Dan's Bored - Part Two

Saturday morning dawned bright and hot, as is normal in mid September in South Central Florida.  I thought that maybe, just maybe Dan would be happy with our little adventure from yesterday (if you missed it read the blog from a couple of days ago).  When I got up, poured my cup of coffee and walked out to sit by the pool - our usual routine for the weekend.  I take a look at Dan and I see, by that look, I am still in trouble.

Me: "So, what's up?"
Dan: "What do you mean?"
Me: "I know that look - what's up?"
Dan: "You want to ride up to Kississime?"
Me: "Why?" (as if I don't know, but I want him to spell it out!)
Dan: "I want to go look at the camper."
Me: "What camper?"
Dan: "You know what camper."

Well, of course I knew what camper he was talking about.  We had looked at these campers on line since May, but just hadn't been able to find the right one at the right price.  Well, the RV dealership (a Camper World) had a used one and had dropped the price from about $20K to $16,900.  Well, I'm not stupid and I know that when Dan get it in his head that he wants to at something I just better hold on and see where he leads me (remember I told you that it sometimes costs us money!)

Anyway, we load up in the truck and head up to Kississime to the dealership - as we are getting close Dan decides that we are going to "play dumb" and not tell the salesman that we are looking at this particular unit and see what he shows us - I tell him that I am keeping my mouth shut and letting him "do his thing".  When we get to the dealership the unit that we want was actually sitting right up front and we go over to it and look.  It is in pretty decent shape - there are some things  that I am not real happy with - but nothing that would be a deal breaker IF the price was right (stained carpet, a tear on one of the seat supports, no TV, no bed linens).

Finally a salesman shows up and Dan plays his little game.  We look at several different units, but always go "back" to the unit that we went up there to see.  I just keep my mouth shut.  At some point, I don't remember exactly when, Dan comes clean - and tells him what unit we want, that we have been full time RVer's, and we know what we are doing (yeah, right on that one).  We go into the sales office - Dan tells the poor guy (who is new to RV sales) that he doesn't want to "Play the game" - he is going to make an offer and that's going to be it.  Now, Dan actually makes an offer (I told you that this is going to cost me money), but the offer includes tax, tag, and title - in other words - out the door- and it's less that the "sale price".  The salesman goes to his boss - who comes back with a price that is above what Dan has offered.  Dan says "I told you I don't play games - this is my offer, and that's it.  Thanks for your time."  We get up and walk out.

Now, I have been holding my breath the entire time.  We actually get in the truck and come back home with NO RV.  Does that mean Dan is not bored anymore?  Of course not, but maybe, just maybe it will be kept in check for a little while.  I'll keep you posted.

I am working on some ideas that might bring in some additional income - so just say a little prayer that if this is what the good Lord wants me to do this it will work out.  Take care and I'll talk to you soon.

Dan's Bored

I don't know about the rest of you, but when Dan gets bored it usually means work for me, or it costs us money.  That is just the way it works in our house.  So, last week, when he looked at me and said those two dreaded words "I'm bored" I knew that I was in trouble.

Me -  "What do you want to do?" 
Dan - "I dunno."
Me -  "Do you want to go for a ride?"
Dan - "I dunno."

Now, we could go on and on like this for hours unless I actually come up with "something" to do.  So, on Friday I actually had an idea that might not cost me too much money.

Me - " Do you want to go see if we can find some garage sales?"
Dan - "Okay."

So, we pour a cup of coffee to go, load up in the truck, and head out.  Now, for the first time since we have been in Lake Placid there were NO garage sales in our neighborhood - nada, zip, none.  Dan decides that we will go look in a different neighborhood - Lake June West - which is a little more upscale place than ours.  Well, there must be something in the air because there are not any garage sales that we can find in all of Lake Placid. 

Now, I'm thinking - What am I going to do now? when Dan decides that he wants to ride down to Lake June in Winter Scrub State Park, since we were pretty close to the park and I had never been there, but that had been one of his jobs when we worked at Highland Hammock State Park almost two years ago.  Well, to tell you the truth, there really wasn't a whole lot there - but it did give us somewhere to go for a little while.

When we came out of the park Dan stopped to look at the map because he decided that he wanted to go look around Lake Francis.  We know someone who lives on Lake Francis and Dan was determined to find their house.  Anyway, we are just sitting at the end of the road at the park entrance - on the left is an open field.  We had been looking down at a map trying to figure out how to get to the north side of Lake Francis when I look up and say "Deer!"  There in the open field is a beautiful doe - she seems a bit skittish but then she starts to feed when she determines that we aren't out to harm her.  When all of a sudden I look over toward the orange grove and there is an eight point buck!  He is GORGEOUS!!!!!  Well, the doe takes off running for the hills and the buck takes off after her.  What a show!  I guess that was worth going out on a ride around Lake Placid.  Oh, we did find our way to the north side of Lake Francis and we did find the house we were looking for.

After spending about 3 hours riding around Dan decided that he was ready to go home, but I could still see that "bored" look in his eyes.  That leads me to the Saturday adventure- but I will leave that till tomorrow - check back in and see what Dan has gotten us into now!