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Captains’ Blog
It was another warm (74 degrees) relaxing day lounging and hiking the Everglades. We headed out to Walmart to pick up some food and two batteries for the coach. Sounded easy doesn’t – no stress here right – wrong!!!!
We went to the gas station adjacent to Walmart to fill up the Jeep. It has the cheapest gas in town so there were multitudes of people at the pumps using no rational reasoning when entering or exiting the gas bays. We finally got to a pump that happened to pump the gas at a slower then slow rate. The guy behind us was glaring at Ron as if he was deliberately causing the delay. Finally the Jeep was full and we put our lives in jeopardy crossing the street to the car wash.
The car wash was offering a $3.00 special and since we didn’t need anymore then a basic wash we purchased the special. I was responsible for closing the sunroof and putting up the windows. All went well for about two minutes. While in the washing bay the interior of the car was being flooded through the sunroof that OOPHS! Was not closed all the way.
After exiting the car wash we pulled into the Walmart parking lot to dry out the interior of our car. Ron was careful to pick a spot with no one close by. That didn’t work out well. We had the doors open while drying out the interior of the car and some woman with her son drove into the space directly adjacent to where Ron was standing honking her horn both giving us dirty looks. Not a friendly bunch of people today. Understand we were not blocking traffic and were well out of the path of any other cars or so we thought. There were hundreds of empty spaces but she chose to nearly run Ron over and then look at us as if we did something wrong. Not a great experience so far.
After drying out the inside of the car we dared to venture into Walmart. We picked up the groceries that we needed and proceeded to the battery section of the store. Needless to say there was every battery in stock except the one we needed. I guess everyone was looking to replace his or her boat and coach batteries.
We got to the checkout and more stress. Our credit card was not accepted three times. Now we had used the card at the gas station and car wash and, oh yes, Ron double paid the credit card company so we have a substantial credit owed to us by this same company. What oh what was wrong!!! The clerk looked at us like we were losers and the lady behind us was getting impatient. Ron pulled out another credit card we rarely use and we were off with our stuff.
We called the credit card company to ask why we were denied access and they wanted to verify our last purchase or $3.00. I’m not sure why the purchase at the car wash raised a red flag but it did. Anyway everything is fine and I guess we should be happy that they are paying attention. Did I mention we called from the parking lot because we have no cell phone signal at the campground ?
We decided we had enough fun for the day and headed back to the campground for sunshine and dinner.
After dinner we decided to wash the windows on the car and motor home. Ron noticed something unusual about the car. Only the left side of the car was clean. The right side of the car looked like there had been no contact with water or soap. We forgot to read the fine print – only half a wash for $3.00.
It was another warm (74 degrees) relaxing day lounging and hiking the Everglades. We headed out to Walmart to pick up some food and two batteries for the coach. Sounded easy doesn’t – no stress here right – wrong!!!!
We went to the gas station adjacent to Walmart to fill up the Jeep. It has the cheapest gas in town so there were multitudes of people at the pumps using no rational reasoning when entering or exiting the gas bays. We finally got to a pump that happened to pump the gas at a slower then slow rate. The guy behind us was glaring at Ron as if he was deliberately causing the delay. Finally the Jeep was full and we put our lives in jeopardy crossing the street to the car wash.
The car wash was offering a $3.00 special and since we didn’t need anymore then a basic wash we purchased the special. I was responsible for closing the sunroof and putting up the windows. All went well for about two minutes. While in the washing bay the interior of the car was being flooded through the sunroof that OOPHS! Was not closed all the way.
After exiting the car wash we pulled into the Walmart parking lot to dry out the interior of our car. Ron was careful to pick a spot with no one close by. That didn’t work out well. We had the doors open while drying out the interior of the car and some woman with her son drove into the space directly adjacent to where Ron was standing honking her horn both giving us dirty looks. Not a friendly bunch of people today. Understand we were not blocking traffic and were well out of the path of any other cars or so we thought. There were hundreds of empty spaces but she chose to nearly run Ron over and then look at us as if we did something wrong. Not a great experience so far.
After drying out the inside of the car we dared to venture into Walmart. We picked up the groceries that we needed and proceeded to the battery section of the store. Needless to say there was every battery in stock except the one we needed. I guess everyone was looking to replace his or her boat and coach batteries.
We got to the checkout and more stress. Our credit card was not accepted three times. Now we had used the card at the gas station and car wash and, oh yes, Ron double paid the credit card company so we have a substantial credit owed to us by this same company. What oh what was wrong!!! The clerk looked at us like we were losers and the lady behind us was getting impatient. Ron pulled out another credit card we rarely use and we were off with our stuff.
We called the credit card company to ask why we were denied access and they wanted to verify our last purchase or $3.00. I’m not sure why the purchase at the car wash raised a red flag but it did. Anyway everything is fine and I guess we should be happy that they are paying attention. Did I mention we called from the parking lot because we have no cell phone signal at the campground ?
We decided we had enough fun for the day and headed back to the campground for sunshine and dinner.
After dinner we decided to wash the windows on the car and motor home. Ron noticed something unusual about the car. Only the left side of the car was clean. The right side of the car looked like there had been no contact with water or soap. We forgot to read the fine print – only half a wash for $3.00.
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