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Tick It Before You Kick It
Showering with Spiders - Oo la la!
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🤔Ever wonder what it's like to live full-time in an RV and face the unexpected? Join me, Alexandra, and my hilarious mother as we recount our latest misadventure in Buena Vista, Colorado.
💭Imagine navigating a ghost-town RV park, complete with deserted RVs and wild conspiracy theories.
🕷️On top of that, my mom shares her epic battle with a terrifying spider, proving that laughter truly is the best way to handle life's little horrors.
🚿From the not-so-glamorous side of RV life, like draining toilets and dealing with dilapidated laundry facilities, to the tough decisions between showering or drying clothes with limited coins, this episode is packed with humor and raw reality.
👂Listen in as we bring you the unfiltered truth about our "upper class trailer trash" lifestyle.
Don't miss out on this entertaining and eye-opening travel tale that promises to make you laugh and appreciate the comforts of home! 🏠
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I love killing them because then they don't bother me, so because they could come back for revenge.
Alexandra:Hey there, adventurers. This is Alexandra with Ticket, before you Kick it the podcast where we talk about everything that you should add to your adventure bucket list and some hilarious travel stories. This episode is going to be one of those hilarious travel stories. I am actually here with my mother, who does this crazy RV adventure with me. So, if you don't know, we live full time in an RV and it's a massive fifth wheel. So we are here today in Buena Vista, colorado, at this tiny little resort. So I'm going to hand this over to my mom, who just came barreling into the RV screaming I don't think that I will ever recover from this. Go for it.
Alexandra:All right, so a little backstory. I don't like spiders. I can do anything, I could hold a human brain in my hand, but I don't like spiders. I especially don't like spiders that are big enough where, if you squish them, they make a noise. I don't like that either. No, yeah. I'm done, yeah, so anyway, I expect spiders. We're in an RV. I expect them on the walls and the floor and outside, whatever.
Alexandra:We actually hate killing them so much that I invested in this little stick thing where I can just pick them up from very far away and then release them back into the wild, because I don't like killing them.
Alexandra:I love killing them because then they don't bother me, so because they could come back for revenge. So, anyway, we are at this ghost town of an RV park that we've only seen one person.
Alexandra:And that was when we checked in and we have not seen anyone else. I actually think that the broken down RVs that are here, that have no cars, no lights and no sign of life, have dead bodies in them because the people don't want to call the police and I think they want people on the highway to see that there's other people staying here.
Alexandra:This is conspiracy theories with the RVers here. Yes.
Alexandra:And I think the office is only open, like Monday, from 1 to 2. So, anyway, we are byers here. Yes, and I think the office is only open like Monday, from 1 to 2. So, anyway, we are by ourselves here.
Pam:I did see someone when we did check in and he was very nice. He was very nice, you know, but we also have seen a brown dog running around.
Pam:Okay, he probably belongs to one of the dead people that are in the RVs. Anyway. So I decide that, after a fun couple hours of cleaning out the toilets and draining, poo Again.
Pam:the fun parts about owning an RV that you do not hear about because RVing is very glamorized, and this is the parts that are not so glamorous once you get there, we are upper class trailer trash. That's it, upper class trailer trash here.
Pam:So anyway, I decide that I need a shower and we need to do laundry. So I head over to the first set of facilities which are just falling down. I mean, the whole thing is being held up by two, by fours, but I think I could probably make it. You know why not? None of it works. No hot water, no water, nothing works. So it says you can use the one by the office. So I go to the one by the office and I've already used all my change on the laundry machine because it's not one of those you can stay in with your phone because I'm spoiled. You actually have put coins in it. So I put my coins in, I start the washer who knows what color anything's going to come out.
Pam:It's fine All of our clothes are going to be pink, absolutely With you know, water that's coming out of whatever.
Pam:So I decide I'm going to go shower. I have precious coins left. I have to decide because the shower takes coins. So I have to decide if I want to dry my clothes or if I want to wash myself. I decide for the wash myself. And so I look at my meager coin collection and decide that I only have a couple minutes.
Pam:So I jump in this shower. That, again, is not made for big girls like me. I can't even turn around in it. So anyway, and I am mapping out in my head how I'm going to accomplish this in a couple minutes, you know like, wash something, rinse it right away, cause I don't want to get caught. And so my eyes are closed. I am nailing this shower. I'm just, you know, wash one, wash another. And then I opened my eyes to actually find the shampoo and there are three large black spiders in the shower with me. Oh my gosh. So I just run out of there screaming like a six-year-old girl, half soapy, and I don't care who sees me naked. There's spiders all over you. Yes, if they would have touched me I would have died, but I did. I really even considered leaving my shampoo because I didn't want to go back in and, you know, retrieve my belongings, which the spiders have now claimed.
Pam:They belong to the spiders now.
Alexandra:Yes, they are now the spiders, so they can be really clean. So there you go, I am half clean and I feel good.
Alexandra:She comes in, like half of her leg is still covered in soap, and then also she missed the point where she needed to find some quarters. So she decided to look through the truck that pulls the fifth wheel. But I'm in here alone and I haven't seen a single soul in so long. So I see the truck lights go on and I look and I make sure that our other car is gone, because I'm like, oh, she's showering and doing laundry and that car's gone. So I just think, oh my gosh, someone's stealing the truck. So I run out there, yeah, just screaming, and I'm like, don't steal my truck, and it's her. So you know, digging for change, digging for change to go take a shower with some spiders.
Pam:That's my story.
Alexandra:So for all of you who are thinking about RVing full time, about going on this epic adventure, just think that these are your stories and it is just us here. You know, we're just women and I don't want to go into that stereotype where we can't kill spiders. But I don't like it and it was the one time since we've started this journey where I have missed having a male presence so that he could kill the spiders for us.
Pam:So now in my shower kit I'm going to have to include Raid shampoo, conditioner and bug spray and an axe.
Alexandra:And a flamethrower, and a flamethrower. And some gasoline To get these spiders and a flamethrower and a flamethrower and some gasoline To get these spiders. So what do you guys think? If you were in this situation and had to take a shower with some spiders in a very, very small space, would you be okay with it? Would you not be okay with it? Don't forget to let me know and, as always, don't forget to check out my full website, thebucketlessmermaidcom, or follow me on socials at.