What's Going On in the Showers?
Part of the "Life In 300 Square Feet" Series
What in the world is going on in the campground restroom and shower house every morning? This is one of those great unanswered questions that we, as first-year fulltimers have. Is it a card game? a meeting of some sort? people plotting the overthrow of the government?
I get up in the morning, usually with the sun. The first thing I do... (ok, maybe not the first thing)... is to make a pot of coffee. While coffee's brewing, fire up the computer and the internet router. Once coffee's brewed, pour a cup, punch up the list of blogs and news I like to read every morning, and read, sip coffee, and watch the goings-on around the campground.
Almost every morning, I see people... sometimes one or two and sometimes more... climb down out of their expensive campers and, with towel and some little bag in hand, head over to the public restroom and shower house building.
OK, what am I missing here? We have a lower end diesel pusher camper and ours came, no extra charge, with a complete bathroom. It's got a great shower, two bath sinks, a good reliable toilet, mirrors, cabinets -- and all of these things have one thing in common... they're mine. I know what's been going on with these fixtures, who's been using them, what diseases and maladies those using them might have. They're comfortable, you know how they function, and you know they're clean, and if they're not clean, it's your "not-clean".
I can only surmise that these people bought nice campers but chose to save a few bucks by ordering the fifth-wheel without bathroom fixtures. Or did they simply forget to ask and didn't realize until the check had cleared that there's no friggin toilet or shower in the motorhome? Huh?
I suppose it's possible that the bathroom fixtures are "in-op" -- not in a functioning condition -- busted. Or that they had been using the facilities normally until the tanks filled up and they haven't figured out how to dump yet? But it seems to be so many people. I don't think the "busted fixture" or "full tank" hypothesis are going to hold water. {rim shot} Wouldn't anybody prefer to use their own bathroom fixtures rather than those in a public restroom?
So my question remains... What's going on in the restroom and shower house every morning?
Thom
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5 comments:
Not sure about those in expensive rigs but for me, the shower in the RV is a storage spot for extra water. To use the shower I have to spend 10 minutes moving everything out into the hallway first. Then it has to sit there until the shower floor dries.
Factor in a small hot water tank....the campground shower lets me run it long and hot...a real splurge for one with arthritis and fibromyalgia. That said, I always wear my flip-flops, just in case. ;-)
Most RV have only a 6 or 10 gallons hot water tank. But many people like long hot shower, including me.
Thanks for the comments Froggi Donna and Tom. This newbie is, perhaps, beginning to understand. There can be valid reasons for the morning walk to the showers.
Thom
SO GO FIND OUT! WHAT'S SO COMPLICATED ABOUT THIS?
HEY, TRIED CALLING ABOUT 7:20. DAR'S NO. NO LONGER WORKS, NO ANS. ON YOURS. LADY'S B-DAY TOMORROW SO TRYING TO WISH HER JUST THAT.
JIM THINKS YOU'LL BE IN OUR DRIVEWAY TOMORROW:) MISS YA GUYS AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU. SUE
I brought up the shower thing for a smart person I know to help figure out. Keep in mind, this person has made only one serious mistake in her life. Her take on the showers:
Some of the RV folks, just some, might prefer the extra room the public shower provides over the narrow confines of the bus house. They may not be as slim as Thom & Dar.
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