There are many more for instances we could give you but this
one is the most recent of how ridiculous people are becoming…
We have been working at a RV Park, me in the office and
Jerry now just supposed to be escorting campers to their sites. This park is
not a destination park, more of an overnight park which means we turn over a
hundred of sites a night and we work the BUSY weekends and that part we love.
We are happier busy than sitting around doing nothing.
This particular day within a few moments of starting our
shift, a phone call came in from one of our sites that there was a sewer smell
at their site. We get those all the time because dumping is a foul smell, no
matter how it’s done and newbies don’t get that yet. So, I sent Jerry to
investigate and what happened was their neighbor who was leaving had for some
ungodly reason pulled out a 3” wide, by 3’ PVC pipe out of the ground that was
clearly marked with red paint as a water shut off and then proceeded to stick
their sewer hose into the ground and open their valve…yep, you read that right…they
definitely had to tug at this pipe to get it out of the ground which by the way
is located several feet away from the capped sewer drain and other utilities.
The photo is the proper set up on the site they were on, for most people it is obvious, would you use the red capped for your sewer?
The photo is the proper set up on the site they were on, for most people it is obvious, would you use the red capped for your sewer?
Jerry immediately called me to shut down that site and he went
to get the appropriate tools to fix the smelly issue. He rinsed, he poured Lyme
on it, he covered it with dirt but according to the neighbor, nothing was ever
enough. They each came over ranting about brain tumors and the smell permeating
into their cupboards but were not going to move. They even wanted us to call
the authorities since she said she was getting sicker by the minute. We think
they seen a way to make some easy money so they called the authorities. When he
showed up and seen what a little mess it was and that it was being tended too he
firmly expressed to them that they absolutely went way too far for nothing.
They stayed a few more nights and continued taking photos of
the ground and us driving around on the golf carts and continued to grab
anybody they could that was walking by to have them smell the area and tell
their story. They continued to share with us that they had never been to a
place where people dumped on the ground and we agreed but they continued to
blame us for the idiots that left the mess.
We were so happy to finally see them go but it was another
hilarious sight to see when the man went to dump his sewer that he put on long
rubber gloves that went clear up to his arm pits and a hazmat mask…funniest
thing we seen. But when he was finished he took the mask off with the gloves
still on and threw the mask and gloves into one of his bins where he stored his
water hose.
Not sure what this world is coming to when people just do
not take responsibility for their errors and when it seems that every event
warrants a lawsuit. Just the life of a full time traveler I guess…keeps it
exciting and give me loads of writing material.
