Catching up on news around the Trailerhood.

“Johnny Reb” named for his Flag, and rebel attitude, was relegated to the back street with his flag and camper some time ago. You may remember him from several posts. Suddenly they drag his camper back up to the front lot again. By dragging, I mean that literally. It has 2 axles under it. Of the 4 wheels, two of them were flat on one side. Nothing but rims mostly. It gouged a track the entire way. It has sat there for 2 months now, empty. There was rumor, he was going to allow some girl to use it. Perhaps that romance fell through. Johnny Reb, is not a people person. However, he did win the Trailer Park Award in 2017. He missed nomination last year.

I thought I had seen the depths of true cheapskates. That was before moving here. This past weekend, the former maintenance man was out back cleaning the septic tank once again. The new manager/owner was calling around checking to see if anyone was using too much water, causing the tank to overfill. There was water coming up in a lady’s yard near the septic tank location.

Too much book-learning.

A great old man once told me, there are those in this world that have more book-learning, than common sense. That, would be our fearless leader. Water seeping up through the ground, that has no odor, is not (in my experience) from a septic tank. Especially, when there has been a water-main leak in that same area (within 10 feet) 4 months ago, that was supposedly fixed. I’ll leave you with this replay of the maintenance man making his $60 on the side, by cleaning it out with a shovel. The video is from 2 years ago, but you get the picture. No pun intended.

Septic Tank Maintenance, Southern Style

Now I must go, and try to recover from the camping trip this weekend. I have mental images, that I wish could be unseen, but they are forever burned into my Psyche.

Comments welcome,