5/29/2010 A TEN Hour Day!

Get yourself a drink and settle back, this could be a long one.

This was a long day! Today Linda and I worked together again on the cards. We’ve decided that we’ll work together since her day is Friday and mine is Saturday because we are filling in for Annie on her days off. Probably next Friday she’ll do half and I’ll do half and we’ll get done in half the time as this week. At least that’s the plan.

We only had 24 sites changing today so it didn’t take long at all to the card and paperwork part. We parted way after an hour with an agreement to meet at ten.

A good part of the campers that were supposed to leave today had and the rest were starting the job of packing up. When we met again at eleven to do a round on the golf cart we were down to 4 sites that needed to be vacated. Three of them were actively tearing down and putting things away and the fourth,,,.well, not so much. Yes, we could see where the mom of the couple with four little kids was starting to get ready to leave but she had a long ways to go to make the noon checkout time.

Linda and I hung out at the check in booth talking with Lynn and Bernie and at eleven thirty took another ride around the park. One of the last four was hitching the car to the motor home so we knew it wouldn’t be long and they’d be gone, one had left, one tent site was packing up the last of their camping equipment so we were confident they would be out by noon and then there was the couple with four little kids. From the looks of it not much progress had been made so we stopped and gently reminded the mom that checkout was at noon. She smiled and said, yes, she knew.

Back at the check in booth we were letting them know the status and this van passed us coming into the park. We recognized it as the one belonging to the couple with four little kids. No wonder, they weren’t gone yet. We talked a few minutes more and got back in the golf cart. We rode by the site to see how things were coming and they were EATING LUNCH! All the kids and the mom and dad were sitting down at the picnic table eating lunch! It’s now just a few minutes before noon and toys and blankets and boxes and camping equipment are all over the place and they are eating lunch! Linda called out and said, “Checkout is at a noon” and they smiled and waved and said they knew. Linda and I just looked at each other rolled our eyes.

It was noon, we were done. Bernie from the booth decided he would go over and let them know they that had to go and go soon. After all, their site was rented to someone else. He took the cart and we waited till he returned. He said when he got there they were all sitting there ….still eating lunch….and they waved and smiled and said yes they knew checkout was at noon. It’s now 12:15 and they have a long ways to go. It takes all kinds….doesn’t it?

Bob had done litter thing in the morning and then went fishing.

At four I had to go in and cover the store for three hours. They have to find a new way for shift changes because the way it is now…well, it ain’t workin’. I ended up making sales by writing the items on a post it note, making change out of my bank which is still in the pouch and this went on for a half hour! It’s Memorial Day weekend, the park is packed, the store is busy and I have to wait for the day guy to prove his drawer out. Bad idea and its got to change.

I was very busy inside with store sales and Bob was kept hopping with ice sales outside. I did two thirds of the business in three hours that the store did in eight,,….yep, I was busy. It did make the time fly by.

And the day isn’t over yet. Since today was my day for the reservation cards it was up to me to write up the cards and get the paperwork ready for the next day. Thankfully, there were only 24 site changes so it didn’t take too long.

Remember when I said that Site # 242 was a NO COOK ZONE on Saturday’s? Well, there was no cooking going on tonight and not because it was a NO COOK ZONE….nope, I was too darn tired to eat and Bob was on his own!

It looks like I’m only going to have to work Saturday’s, Monday’s and Tuesday’s to get my hours in for the week. I knew that early schedule was too good to be true but I’m sure not complaining about this! My Saturday’s will be like today, Monday’s I’ll work the store and on Tuesday’s I’ll work in the store with Linda. We may to re-think working together on Friday and Saturday's. Oh well, we'll figure it out. The rest of the time will be mine. Ya gotta love it!