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Re: It's all a big waste. House vs RV
DutchmenSport wrote: Well, although I often dream of full timing, when it really comes down to it, I think I do enjoy home ownership. We have property in the country, and a 2800 square foot house all on 1 floor. With corn fields and bean fields for neighbors, we really enjoy our privacy. -snip- I love my camper, but I also love my house, and I guess I still love to piddle around, but I do love to vegetate when camping. And really, sometimes I wonder why we go to State Parks to camp and such when we've got more privacy, solitude, peace and quiet, and DARK night right here at home! Oh well. I suppose we go because sometimes the hermits have to come out of their holes! To each his own I guess! X2. If I want peace and quiet, I stay home. Not going to find that at most campgrounds. Different strokes for different folks.496Views0likes0Comments- 320Views0likes0Comments
Re: LED light replacement
crcr wrote: I have been buying them for many years on ebay, with excellent results. I recently bought about twenty 48 SMD panels for $1.77 each shipped from China to convert the ceiling lights in our new TT. I have converted several TT's and several tow vehicles to LED's. X2. Did the same thing. They worked out very well for us and we didnt have to break the bank.445Views0likes0CommentsRe: Disabled Parking Permits
We'll, ya'll convinced me. I guess I'll be using a placard from now on. If ya'll want to check MY credentials to know if I'm really disabled, you can call a cop (good luck with that), otherwise y'all can buzz off. Got a few nice scars of my own too. You know I never really had much interest in this topic before, but now that I see how easy it is to beat the system, I guess I'll take advantage of it myself. After all, it's no ones business to check on me so ya'll make sure to mind your own business if you see me. There are many more things to be worried about than whether I'm really legally handicapped or not. Thanks for the info folks, it will come in real handy from now on. (If I were only that dishonest. Or am I? You'll never know)630Views0likes0CommentsRe: Disabled Parking Permits
kernewek wrote: NYCgrrl wrote: Were I was disabled to the point that I received a special parking pass I really wouldn't care what anyone else thought. On the other hand I certainly don't pay attention to who is parking in the legal handicapped spots since I'm too busy looking for a spot of my own. Absolutely, if someone is entitled to and legally displays a permit, it is no business of anyone else to question or comment why they are parking in a reserved spot. Just asking the question. How does one know if someone's entitled to it and is legally displaying it? Does the mere fact that one has a placard mean that no one should question it? Seems to me that this is why there are problems.630Views0likes0CommentsRe: Disabled Parking Permits
Pirate wrote: I routinely hassle people who park on the blue lines, hogging the spot next to them. I think there should be two forms of handicap permits - those that need parking due to an assistive device like a wheelchair and those that just need to be close. I'm about sick of seeing someone snap up a front spot at a major store and then run in like nothing is wrong. The entire system is corrupt and full of lazy people. This last sentence is so true. Obviously no one is speaking to those of you who have real debilitating health conditions, so don't get offended, but there are an awful lot of lazy people out there and there is so much corruption going on that this system is beyond broken. So how does it get fixed? Instead of advocating for more spaces, how do we discourage the rampant abuses and misuse? Enforcement and high fines don't seem to have any effect, shaming doesn't seem to work, and evidently challenging someone is a grave offense, so what to do? I don't have the answer, but it seems to me that those who need these spaces would be open to anything that would keep abusers and the lazy out of those spaces. If I were a less than honest person, I could take my uncles placard at any time and go down to the local store and park, and no one would be the wiser. Even if someone asked me, I would just tell them to myob, and that I have an invisible disability. Isn't that what some people are suggesting? Don't for a minute think that this is not already happening. I know people who are doing it. I'm grateful that I don't need a disabled placard. I do not envy those that need one and that have to park at the front of the store. I am not lazy and in both my RV and my truck I always park the furthest away that I can find. It keeps the cart dings and door dings to a minimum. I guess there is no easy solution to this dilemma as long as there are selfish, lazy and corrupt people in the world.206Views0likes0CommentsRe: Disabled Parking Permits
By the sound of some of the comments here I am led to believe that many disabled folks are being regularly approached and verbally abused by snarling, blood thirsty vigilantes who think that these disabled folks are faking it when they use a handicap spot. Is that really a common occurrence or are some of you exaggerating a bit? As someone mentioned, what is wrong with being asked? If it keeps one faker from using a spot, doesn't that leave a spot available for a person who really needs it? In Florida where I live, handicap spots are harder to find than an honest politician, and fakers are everywhere. I knew a woman on my block who used her mothers handicap permit all the time, and she had no guilt about it what so ever.247Views0likes0CommentsCCC question - Cargo Carrying Capacity
When figuring CCC, do you include the weight of the fuel or not? I can't seem to get a straight answer. I've searched the net and depending on what site you pull up, the answer is always different. One site tells me that the CCC is the unladen weight of the vehicle before water, cargo, people, etc., but if DOES include fuel. Other sites say that the weight of fuel needs to be added. I know that there are going to be similar responses to this question so what I'm really looking for is some sort of "official" site or reference that I can look to. Either way, if I figured it correctly, I shouldn't have a problem with weight, but short of having it actually weighed, which I can't right now because I'm no where near a weigh station, so I'd like to find a written/published resource that I can look at. My weights are as follows. GVWR - 14050 UVW - 10901 Net CCC - 3149 lbs Minus H2O -332 Propane - 65 Cargo -500 People & dogs -400 Cloths -200 Misc -200 Leaves 1452 lbs of CCC left over Minus gas @ 335 lbs = 1117 lbs CCC remaining. Do these numbers seem reasonable, or am I missing something?2.1KViews0likes6CommentsRe: SAD, SAD, News today
Daveinet wrote: If you look at the pictures, there is a bend in the road. The driver had very little time to react. Per the question as to why I have made the conclusions I have, we never used to hear about crashes involving stopped vehicles along the side of the road. Now you seem to here it all the time. What changed? BTW:I do buy into the idea of the cop blocking the existing problem. But where I have a problem is when the cop takes up excessive space, well beyond the stopped vehicles. There are times when it is not in their best interest to do so. When the extra margin is needed, then do that with a warning car farther back, so traffic has time to respond safely. I guess I've just seen a lot of very poor situations. One that comes to mind is on a 3 lane road, cop had a car pulled over. The car that was pulled over was way off the road. The cop could have easily blocked his walking area next to the car, and still stayed off the road. Instead the cop blocked half the traffic lane. I was 2 lanes over and was able to observe 2 near misses, from a chain reaction as a result of cars stopping to get around the cop car half blocking the lane. Just seems so illogical to disturb the flow of traffic right at the point you want things to be the most safe. What changed? More traffic and higher speeds with many more distractions. Also, to presuppose that we know how much space or how many lanes an officer needs based upon a quick glance as we pass them by is just simply illogical and irresponsible. Can we tell based on our mere seconds of observation that the officer is involved in a regular traffic stop versus a felonious traffic stop, which would require a greater cushion of safety for both the officer and the public? Can we tell in a few seconds, how long the officer has actually been on scene? Can we tell after a few moments, that there is not another officer enroute to assist the first or that maybe another officer is simply not available due to distance or other calls? Apparently there are some people that can tell and they're called armchair quarterbacks. They know so little about so much.113Views0likes0Comments
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