The size of some of these trailers amazes me. And you go inside and they are like a house, just smaller version of one. This dude just called and said his parents live on the same street my park is, do you have anything available for a week starting today? Oh yes, yes I do. But, this guy says his trailer is a whopping 48 feet long! That is a BIG trailer! I think the longest one that's come in so far is 44 feet and those are huge as it stands. Conversation coming to a close, "let me talk to my wife" etc. So no real commitment there, but there price I gave him was the weekly price.
No one in the area has a lower price than mine on weekly. The reason I stay relatively full - pricing. I lower and raise it depending on how many lots are filled. Right now, I have a guy leaving today plus 2 lots already empty. So, my pricing will probably come down $25 per month to help get some people in there. There was a person that said they have to move this weekend, but the didn't commit to my park. So I won't really count them as anything unless they show up.
So funny, too, how people "just show up". And will take a space! Oh, it's empty, it must be available! some people think without understanding that I have a reservation system and someone could be showing up that day or even a day or more later. I don't have a sign up out there that says "if you didn't call or reserve a spot, please just take whatever lot is empty". It was nice to see the place completely filled up last night and lots of people out enjoying themselves with a fire or having friends over. There were a lot of people outside, amazingly enough.
However, I think the rain that came out of nowhere and wasn't in any forecast dampened things a little, no pun intended lol. It started a light rain hours before they said it would and went on until around 2:00 am. There was just enough thunder to keep me awake. So yes, I'm feeling pretty much toast this morning. I forced myself out of bed anyway. I never could use the "oh, there was thunder last night and I didn't get enough sleep so I'm not going in to work today!" in the regular work force so I force myself - mostly - to not do that now. If I am feeling really sh****, I will stay in bed longer.
Strange. This on is perplexing. Someone just made a reservation for lot 12 for Sunday. Lot 12 is blacked out, it's not possible - or shouldn't be anyway - to make a reservation for that day. I don't get it. I'm going to have to contact the web designer about this, I black the dates out for phone called in dates or other site dates that aren't connected to my software for a reason: So I actually have the damn space available. If this guy moves out today like he says he is, I can cover it - but - I won't be able to take in that long term if they happen to show up. But they never committed so I am not going to worry about that. I could just cancel this new reservation and tell them there is nothing available - but I'm not losing sales on a person that didn't say if they were coming or not.
So, the dude moving out today, even if he gets hung up another day, I can accommodate those people. If this long term just shows up, I'm going to tell them I have nothing available until after Sunday. Sorry, you should have called back. Please leave, lmao. No I wouldn't say that to them, just that I can put them up until Sunday, but they'd have to move to the hipcamp area for a day before I could have them stay there. They won't like to hear that and probably will just leave, but at least I have options. All of these trailers are self contained and have holding tanks. Not to mention I have a bathroom available. And I could throw them a 110 volt line out the shed for at least minimal electricity if they don't have a generator.
See, I would allow a generator because it's behind the shed and far enough away that the noise shouldn't really bother anyone. Of course, these people wanting a week didn't confirm, either. It was "I'll call back later". They can, of course, leave their options open, but the RV industry is pretty fickle about having sites available. One can be available when a person calls and then taken if they call back 2 hours later.
Bud Light. What a stupid decision they made. I just read the on-going news and shake my head. Whoever is in advertising for them should be fired. I mean, if you don't give a s*** about what happens to your business and plummeting sales, then by all means, go ahead and take a swipe at your customer base. Their sales have tanked and I suspect it will continue on a downward slope. Last week reported 26% down, it's highly doubtful they are going to see it rise any and probably will continue to fall, contrary to what the CEO is saying, who believes they'll weather this storm and come out ahead.
Ahead with who? The blue collar workers that drink it? The rednecks that drink it? Most of the stories I am reading say that people won't return to it until Bud Light issues an apology. Well, you know they will never do that, they can't do that. Well, they could and the backlash from the lefties would be severe, but how many lefties are drinking Bud Light? Lmao, probably not that many. It's not the left that they pissed off, it's conservatives/republicans who don't believe in the glorification of trans people which is a very, very small percentage of the American public anyway.
You have the largest selling beer brand in America entering the political foray, isolating it's customer core and they think...what...would happen? Yes, they say it wasn't a marketing strategy, it was only a gesture to a trans activist. Ok .... and? It got out, the people that drink who aren't trans - which is probably most of their customers - aren't agreeable to that lifestyle. Now, you have people saying at a bar or at a supermarket or wherever it's sold saying "you're buying THAT?!!". There is a video circulating on Tik Tok showing a vendor that sells Bud Light with no line at all at it and a few feet down the way a different vendor with a huge line.
This isn't Nike where probably more lefties buy that brand and therefore, a boycott won't hardly affect them. I laugh at lefties who say that this will die down and go away and then start to mock the right because of it. They have no understanding of the dynamics of what's going on here. Time will tell. I suspect many people will never return to BL, regardless of their intended, huge marketing ploy. People get offended? They move on. I'm not currently drinking any beer anyway, I'm on keto and I'm trying to lose weight, but I didn't drink BL before. InBev bought out Anheuser Busch some years ago - a Belgium owned company that owns a massive amount of different beer brands. I just said no thank you, an iconic, American owned company steeped in American patriotism sold out.
That's a part of my take, I ain't writing anymore about it. My reach is limited and my blog is mostly about my daily ..doings....if someone wanted to censor me for writing this on here, go right ahead and try. You won't get very far, lol. OHH! and then there's this "trans hating" because we don't want to be subjected to this stuff. Not. I don't hate trans people at all. I just don't need to see it being pushed down elementary school aged children's throats. Or giving them the drugs to stop puberty and start "transitioning" without a parent's consent or even knowledge. This is where the real battle ground is: minors being groomed into believing this kind of mentality is good and they should pursue it and if your parents don't want to help you, we'll do it for them without their permission.
SCREW THAT. If you are an adult and you want to try to turn into something you aren't and never will be, go right ahead. Your chromosomes won't be changed, you can only change your appearance. But don't even try to start telling kids in class rooms that this behavior is somehow normal and should be accepted by everyone. I'm not going to have politically correct verbiage in this issue.
Enough. It's getting later in the morning. I forgot to put my clothes into the dryer last night, hence I'm sitting here waiting for them to dry. I guess I could have gotten out my 34's and see if they fit, one pair of them does, but it's a little tight. I'll be going to walmart at some point and still getting 35's, just a couple of pair. I want to be in 34's again so badly - but for right now, it's better to get some looser fitting stuff than stuff that is too tight. Very uncomfortable.
G'day
