Sick IN Red Bay...or sick OF Red Bay??

Both Ron and I have been fighting the crud for the last 10 days .  First me then I guess I gave it to Ron.   A lot of chest congestion, achy, coughing, sneezing ...you get the picture.   We finally broke our low grade fevers and feel a little better.

Our coach went in for repairs on Monday- April 01.    We arrived at the service bay at 6:45 am and were back at our site by 10:30 pm.    They were able to get all the repairs completed including the washing machine.    The last thing I felt like doing was laundry, but I had to test out the repair before we left, so that is what I did all morning.

We have one more service that was scheduled for sometime Thursday, but we never got a call.   We walked over to the scheduler and made an inquiry.   Not the friendliest guy on earth, but I guess he has to deal with a lot of people who really don't want to be here.  We were originally number 6 on the list and as of Thursday we were number 5....huh....they only got to one coach in 3 days and they are using 4 bays for this repair????

I'm not the brightest light bulb in the box but something doesn't add up here.  I was told that once they take the cap rails off of some of the coaches and see damage to the roof they have to make further repairs which can take up to 1.5 days longer.    Still doesn't make sense to me....if you have 4 bays and 4 coaches in each bay on Tuesday and even if all 4 needed more repairs that take 1.5 days all 4 should have been finished in  3days????

It's one of those situation that if you don't squeak you may not get serviced and if you squeak too loud they get pissed and may keep moving you to the bottom of the list.    I'll send Ron over next time....he is much more diplomatic....my Italian temper flares up.

On the bright side the delay gave us time to get over our illness, gave STL time to get rid of their snow and gave us time to complete more Find-A-Grave requests.  After we responded to the first Find-A-Grave request we have now received 8 more.    Apparently this area does not have a volunteer.

Today is St. Louis Baseball Cardinals opening day with ceremonies starting late morning for a 3:10 pm game.   I'm glad we don't have tickets...boy would I really be upset if we missed it.   Instead we will probably pull up our chairs and watch the game outside...the high today is 74 degrees, mostly sunny.

Go Cards!



Hope all is well!