5/28/2010 One Hundred New Campers In Today

My morning started early today, try 7 a.m. on for size. I worked with Linda this morning on the reservation cards, taking the ones down for those who are leaving today and putting the new ones up for those who are coming in. One hundred sites will change campers today. We have to walk up and down every road to 147 campsites and 37 tent sites. It took us about and hour and half to get it all done. It’s not just a matter of exchanging or putting the reservation cards on the post, there is also accompanying paperwork to be done. We have a sheet of paper that is marked with yellow highlighter all the sites that have changes for the day. If the campers have already vacated the site we put an “x” through the highlighted number, if they are still there we circle it. When this was done we each went back to our own rigs and had breakfast, read email and passed the time till ten when it was then our job to get into the golf cart and ride up and down the streets and put “x’s” through the circled numbers to indicate that the campers had left sometime in the last hour and a half. We notified the check-in booth which sites were now empty and ready for the next campers to come in. We did this again at eleven and at this pass gave each camper that had no signs of even starting to break camp a gentle reminded that check out is noon. By noon everyone had vacated and my day was done.

In the meantime, Bob walked around the campground with the grabbers and a bucket and made an attempt at litter control. Damn, people are slobs! Now his day was done.

Of course we still had to check the restrooms for toilet paper sometime this evening but that doesn’t take long at all.

We decided a ride into Rehoboth Beach (Ree-hoe-bith) was in order because we needed to get a water pressure regulator. Right now our water pressure in the rig is the pits just adequate because he has it turned down until we can monitor and regulate it. There is good water pressure here in this park but until he can control it we stay on the safe side. No sense in asking for blown pipes.

Shopping done, we stopped to get fuel for the truck since we hadn’t gotten any since we filled when arrived in Delaware a month ago. You don’t drive much when the fishing is just a four minute walk away and the bait and tackle store is less than a mile round trip. I found an even closer grocery store just 5 miles away. In short, we aren’t using much fuel even though the price has been coming down. It has gone from $3.14 down to $2.97 in just the last two weeks.

Now here is where we ran into trouble. Not many stations around here sell diesel. I don’t know why, they just don’t. With this being a resort area with lots of motor homes and diesel trailer/5th wheel towing trucks here a lot one would think there would be more.

Now I’m sure you are all very familiar with the BP Oil Company. You would have to live under a rock not to know that name. We went into a BP station for fuel and….well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, what do you see “wrong” with this picture?

Not seeing it yet? How about this one?

It is STANDARD, it is USUAL for the DIESEL pump to have the GREEN handle……

……just as it is STANDARD, USUAL for the gasoline pump handle to be BLACK. All across America and Canada as far as I know this is the way it is. NOT SO in BP land. Bob had said to me, “WOW, it’s down to $2.73 a gallon.” Then he realized he was at the GAS pump. Luckily, he had pumped just over a gallon of gas into our diesel truck. We don’t expect any problems, in fact, if anything it may clean the injectors. I don’t know that for sure but it certainly did sound good when I typed it.

I went into the gas station store ready to give somebody a piece of my mind but the fellow behind the desk said before I even got two words out, “It’s not us, it’s BP, they changed the handles.” It seems as though a lot of people are putting the wrong fuel in their vehicles, gas into diesel and diesel into gas because for forever and day you could depend on the colors to denote what you were pumping. Thanks BP, something tells me you aren’t going to be in business long, not after your corner cutting that is playing havoc with our eco system now and the amount of costly repairs you are causing at your gas stations for the American driver. Nope, I don’t think your are going to be around much longer. I wanted to write BP a letter about this practice but I found a forum that is addressing this issue of green and black handles already on line. It seems that BP is taking a stance that the consumer should pay attention to what its doing. Granted, the consumer should be aware of their actions but dammit when diesel pump handles have ALWAYS been green well,,,,you just don’t pay attention anymore. I know, I know, our bad.

Well, Memorial Day weekend is upon us. I can’t wait to see what the weekend brings.