By Cheri Sicard
In the video at the bottom of this article, Robin Barrett of Creativity RV shares a tale of a dump station drama!
Robin tells of a recent experience at a free dump station in Yuma, Arizona, where some RVers had to wait three (count ’em, three!) hours because one idiot was holding up the line.
After about an hour, Robin started filming. She said RVers were coming in from all directions, and people were understandably losing their minds.
Don’t be that guy!
Robin shares the video along with important dump station do’s and don’ts so that you are NEVER the source of dump station drama!
It all started when the culprit pulled into the dump station facing the wrong way. This confused subsequent folks who got in line in other directions. Who knows what the dude was doing for so long, but after an hour, there were lines going in every direction, a big RV traffic jam, and a lot of angry people.
Supposedly, the culprit had a 60-gallon tank, and he was using a filter on the already slow water connection to fill it. Robin says this still does not account for all the time he spent monopolizing the dump station.
People yelling at him seemed to only make him slow his roll! What a JERK!
Robin timed how long it took the other people in line to dump. In my opinion, all of them are slow. I know that I can easily be in, dump, and out of a dump station in under 10 minutes. Most were done in less than 20 minutes. None were as slow as the dump station dunce who held up the line for three hours!
Robin ends the video with dump station tips to get you in and out in no time, along with alternative sources for fresh water in case that is all you need.
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RVT1262
I watched this some time ago and felt it a thinly veiled attempt to sensationalize how “RV dump station trauma” can be avoided if you have a compost toilet like she does.
Now if her target audience was those dumb enough to sit in line for three hours instead of going to one of the other dozens of dump stations in Yuma, she’s right; They probably should indeed use a compost toilet.
Me personally, I think she fabricated an exaggerated story off a guy topping off his tank for content and clicks but yeah, don’t park at the dump station to do your thousand piece jigsaw puzzle….