We all make assumptions don't we.
The boat sales here on the marina are really flying, 3 were sold on Saturday. We overheard one couple who put an offer on a boat. The have been unable to travel abroad for holiday during the pandemic so they decided to buy a boat so that in future if there is another lockdown they will have their holidays on the boat! Erm, no the boat will be classed as a second home and they will not be able to spend time on it during any subsequent lockdown.
There is a boat cleaner on the marina, she admitted that as a new boat owner she'd bought a boat with a pump out toilet, she assumed that it meant that the toilet would pump the waste straight out of the toilet into the canal. When her tank was full and the toilet would no longer flush she contacted the broker to complain that the toilet was faulty.
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Ugh! Oh my gosh! She was okay with the thought that pump toilets were flushing everyone's waste into the canal?
When we purchased our boat it was set up to empty the black water into the canal as it had been used in France. We had to get it altered once it was moved from Gloucester to Reading
I once had a narrowboat which had a portapotty for a toilet...a pumpout would have been infinitely preferable.
How disgusting to think she’d be happy to have the toilet empty into the canal....
I think people have saved money during lockdown and I guess they are now looking for something on which to spend their newfound wealth without doing too much research into it.
It would be fun to have a whole book on these "assumptions" about boat living. People do the same type of thing when they move into a gentrifying neighborhood or buy a tiny house. The new tiny house owner in the US immediately finds out there is almost no where they can park it and live in it.
I don't think it's so much that people make assumptions, well, they do, but it's all a part of the 'me myself and I' culture of today!
I am fed up to the back teeth of the selfish behaviour of some people, you've just given us two perfect examples, 'the lockdown rules don't apply to us/it's okay for me to dump my crap (literally) wherever I choose to!'
Our next door neighbours have been having visitors to their house all through the lockdowns, in fact they've had more visitors than is normal for them. The really ridiculous thing is that they're an elderly couple, both with health problems, he has to have four hours of Dialysis three times per week, so he walks into a hospital department and spends hours on end around seriously poorly people, having been mixing with all and sundry the evening before!
I was so disgusted that I phoned the Dialysis department, I didn't name him, but told them that 'a patient' of theirs was behaving in such a way. They said they would remind all their patients of the lockdown rules and make it clear that this was unacceptable behaviour. Whether he was 'reminded' or not, he has not changed his behaviour in the slightest!
Another couple who live in our close appear to have been abiding by the rules, or at least they did until last Thursday, when they went off on holiday. They even told their immediate next door neighbours (who have both been shielding) that they are fed up being stuck at home, so have gone off to a friend's cottage in the Yorkshire Dales!
I'm not going to bother reporting them, the authorities have more than enough to cope with at the moment. The neighbours are very much 'keep themselves to themselves' people when they're at home, so I can't see them rushing out and mixing with folk while they're away. It's annoying though that some people are doing as they please when we've stuck to the lockdown rules rigidly.!
We actually have a holiday booked for the beginning of June, in a cottage, with a private indoor swimming pool and a hot tub, in the grounds of a stately home, miles from civilisation, 6 miles from the nearest village. We were booked to go there last June, but postponed it, so really hope we manage to get away this time. We probably won't even leave the grounds, we just want to get away from everything for a week (it's a very expensive cottage, so a week is all we're having), there are beautiful views and lovely gardens to walk around, so, fates willing, it should be a wonderful, relaxing break! It's a privately owned stately home, which only opens to the public on a few odd days during the school summer holidays, and we'll be home again long before that!
Take care, and stay away from selfish idiots!
@ana s.
I've seen quite a few tiny house videos on youtube, and I'm always bothered by the background noise. Many of them seem to be parked next to busy roads.
I follow a couple of liveaboards on youtube. I won't say who but they've made it very clear in some of their videos that whenever you meet someone new on the cut, the topic of conversation sooner or later moves around to whatever system you have for your loo... LOL. They have a composting loo, I think its called, and they're very happy with it. Certainly preferable to what they had before. Can't remember what it was called but it involved taking a canister full of the proceeds of the toilet to a point on the canal managed by the CRT and emptying/cleaning it out. Not pleasant!
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