Crazy Crazy Crazy

Throughout my 3 years of working at a campground I have come across some very interesting characters, but none more interesting than this one guy. Let’s call him D. The guy was unstable and had to take medication to keep his anger and emotions straight. He was staying at the campground for just over a month so this gave plenty of time for many events to occur.

Here is an example of one of our encounters:

This is actually somewhat what he looked like, minus the glasses.

*I am sitting in my office and D enters with a little kitten*

Epop: Hey D what’s this?

D: Oh, I was visiting one of my friends and they gave me this cat.

Epop: Oh nice, are you going to keep it?

D: Yeah, I’ll keep it in my trailer here. I bought this organic meat from this store out of town.

Epop: Oh awesome.

*The kitten is now attached to D’s sweater with its claws and is just hanging there*

D: Yeah, *picks up the kitten* he seems a little light I need to toughen him up.

*He puts the kitten down on my desk and it starts walking on my keyboard*

D: HA HA HA

Epop: LOLZ it is quite cute.

D: Oh yeah. I taught him to walk on a leash and he was trying to kill bugs by the river.

Epop:  Nice Nice.

D: Yeah and all the ladies in town seem to like him too hehe.

Epop: haha that’s always good.

*The kitten is now chewing on the cord for my computer mouse* (haha cat chewing on mouse)

D: Yeah so I have to go into town for a bit. Do you want to look after him for a few hours in your office here?

*at this point I was worried that he wouldn’t come back to get it*

Epop: Um… I’m not going to be in my office the whole time so you should probably take it.

D: Oh, it’ll be fine don’t worry.

*I think*      *I start to get up and move towards the door*

Epop: I have to actually go to the ballparks around town to do some maintenance right now.

D: Oh, okay. I’ll talk to you later then.

Epop: K, cya.

*D did not show up the next day and I found this unusual as he usually visited daily. He showed up again the day after that, kittenless. *

Epop: Hey where did you go yesterday and what happened to your cat?

*D says in the calmest monotone voice*

D: Oh I got arrested and had to spend the night in jail.

Epop: What the heck? Seriously? What happened?

OM NOM NOM

D: I decided to bring the kitten to A&W with me and we were hanging out there when my friend L called and said that she was omitted into the hospital. So I left the kitten on a shelf by the exit with some of my hamburger I had left over and biked over to the hospital. Afterwards when L was set up in the hospital I biked back to A&W to pick up the cat. However, when I got there my kitten was gone. *He is still speaking in the most monotone calm voice* So I went up to the counter and started yelling at the kids. I was like “WHERE THE FUCK IS MY CAT! WHO THE FUCK TOOK IT!” and I kicked the counter as hard as I could and slammed my hands down on it and was like “TELL ME RIGHT NOW WHICH ONE OF YOU GUYS STOLE MY CAT!” and I started to go behind the counter. Well then for some reason the kids went behind in the cooking area and locked the door and I guess one of those fucking kids phoned the cops. Then they came and arrested me and said I had to spend the night there. I mean who the hell phones the police for something like that?

Epop: haha…yeahhh…that’s weird.

Yeah, that guy was crazy. I guess he also didn’t know that cats have the ability to move on their own and even walk to travel places.

During his time staying with me there he was arrested on three different occasions and harassed many people. Each person I let into the campground I was just hoping he would not get into a fight with them. I am a pretty easy going person and very rarely do I come across a person who I rub the wrong way and I was just glad I was able to make friends with him and believe me, the day when my supervisor had to come down with the papers to evict him from the campground was one of the scariest days of my life. I thought it would absolutely flip the hell out. It turned out alright though. He even came by my office one week after he was evicted and asked if he could stay in the campground again. I had to try pretty hard to restrain myself from laughing hysterically. After I said he couldn’t he even phoned my supervisor who evicted him and asked. I swear some people do not live in the same world.

I hope this summer will yield a less eventful crowd than last. Although a few crazies once and a while do produce some much needed entertainment. I’ll just have to wait and see.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bye