Tuesday, April 16, 2024

 So, I drive up to Gurdon, feeling miserable I might add.  It was at least good that the product was over 60 degrees inside the tanker and therefore, the delivery was much shorter time than many previous deliveries. But I was soooo tired.  I tried to take a nap while the glue was draining,  just wasn't happening.  

Anyway, I'm on my way back and this lady contacts me: her boyfriend and the other dude living with her basically shafted her, she needs to leave.  Ok.....do you know anyone that might want to buy the trailer?  Long story short, I said I'd ask around, which I was going to do.  

Well, I pull into the park and lo and behold, her whole family is out there moving her out.  I mean, we went from moving out before the rent is due to moving out today. Whatever.  I thought nothing of it.

Fast forward many hours and another person calls. You know those people dumped trash all around the dumpster? Which people? The ones that moved out.  You mean they took the trailer out as well?  So I'm thinking, well how bad can it be, the trash around the dumpster that is?  

I found out.  Some travelers had called earlier needing a place, I had to go over and collect their payment.  The dumpster? There was a huge pile of trash sitting next to the dumpster on the ground and they had over loaded it.  It gets worse.  After I left, well, I hadn't seen the huge amount of trash they had thrown behind the dumpster. This is at  least an entire dumpster worth of trash laying next to it.  They also left a oil drain pan full of, what else? Used oil.   

I was pissed. I texted her, replete with pictures of the disaster she had left.  I flat told her I am not eating this, you either need to come back and clean this shit up or pay me to deal with it.  She ignored my texts for a while but then finally tried to tell me that since she had left early, can I work with her on it?  I guess she thinks I will immediately have that lot re-rented. There is another lot that needs re-rented already and then hers.  

But I unloaded on her.  Why would you treat me this way? You dump trash all around the dumpster and act like a bunch of hillbillies and expect my @$$ to deal with it? WTH.  Yes, I was pissed.  Especially after she said it wasn't her stuff, it was those guys living with her.  YOU rented the LOT, YOU are responsible, not to mention those guys didn't dump that stuff there, she and her family did.                  

I had to stop texting her. It was just too much. Like it's somehow normal to just dump a bunch of junk - as we are talking a lot of stuff here - on the ground and then act is if it's somehow MY responsibility to deal with it.  

Amazingly irresponsible and completely selfish, asinine bs.   I just can't believe people sometimes.  

Whatever.  

 I had to take  a long nap after I returned home today, I was completely out of it.  Wednesday and Thursday are days off. I only needed Thursday off, but the way it works...it's a 2 day run.  So, I'm working Friday and Saturday, they wanted me to work Sunday. Nope.  I worked last Sunday, you are welcome to schedule me for the following Sunday but I'm not missing two weeks in a row of church.  

Well, just realized it's getting late.  I don't have anything forced upon me tomorrow, stuff I'd like to get done but I'm not going to fret it if I don't.  This tax thing really got to me and I don't mind relaxing for a day.  







 Tuesday - early

Sleep eluded me last night.  Fall asleep, wake up, fall asleep, wake up.  Too much stuff going on in my mind and wasn't feeling all the great either.

In fact, if the tanker wasn't loaded with glue, I'd call in sick today.  Not that I am sick per se, just tired and not feeling it.  

I think it's the tax stuff that has really messed with me in the last week or so.  "Your Federal Tax was accepted by the IRS", Turbotax sent me an email. Well, whatever that means. Accepted could simply mean they have it. Do they review these things? Or is it just some sort of program that scans them?  I can't imagine them individually reviewing hundreds of millions of tax returns, but who knows?  I'm sure AI will be involved with this in the future if it isn't already.  

Well, at least they have it.  Sent in on time, barely.  

Today, I'm supposed to offload the tanker and then go switch out trucks. 

However, from how I'm feeling right now? Switching out trucks can wait.  We'll see how I feel later on today when I'm leaving the plant. It's a decision that actually needs to be made before leaving the plant, because going to El Dorado necessarily means heading south on a 2 lane highway that starts in Gurdon.  That is the only way to get down there, other than that, you go way out of your way to get to Eldo from there. 

Anyway, I have an open lot I need filled at the park and I think there are more openings coming.  I'll wait for more to open up before I take out another Facebook ad boost.  I have ads on there, just on my business home page.  It's the ad boost that targets people looking for RV parks.  It is inexpensive and usually generates results. Not always, but generally I'll get one or more people in the park out of those ads being "boosted".  

Anyway, I have 20 minutes to get my stuff ready and get out of here.

G'day

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