Stalemate

The fact that we have to leave here so early in the AM to go work the spring training games and the RV dealership personnel are involved in meetings in the AM, it is almost impossible to communicate with them regarding our repairs situation. This will be the sixth day that we have been parked in their lot outside of the service department without any work being done on our rig. Our holding tanks are beginning to become an issue as they are filling with waste and gray water, and there is no sewer hookup or portable waste disposal capability. We already had to place our trash in the container outside the store which is the only visible disposal in the entire area. This experience has been a complete nightmare and find it difficult to believe that any service business can so completely ignore the comfort of their customers. When I went into the office before departing yesterday AM, the information I received was that they are still awaiting pricing information on our hydraulic pump which is just plain hogwash. They could have gotten a price from Lippert Components - the manufacturer of our hydraulic system - on the very day we arrived and discovered the problem. It's not like this is the first time they had to fix this kind of problem.

It appears that we will not get any satisfaction - or even an opportunity to review options - before Monday. Our games today and tomorrow will require our being gone all day on both days. We certainly made a huge mistake in scheduling this appointment before the end of the games, but we wanted to leave enough time in April to prepare our site and our fifth wheel for our trip back to Jackson in May. It was an even bigger mistake assuming that this would be a short and effective experience in repairing the problems. In the meantime, we will still remain their prisoners until they break the stalemate.

Yesterday's game between the Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers was won by the Rangers, 7-5, and was an otherwise ho-hum game with 7345 fans in attendance. The rest of the way should be interesting as the Aramark staff will be trying to use up as much of their inventory as possible before the end of the season. That means we will be running out of certain items and shrinking our inventories. By the time we have our last game on Wednesday, we may be down to just dogs and sodas. There are only three games remaining for us - today, tomorrow and Wednesday...