Since I am trapped here for the foreseeable future, I may as well research, and find some stories to add to this certainly to-become-a-book, experience.

As some of you have read, The Troll (owner) retired from upkeep of the trailer park. Those not familiar with him, search for Troll here on the blog. His Son (a college professor) has taken over management of the park, along with a long time resident as an on-site manager. You’ve probably heard it said, that most people that are incompetent to run things, generally wind up in a management position. Perhaps a cruel joke of Karma. The son, is a college professor, which explains the title of this entry.

I’m not responsible

His first official action, was to meet with everyone, two trailers at the time, and request that we purchase one box per bathroom, of septic tank treatment. $5 a box. I have three bathrooms, so that was basically imposing a $15 a month hike in lot fee to maintain his septic system. I’m not responsible for his Septic system, other than not abusing it with chemicals that might degrade its service. Perhaps he was trying to avoid the sick maintenance his father always did. Too cheap to hire a septic service, he had the park flunky clean it out manually with a shovel, as seen in the 2016 post of “A Hard Day” is relative.

The second official act, was he appeared at the door with his assistant park manager, and inquired as to how many dogs did we own. When he asked if we knew which ones we would be willing to part with, Michelle started turning red, and foaming at the mouth with rage. I managed to calm her down, and keep him from being mangled. When they left, they understood our pets, were our children and not going anywhere.

Attempted to evict them, 3 times.

During one of our walks recently, we finally had the opportunity to talk with the nice quiet older couple on the corner. Turns out, they were celebrating a victory. For the last three years, the owner (Troll) of the park, had attempted to evict them 3 times. Their yard had always been pretty and well maintained. Once, it was because they parked their vehicle backed into their lot, with a busted side window. It looked “Trashy” according to Troll. We found out, that three attempts had been made, because they were Pagan. Troll being a big church member, simply can’t have Pagans living in his park! How horrible!

The judge asked if he was kidding

I nearly fell over laughing when the lady told us how the recent court appearance went. It seems the prior two times, the eviction was based on flimsy reasons. This time however, the wife remarked to the judge, that the owner just wanted them out, since he learned three years ago, that they were Pagan. Now here’s the knee slapper. Judge looks at the park owners son who is representing the park, and asks “is this true”? The highly educated professor son replies, “That was my father”. At which point the judge asked if he was kidding. Professor stays quiet, the judge asks then why was he even there. The judge remarked that the park is owned by the same family, who apparently doesn’t care for other religious beliefs. He threw the eviction case out, and told the son that he did not wish to see him back trying to evict the couple.

How dumb can an educated person be, to go and continue an eviction based on religion, in this day and age. He actually stood there, and admitted in court to the judges question, that his father was trying to evict them, on religious grounds. That, ladies and gentleman, is a true lack of common sense, but a good outcome for justice.

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