Saturday mid-morning
My manager called yesterday, I didn't answer the phone. I was in no mood at the time to talk to anyone. I have continuing side effects from this antibiotics and basically keeping to myself as much as possible.
Of course, that didn't actually play out yesterday as there were 3 things I had to deal with.
1: The new guy and his completely trashed out trailer. He completely lied about that thing and it pissed me off, frankly. Allen tried to talk to him and basically left it to me to deal with. He was telling me the trailer is bad but the guy wants to move it to the parking area to work on it. Well, enough text messages from other people in the park and I decided to get into my SUV, drive over there and take a look at it myself.
A worthless pile of trash, yes the roof is falling in, the seams were bust out on the sides, it was actually missing wheels and tires on the front axle, with the front axle having broken springs - well you get the picture. The epitome of the definition of a trailer trash park, I immediately told him I did not want that thing in my park, he can have his money back. I'm not going to get a reputation of trailer trash, sorry. Nice guy, I didn't get foul with him, but my politeness was firm: I can't have that trailer anywhere on this property. He said he'd have it out of there tomorrow, which is now today.
I left it at that, I made my point, let's see if he follows through with it. Meanwhile, he has a friend who has a decent looking trailer that he is going to use instead. I know it's a decent looking trailer because I demanded pictures of it.
2. I get a call from a retired couple in the park, they've been there maybe 6 months? I dunno, I'd have to look it up. She starts telling me this sob story about her sister who is living in a hotel, working for a man that was arrested for - embezzlement I guess - and out of a job. She has nowhere to go, on and on and on until we got to the part about my motorcoach. That coach, I said, is in pretty bad condition on the interior and needs major work. I don't have anywhere to park it, either, there are no hookups available. This went back and forth, I told her I would have a conversation with someone else about it.
And I did, I called Allen who has hung out with the retired couple to see if he knows anything about the sister? It was really a mixed bag of information and it made it difficult to make a decision. After what I've already gone through with other people trying to help them out, why would I want to go through that again? I decided to give them a very limited time there and they really need to find their own housing somewhere. I'm not a heartless person, at the same time, I've been down this road and it usually doesn't have a pleasant ending. Find another job, save up enough to get your own place, go there and live there.
3. The kids. It was the day for the water fun at the church. So I took them. 6:30 to 8:30 pm, I dropped them off, noting the giant waterslide they had set up out there. Went over to the park - the church is a couple of miles from the park - hung out with Allen and Russ for a couple of hours, left, got the kids who were totally jazzed about the event they had just been at going on an on about it all the way home. So at least one success yesterday.
Today. Head back over to the park around noon or maybe a little later, find out about this guy moving the trailer and these other people. One thing about "these other people" is that that coach is well away from the park right now. I had moved it out of the lot it was in to clear the way for Robert's trailer. I want that ugly trailer off of my property immediately, it's not something I'm going to give that guy time with. I'll have the thing towed out of there if I have to but that thing is not sticking around. It belongs in the local landfill - which I did say to him actually. Amazingly, the man agreed, it's not fixable. You can't repair something that far gone. It's just junk. I'll check with the "other people" to see if they even moved in or what's going on with them.
As of last night, they had shown up, asked about a generator and then left with the couple that lives there. I have no idea whether they came back or what. I wouldn't stay in that thing without at least a deep cleaning first. Rats and cockroaches.
I'm also looking out for the tractor arrival. Regardless of how I feel, I will put that thing to use. You try not to waste opportunities like that.
Trolling motor. It was supposed to arrive next week. Then they said it's arriving early! The 9th, yesterday. Then it was updated to being delivered today. Now? It's sitting at the FedEx facility in Bossier City and getting delivered on Monday. No idea why it wasn't delivered today, it was sitting there in Bossier yesterday. Then again, it's Saturday so maybe they don't do normal deliveries on Saturdays. Don't care really, no in the position right now to start working on that boat. Just weird they keep moving the date around like that.
Nothing else I don't think. Time to take a shower and get over to the park.
G'day
