Captain’s Blog
Monday, Day 20
KOA
We cannot believe that tomorrow we will have been on the road for 3 weeks and we’re only in Virginia. As I said before, we don’t usually travel this way and are generally running from campground to campground to rest area to Wal Mart parking lot running around like crazy and getting little to no rest. Well, we’ve proved to ourselves that we can lounge with the best of them and still get to see and have new experiences.
Today is day four at the KOA and it has been an interesting stay. When we arrived we booked two-nights. Should have beeen easy – NOPE! The woman at the counter named Minnie was less then friendly – more like a snapping turtle. She was very abrupt, rude and obviously didn’t want to be doing her job. She assigned us site 38, gave us directions and off we went. Well, site 38 had a camper in it, so Ronnie proceeded to site 39. I walked back to the office to let Minnie know that site 38 was occupied and was it OK to park in site 39. She didn’t believe me and proceeded to look in her computer – then again telling me site 38 was available. You could see the sites from the window in the office and when I pointed that out to her she took great offense and stated that she wouldn’t have given us site 38 if the computer didn’t indicate it was empty. I wanted to say “LOOK OUT THE WINDOW ! , but I didn’t. I asked again if we could stay in site 39 – her reply “ Well, you have to stay somewhere so it might as well be there. Uggh, I wanted to smack her for being so rude but I don’t look good in stripes and down here they put you on chain gangs. We believe that this campground has been a KOA for a very short period of time because it is still listed on the street signs as Americamp and every KOA we have stayed at had personable, helpful and knowledgeable staff.
Well after our two- day stay was completed we decided to stay for another night. Oh Joy! Ronnie went to the office to extend our stay and when he came back I asked if Minnie was there again. He said no- worse – what! - how could anyone be worse. Well, she didn’t know how to add a day to our stay, had trouble with the computer and spoke so low and mumbled that Ronnie could not understand a word she said. Understand that Ronnie is hard of hearing so I thought maybe it was him, so when we stopped at the office on our way out to check if she was able to add another day I went in with him. OMG he was so right. The woman mumbles in such a very low voice that I wasn’t sure if she was really talking or just grumbling. She finally got us entered and off we went,still not knowing what she said.
Well today is another day and we decided to spend one more night. There were two men in the office today and despite the wait for the computer to come on-line we got re-registered for another night without too much difficulty.
During our entire trip we have had great customer service with smiling faces but no way with Minnie and her friend.
Last night we had a little “event” with Jewel and only wish we had it videotaped. She was laying on the bed comfortably and I was in need of paper towels. Since we store our paper goods under the bed I didn’t want to disturb her too much so asked Ronnie to lift the bed “just a little” so I could reach in and grab what I needed without scaring the dog. Of course that didn’t happen. Ronnie picked the bed up, Jewel went rolling into the pillows, quickly scrambling up the bed and believe it or not she was holding on to the mattress edge with her two paws looking like her eyes would pop out of her head. Well, Jewel was not happy but we both laughed until our sides hurt. I’m not sure if she will forgive us but somehow I think she’ll get over it.
r0n Note:
Made a run over to the Bass Pro shop ACROSS I-95. Not as nice as the one in Foxboro, MA
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