JaxDad wrote:
Mr.Beebo wrote:
The snowflakes seem to fall in campgrounds all year long.
Not *just* in campgrounds, but lots of them seem to travel in RVโs....
I rarely stay in a c/g because Iโm travelling to small airports and just camp there. On one such trip 3 or 4 of us were parked in a lot fairly close to a main road one nice summer night. Not long before sunset a m/h stopped next to us on the road and the driver stood at the fence and asked if they could join us. โSure! Come on in!โ
The next morning (around 9am) we were sitting around having coffee when the โladyโ appeared before even โgood morningโ started with something more like โGeezuz, whatโs with all these idiots screaming right over our heads in those **** airplanes!!!โ
We pointed out that, well, errrrr, ummm, youโre at an AIRPORT. Itโs kinda what happens here. Without even hesitating she replied โWell couldnโt they see these great big motorhomes? Wouldnโt they KNOW weโd all be TRYING to SLEEP? Duh!!!โ
When the shock wore off, and the giggling subsided somebody suggested she should demand a full refund!
Snowflakes are idiots. Just had a run in with a couple of flakes over the recent holiday. They could not run their A.C. on their shiny new POS because the state park has old wiring, and when occupancy is higher than normal usually presents problems.
First when they arrived he backed the shiny new class C POS over the steel fire ring backing into the site. It has just rained the night before so he was now stuck in the mud (grass sites with no pad), without ever getting out of the drivers seat and checking out the conditions prior to backing in off the paved road. Off went the wife to complain about the conditions to the girl at the contact station. An hour later here comes maintenance with a tractor and yanks out the C. The guy backs in 10' to the right and is stuck again, but I assume that's good enough....and apparently level enough too.
Ahhh poop....hes now too far from the shared power pedestal for his cord to reach, so off to the contact station again to inquire if they loan or rent extension cords LOL. When it's discovered they do not, she then goes site to site until she finds someone to borrow a cord from....never asked me....I could of saved her some hiking.
After an hour or two she comes over and states they are having problems with their electricity, and every time they turn on the A.C. it blows the fuse. I explain the power situation, tell her the park has derated these sites in the loop to 20 amp in all literature and at the reservation site, and show her my Hughes autoformer and explain to her and her husband how it works. I also grabbed my meter and showed them how my side of the pedestal was at 109 volts ahead of the autoformer, theirs was floating around 97. Off she goes to the contact station to complain again, and 45 minutes later the ranger and the maintenance manager arrive.
The maintenance guy apparently explains what I just had explained. But wait.....its now, according to the husband, my fault due to the autoformer use. It's caused by me using something he did not even know existed an hour prior, or understood how it worked. This despite the maintenance guy explaining each receptacle in the shared pedestal was pulled from opposite legs of the 240 volt circuit, and regardless the autoformer would not be the problem anyway. I guess he also explained how if they turn the water heater and fridge to gas and turn off the Tv's, the outside one was on almost before they got out of the C, the A.C. runs fine despite the power situation.
Later on their snowflake friends show up and all is good I assume. That is until about midnight when I see the ranger show up at their site and turn on the spotlight. Ooops no alcoholic beverages allowed in PA state parks, so don't move your picnic table to 10' from the road and then sit a dozen empty beer bottles on it out in plain view. I was entertained while sucking on my Coors Light in a coozy while watching them put all their beverages into a garbage bag provided by the ranger, which he threw in his truck and hauled off to the dumpsters.
I guess that was enough of this RVing. Early the next morning maintenance was there at 9 AM with the tractor, to yank the C out of the mud lol, and off they went, despite the site being held till Monday.
I am sure a negative review will be posted soon somewhere buy these morons. And the guy who lent them the 30 amp extension? He came to me later that day and asked what happened to the people next door? They took off with his cord lol.
Too many geezers, self appointed moderators, experts, and disappearing posts for me. Enjoy. How many times can the same thing be rehashed over and over?
