Blue, sunny skies, not rain and clouds that the weatherman predicted greeted us this morning. For this we are thankful.
Bob worked his normal hours today and I worked a split shift. I worked 8 - 1 and then 4 - 7. In my few hours off today I did our laundry and cooked fried chicken for our dinner later.
Several campers came in the office this morning to inquire about the pool. We explained over and over again that the pool was filling as fast as the two hoses in it would allow and that we hoped it would be full enough by this afternoon to turn the pump on. Some people can be so nasty! One particular woman came in almost hourly and each time she got nastier and meaner with her complaints about her kids not being able to swim. We're sorry its not ready but the caulk that was put in the seams took longer dry than was anticipated and that set us back a day in filling it. We told her it was fifty three degree water and that the kids probably wouldn't want to go in it anyway. She didn't want to hear it. Another fellow came in and wanted to take his two year old swimming. The kid would have turned blue in two minutes and I'm doubting the dad would have gone in to begin with once he felt how cold the water is!
Then the complaints started coming in. It seems one guy in one of the Kabins didn't want to walk to the rest rooms to relieve himself last night and chose to empty his bladder outside his kabin. Evidently he had quite a bit of beer, or a very small bladder, and did this several times .....in full view! Dan went and had a talk with him and they packed up and left shortly thereafter.
The people in the rig next to ours had two toddlers with them and just threw the dirty diapers out the door! I mentioned it to Dan and Barb and Dan took the lady a bag. She said she didn't have a bag to put them in and Dan said, Here's one, please clean this up and don't throw them out the door again as he was getting complaints. She was miffed. The nerve! I guess it really does take all kinds to make the world go round.
The office was quite busy today with us giving directions to area attractions, I was absolutely useless in this area unless somebody wanted directions to Walmart. I know where that is!
By the end of the day the ice box was practically empty so I know what I'll be doing tomorrow!
By late afternoon the clouds started rolling in and the wind picked up. We kept an eye on the Doppler radar on the computer and it looked like we were in for it. We had several people from the Meramec Caverns campground come in looking for a Kabin for the night as they heard the storm was coming on the radio. We only had one available due to that early checkout so we had to send several away dreading their night in a tent. If it had been me, I would have been heading HOME!
Just as I got off work at seven the rain came. In buckets! Lots of thunder and lightning. We scrambled to batten down the hatches around our site, putting the tomato plants under the slide out to protect them from the winds, putting our chairs away and taking down the wind chimes. Making sure the windows that aren't jalousies were closed and tightening the tie downs on the awning so it doesn't get damaged.
We kept looking out the kitchen windows to the tent area and felt so sorry for those people. Some of them are in very small tents!
Finally around nine o'clock the rain tapered off to a drizzle, the worst was over. We're supposed to get more rain tomorrow and then again on Monday. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have the tent-ers leaving tomorrow morning.
At least the rain helped fill the pool.
1 comment:
Have some compassion for the campers expecting the use of a pool on Memorial day weekend and find out otherwise. Take the flack and hold your tongue. I was in retail for 26 years and had to "HOLD IT BACK" many times. I'm sure you wanted to tell them to " Sure, go ahead into the pool and enjoy" and then giggle when you heard the screams....lol
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