have become. Our dogs play in this stuff. We track it into our rigs. There are health reasons for having modern sanitary sewer systems. I wish more would use them.

I do not expect anyone to change their habit because of some Internet post, but I do hope that it makes people aware that it is not always air conditioner water that makes the pavement wet where someone just parked. What is next, complete black tank dumps? Nice.

[jplante4]

I guess that's far enough down this road...

CLOSED

[lots2seeinmyrv]

WOW...

It's a vortex of human wretchedness...so disgusting and no regard for others.

[toedtoes]

Dave H M wrote:

TomG2 wrote:
Our IDOT mower operators are now demanding cabs for just that reason. Big mess when the mower hits the jug.

:h I don't get it. Maybe should start with once upon a time?

I got two labs that make deposits in my yard. Set the throttle where the rabbit is on the Z turn and poof it disintegrates.

I think folks are lissing the part about the jugs of pee and the large puddles of pee on a cemented parking lot. We're not talking about a quick pee in the dirt or grass where it will be absorbed by the ground, etc.

This is more like those big cities where you walk by an area and get that overwhelming urine smell - just in rest areas and parking lots.

[toedtoes]

beemerphile1 wrote:

toedtoes wrote:
I don't think anyone is afraid of dying from it. Just that people don't want to have to clean up someone else's deposits because that someone was too lazy/thoughtless/ignorant/rude to dispose of it properly...

I agree wholeheartedly, but I still say it is hilarious that some are concerned that fluffy may step in urine.

Like I said above. My dogs are on leashes. I do not let them roll in disgusting things and then climb into my RV. Likewise I don't want them walking through your pee and then climbing into my RV. Heck, I don't want them walking through MY pee and then climbing into my RV.

If we're out on a walk in the woods, then I am sure they are stepping in stuff. But that stuff is not concentrated into a big puddle and by the time we get back to the RV, the majority of that stuff has been brushed/wiped off their feet by the grass and dirt as they walk. However, when people and their dogs are peeing right in the parking lot at the side of their vehicles and creating big puddles, then it's a pretty concentrated amount right outside my RV door. Now when the dog steps inside I get a big wet spot of your pee on my floor instead of a few specks of dirt.

[NJRVer]

The truckers and trailer towing areas of some rest stop parking lots are really bad. The ammonia smell at some can make your eyes water.

Now just a couple months ago though at a rest stop a fat lady with her dog is standing with it right out in the little grassy area in the front of the building and she lets her dog take a dump right there and then just walks away with the dog.

[Lynnmor]

soren wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:
Just think about the guy whose job it is to mow those areas. :E

One of the fathers in our scout troop is a state DOT mechanic. He said it is not unheard of to have one of their right of way mower operators strike a full plastic bottle of old rotted urine, and end up off the tractor, on their hands and knees, puking violently.

soren, I see you are from Lancaster County. Until recent years, we didn't have the horse excrement all over the roads here in York County, but that has changed and now we have those types on both sides of us. It's funny how we accept certain behavior from some and not others. Funnier yet, is that hordes of people come from all over to drive in that stuff.

[TomG2]

Dave H M wrote:

TomG2 wrote:
Our IDOT mower operators are now demanding cabs for just that reason. Big mess when the mower hits the jug.

:h I don't get it. Maybe should start with once upon a time?

I got two labs that make deposits in my yard. Set the throttle where the rabbit is on the Z turn and poof it disintegrates.

Do your two labs piss in a one gallon jug that you throw in the ditch on your way to work? What is there "not to get"? I admit that the mower operators might be a little more concerned with their health and well being than you are. If the mower to your side or just in front of you hits one of these "piss bombs", then you get splattered. Not my idea of fun.

[Dave_H_M]

TomG2 wrote:
Our IDOT mower operators are now demanding cabs for just that reason. Big mess when the mower hits the jug.

:h I don't get it. Maybe should start with once upon a time?

I got two labs that make deposits in my yard. Set the throttle where the rabbit is on the Z turn and poof it disintegrates.

[TomG2]

beemerphile1 wrote:
I agree wholeheartedly, but I still say it is hilarious that some are concerned that fluffy may step in urine.

And I still say that everyone is entitled to their own sense of what is funny and what is not. I never did like bathroom jokes. That may be the difference.

[beemerphile1]

toedtoes wrote:
I don't think anyone is afraid of dying from it. Just that people don't want to have to clean up someone else's deposits because that someone was too lazy/thoughtless/ignorant/rude to dispose of it properly...

I agree wholeheartedly, but I still say it is hilarious that some are concerned that fluffy may step in urine.

[beemerphile1]

carmichael wrote:
Wow..this seems really extreme. At 68 years old and spending most of those years living on farms with livestock barns and pastures, walking 4 miles a day for 21 years on rural roads and in nature parks, I can't imagine all the times I have most certainly stepped in poo or pee from God's creatures, yet, I am still alive and healthy. I guess it must be because I have never made it a habit to rub my hands on the bottom of my shoes.. nor eaten off my floors. Countless times over my lifetime I have had picnics on the ground and even carried my picnic blanket home in my car and guess what I'm still alive (as are my husband and children).

Perhaps it might be time for you to hang up the keys and stay safely tucked away in a safe sterile environment.

Heavy handedly hitting my imaginary like button. :C

[beemerphile1]

TomG2 wrote:
I don't own a dog but I don't think it is "hilarious" to expose a dog or a person to some jerk's piss. I may be wrong about this.

I don't own a dog either, but I do know they pee and poo anywhere they darn well please and then are likely to roll in it because they like the aroma. Sheesh

[soren]

carmichael wrote:
Wow..this seems really extreme. At 68 years old and spending most of those years living on farms with livestock barns and pastures, walking 4 miles a day for 21 years on rural roads and in nature parks, I can't imagine all the times I have most certainly stepped in poo or pee from God's creatures, yet, I am still alive and healthy. I guess it must be because I have never made it a habit to rub my hands on the bottom of my shoes.. nor eaten off my floors. Countless times over my lifetime I have had picnics on the ground and even carried my picnic blanket home in my car and guess what I'm still alive (as are my husband and children).

Perhaps it might be time for you to hang up the keys and stay safely tucked away in a safe sterile environment.

So, you are the kind of guy who parks the RV in between the trucks at a highway rest stop on a hot day, steps out to the overwhelming stench of human urine poured all over the concrete, and takes a deep breath, and thinks "ah, I love the smell of nature"?

Sorry, no offense. To each his own, but most of us are, "not that guy".

[soren]

Lynnmor wrote:
Just think about the guy whose job it is to mow those areas. :E

One of the fathers in our scout troop is a state DOT mechanic. He said it is not unheard of to have one of their right of way mower operators strike a full plastic bottle of old rotted urine, and end up off the tractor, on their hands and knees, puking violently.