Just Do Not Do This….

I consider this to be a public service announcement. Last month I was camping at a campground located in Maryland where I was booked in for the week. The weather had turned cold, and the temperature was going into the 20s at night, and some days, it would warm up above freezing for a few hours of the day.

One day I went to empty our black and gray tanks, I noticed that the tanks were draining slower than normal and I noticed that the contents of the hose was a slushy mess. I had to shake the sewer hose a little to break up the slush and get its contents to drain properly.

I was busy that week through the day with my activities, and my wife was in the RV most of the time. I got back one day, and she said she could not believe what she saw happen in the campsite across from us. She said the person camping there disconnected their stinky slinky and placed it on the picnic table with the ends open. I have to assume that the contents in the hose were frozen, and it was placed on the table to thaw, and that slushy sewage turned to liquid and ran on the picnic table that people eat on! That is totally disgusting!

People, please be considerate of others! You may not be eating at that table, but others will be! The worst part is that future campers will have no idea what happened on that picnic table before they ate their dinner on it! There are common sense things that all campers should observe, and one of them is not to put items that handle sewage on the picnic tables! I think there should be a public service campaign to educate campers about creating unsanitary eating conditions in campsites.

Now, knowing what I know, what am I supposed to do when I roll into a new campsite with that picnic table that, who knows what was placed on it in the past? The best thing I can come up with is to wash the table with a bleach solution and put a tablecloth on it. That will at least sanitize the table and place a barrier between your eating utensil and the table surface.

It is my hope that this post will stop people from throwing unsanitary items on the table for the benefit of the RV community. We always need to think how we impact other campers.