With Fun Comes Work!

To help with the cost of traveling, we work camp. Work camping is volunteering at a private RV park, a state park, national park, or even a protected wildlife area. In exchange for hours of work, we receive a campsite, usually with full hook up.  Full hookup means we have sewer, water, and electricity. The schedule is usually for 20-30 hours of work a week split between two of us. It's nice we get to work together and the schedule is usually about 3-4 hours a day each, three days a week.

We spent the last three days performing the work part of work-camping. I never thought I’d clean a public restroom. I’ve done a lot of different jobs, but cleaning a restroom was not on my wish list. It still isn’t.

We have an artist in the park! He uses poo as his medium of choice. I wish he’d get a new hobby or a new medium and his own portable canvas. I don’t want to clean up his work again.

I’m also going to install arrows directing people towards the 32-gallon trash bin so they don’t misunderstand and think it’s necessary to leave garbage anywhere and everywhere.

We also need signs to explain that the little handle on the side of the toilet performs a very necessary and welcome task of flushing human waste away and adding clean water to the basin, thus avoiding messy, smelly, horrendous sludge from forming in the bottom of the bowl.

Another sign might explain that water comes out of the faucets and is meant to be contained in the basin under it called a sink. If a person wants to take a bath, there are showers to the left, please don’t take it at the sink or standing on the vanity. (Yes, there were shoe prints on the vanity top, looked like someone danced on it and they weren’t child-sized prints.)

Women, your monthly feminine items go in the trash cans provided, they do not go on the floor. They do not go in the toilet. Paper towel goes in the trash, not in the toilet. Toilet paper goes in the toilet and please see the previous paragraph about the little knob you push down to watch “poopoo go down the hole”. Toilet paper, especially used toilet paper, does not go in the trash cans provided for your feminine necessities. And please be kind, wrap your feminine products up in toilet paper before placing them in the trash, no one wants to see that.

Yet, another sign, showers are for bathing and getting clean. They are not for toileting. Please don’t poo in the shower, it will not go down the drain. It must be cleaned out and it smells. It gets stuck to the bottom of your feet and tracked around the bathroom when you leave and I hope, oh do I hope, it made it all the way back to your tent or camper and into your little bed or sleeping bag.

Ahhh, the next three days is a vacation. I shall return to sanity, really.