impatience for the loss....

[katzklaw]

this is only a minor suck... and it could have been a LOT worse, but it is still a suck, therefore it is here...

so i just now registered a camper, and as it is quiet and my partner in crime is out mowing grass, i'm escorting campers to their sites myself. checkin progressed normally... guy asked for a 30 amp site for a big-arse 5th wheel so i automatically have him pegged as a cheap-arse (larger 5th wheels and motorhomes are usually 50 amp), but i gave him a nice site with a smile, and told him i would be escorting him. well... he takes off before i can get the golf cart turned around, even though he saw me come out the door after him and get into the cart. he knows what site he's going to, and fortunately our park is relatively straightforward, so i just shrug and shoot around to the other end of his site down the other road so i can tell him where to stop and point out where the hookups are... and the dude who couldn't wait for an escort for his 36 foot nice expensive camper cut the turn too tight (if he'd been following me i would have indicated to swing out on the turn) and came dangerously close to scraping the side of his rig on a tree, and ended up all crooked across the concrete pad of his site.

ah well. he seemed happy enough, thankfully.

[MoonCat]

Probably drives like that all the time. Ew.

[katzklaw]

unfortunately it's a more common problem than it should be...people drive their 30 foot, 40 foot. 45 foot monstrosities that cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars (or even over a mill from some of the Prevost rigs) as if they are the family sedan and don't take into account the extra length and turning radius... sometimes they forget the width too. i still remember at the 2nd park i ever worked at, the driveway was lined with HUGE boulders... like car sized... and one guy whipped around one of the turns in his 39 foot motorhome as if it were a car, and ran it up into one of the rocks and ripped off 2 of the storage bay doors. and it wasn't even the first time he'd done something like that... he just grabbed the doors and shoved em into the bays they came out of, and his wife was just like "again?" O.o

[AnaKhouri]

I wonder if he was maybe trying to ditch you so he could pay for a cheaper site and then park on a more expensive one, hoping you wouldn't notice?

[katzklaw]

Me, my husband who also works here, and both managers live on the park, and the owners are visiting. He wouldn't have got away with it if that had been his intention.

[Slave to the Phone]

Some of the roads in Arizona are very steep and twisty. I see RV parts on the sides of those roads ALL the time.

[Aragarthiel]

Some of the roads in Arizona are very steep and twisty. I see RV parts on the sides of those roads ALL the time.

I once took a field trip to Colossal Cave near Tucson, and on the way back, our bus driver put one of the front wheels over the edge of a cliff. So I can't deny the RV parts, especially seeing as that there are probably very few professional RV drivers.

[notalwaysright]

My dad's pretty good at driving with a trailer. Years of camping every other weekend, in all kinds of environments. Rarely did we use a true RV park with hookups, but when we did he let the attendant spot for him. I doubt he really needed much help, when we parked at his house I directed him, or if I wasn't there he did it himself. This was a tight spot in between a garage and his neighbor's RV. I should say, we got stuck plenty of times... In snow, in mud, in sand.

I remember once we were waiting in line to dump the tanks, and the family in front had one of those huge fifth wheels, tilt-outs on both sides, tiny yapping dog... They did not know how to do it. Some guys in our group had to help them. They weren't sucky, just very new (we hoped!) and there was much talking and pointing before they figured it out.

[Slave to the Phone]

I once took a field trip to Colossal Cave near Tucson, and on the way back, our bus driver put one of the front wheels over the edge of a cliff.

Some of those cliffs are a very long way down. How many people lined up to use the restroom after that scare?

[Shalom]

Some of those cliffs are a very long way down. How many people lined up to use the restroom after that scare?

My guess is none, because they probably didn't have to go anymore after that.

[XCashier]

Some of the roads in Arizona are very steep and twisty. I see RV parts on the sides of those roads ALL the time.

And worse. I remember one horribly twisty, turning highway that was heavily lined with white crosses on both sides, where there were fatal accidents. Yeah. I took my time and drove extra carefully on that road.