RV ownership isn’t for everyone. Imagine having to repair a car and an extremely poorly-built house at the same time. Well, with exceptions, that’s what RV ownership is like. Oh yeah, you also have to dump your waste somewhere from time to time.
I wrote about the ginormous 30-foot and 9,000-pound camper perched on top of a Ford F-550. Most of you roasted it, which brought a smile to my face. One reader mentioned a $100 hotel room as an alternative to an RV. Max Headbolts:
And you don’t have to look for a tank of diesel to dump your poo every few days.
StillNotATony also got me with this line:
Buy this rig and never see a traffic light again!
Mark gave us a hilarious four-vehicle Shitbox Showdown under the premise of “your neighbor has offered to lend you one of his seventeen cars. These four are the only ones that run, though, so you’ll have to choose from them.” Lincoln Clown CaR:
You guys realize not everyone lives like this, right?
The Bishop wrote about how Ford trucks used to have an option for an under-hood chainsaw. Sid Bridge:
Chrysler… The ONLY chainsaw for rich, Corinthian Leatherface.
Spikedlemon:
Corinthian Leatherface’s sad backstory: a 4XE chainsaw sadly catching fire and burning him, leaving him bitter with the world, and resentful to the world but so unflinchingly loyal to Stellantis-branded products that he needs to excise 7 slots in the front end of anyone to get too close to him.
Finally, I wrote about how I will be joining Operation Frodo to help rescue abandoned beagles. I love how everyone has a great pet story. Hoser68:
The short answer to “what’s wrong” is normally meth where I live.
However, the key is to know the good stories outweigh the bad. By a wide margin. For example:
Some old woman (?) had a dog. She wasn’t taking care of it, but with dementia, this can be excused. The dog got horrible skin problems.
The heir got the dog. He went to put it down because it was mean. It wasn’t mean, just hurt, scared and ugly.
So far, 1 asshat, 1 unknown. Easy to get a bad opinion on humanity there. However, the story does end. The vet refused to put down the dog, A vet tech took in the dog to take care of it and found my wife was willing to foster it.So when the dog came to us, there were already 2 great people involved.
Then for adoption, a family contacted us specifically because they wanted a small child friendly small, old dog to give them the best end of life possible. They knew that this older dog wouldn’t be around long, but having a loving family for him was something important to them. We had discovered this old dog liked children and gave it a shot. So, here’s family of 2 wonderful parents and 3 wonderful kids giving an old guy a shot.
So, now it’s 7 wonderful people, offset the actions of 1 asshat.
But the story doesn’t end there. We don’t know this dog’s real history. As he recovered from the infection and was in a home with children, he blossomed. BIG time. 5 years later, and we get videos of the “old guy” absolutely sprinting around the back yard chasing bubbles with the girls. We get pictures of him snuggled under the blankets with their youngest. He’s a handsome little terrier and it’s hard to believe he’s 5, nevertheless 5+ whatever age he was when the owner tried to put him down. He seems to be aging in reverse.
That horrible person that wanted to put down a dog that just needed medication, good food and some love is more than outweighed by the rest of the story. That makes working in animal rescue worth it.
And this is one of dozens of stories about good overcoming evil that I can share.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Topshot graphic image: Sony Pictures
People who foster animals (and children) should be cherished.
RVs, I’ve shared this before, but during Covid, I got into watching the adventures of Brits that do narrowboating. Which is basically RVing at 2 mph.
One of them explained why he had cassette toilets. Because the black tank in most narrow boats is under the bed and he had never seen the tank pumped out at a service center without some “spillage”. When that happens, the entire town knows and the bed is right under the…
Yeah, Hotels sound good to me.
Re: Hoser68’s story: Shut up, I’m not crying, you’re crying.
COTY
It’s not an uncommon story in animal rescue. I’ve have stories about dogs that were born in the back of a pickup truck living their best lives 1500 miles away and stories of a non-verbal autistic child who’s first word at 5 years old was the name of a dog his dad adopted. I can go on and on.
Because honestly, without this people in animal rescue would burn out very quickly. For I have other stories, which I don’t think anyone other than a prosecutor should here.
I’m glad there are people like you in this world.
Our old girl (14ish year old pitbull mix) was found wandering in a public park still attached to a tether she had chewed through to escape her first “family”. She was around 6 when we adopted her, and you’d never know she was abused early in life. Just a big old love bug.
After getting a bedbug infestation after staying in a hotel once and later finding them at another hotel before we slept….
The value of not worrying about those little bloodsuckers is high.
Being able to sleep in your own bedding is the no. 1 reason I cite for traveling in the van.
Not having to wash your own bedding is the no 1 reason I cite for not traveling in a van. Lol not true there are actually so many more reasons not to sleeping in a van.
That is why I have a camper. Plus, at the hotels I can afford, a blacklist would traumatize you
I’ve been staying in hotels for 100+ nights a year for the past 30 years. No bedbug issues. But I am not staying in roach motels…
I second this^^
I also travel a lot for work and never seen bedbugs in my hotel rooms.
I also agree that you shouldn’t stay in the cheapest motels you can find.
Definitely must suck if you do bring them home. The little buggers are hard to kill.
Amusingly, I just saw a report that the building outside DC that houses the department responsible for insect pest control for the US has a MASSIVE bedbug infestation that they have been unable to cure. Of course a big chunk of the staff was purged by Musk and his merry band of idiots last year. How ironic is that?
https://www.notus.org/policy/usda-bed-bugs-infestation
Room service.
Counterpoint: Doordash.
I’m not crying because of a wonderful dog story. I swear, my ford chainsaw must’ve gotten sawdust in my eyes.
Hoser68 needs to stop cutting onions near me
I’ve been known to cut a lot more than onions. See my last COTD.
You’re a good man (with a great wife), even if you cut one now and again.
That was such a great story.
When I was a kid, I wanted so badly for my parents to buy some sort of camper or RV, because it looked like a lot of fun. My mom had a reason for saying no that I absolutely could not argue with: “I don’t go on vacation so I can take a second house with me that I have to clean.” Fair enough.
Then I became an adult, and after having a girlfriend with an RV and having exactly as much fun with it as I expected, then later having my own travel trailer, I came up with a rebuttal for my mom thirty years too late: “Well, guess what? Unlike any hotel room in the world, I know for certain the last time the sheets were changed and the last time the toilet was cleaned, and how well.” She laughed and said that was certainly a factor she had not considered when I was a kid. She said she was glad it took me thirty years to come up with that come back, because otherwise, being a typically motherly clean-freak, she might have had to give serious thought to getting a camper. LOL
That rescue doggie story is beautiful.
I really need someone to stop chopping onions….