Saturday, October 4, 2008

Trucks, Batteries and Toilets

It has not been a real pleasant day today. I mentioned this morning that we had to replace both batteries in the truck yesterday. So, this morning the toilet plugs and David can't get it unplugged so we were going into town to get a plunger. The truck started great and we were on our way. About a mile down the road we noticed that the air conditioning was not working. Of course we didn't know why. So, on our way to get the plunger, we stopped at the GMC dealership to see why. Well, $160 and an hour later we found out that if you take both batteries out it erases the computer thingies and it has to be reprogrammed.
We get back to the 5th wheel so David can work on the toilet and it would not unplug. I think he worked on it for 2 hours until finally he went down and banged on the pipes and it unplugged. Now this was after backflushing, using the plunger, having Steve backflush while he used a plunger and getting crap all over the bathroom. It was not a pretty picture. So I donned rubber gloves and went in. Yuck, what a smelly mess. Anyway, I got it cleaned up and now I'm just waiting for everything to dry. I have 2 fans going so hopefully it will be OK. David thinks that when we bought the 5th wheel no one had gone in and really cleaned the tank out so what makes it even worse, it could have been someone else's crap. So while ending this post, I cannot say it has been another day in paradise.

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