Waiting for HWH and others

Monday September 26, 2011
Winnebago
Forest City, Iowa

 

Today is Day 5 of Waiting.

Yesterday, Sunday, we went out to lunch at Scoopy Doos

 

with Dennis and Holly Ann Rogers
who will be leaving tomorrow to go on their merry way!

 

It’s a cute place with wonderful ice cream choices
including a small malt for $2.85.
More to come in future posts on that.

My lunch was so filling
that I actually skipped the ice cream.
CAN you believe that??
But I’ll obviously have plenty of time for a return trip
though Bill so don’t you worry.

 

Today, Monday,
we were up and over in the Service parking lot at 7am.
Along with a LOT of other folks.
We were there to get the second hood latch put on.
Like the part for the slide, it wasn’t in stock so
the only one Mitch could put on for us on Friday
was the one we had brought with us.
But he had ordered the part which,
unlike the slide part, did not
have to be made before it could be shipped
It would be in today we had been told
be here at 7am.

So we were expecting this to be a one or two hour deal.

 

So we went back to Sally’s

 

to try breakfast which we ate
before I thought to get a shot of it.

 

 

 

Looks like a breakfast club meets here.

 

 

Now I do have to say that Sally’s is sweet and
a real home town place and has great prices
but we have now had both the meals she offers,
breakfast and lunch.
I recommend you just go for pie.

 

We were back at Winnebago by 9:30
and waited some more. 

 

 

 

Here is what the 4 leggeds who were also waiting did.

  

 

Are you a “soda” or a “pop” drinker??
Hadn’t seen this since I moved out of the
midwest of my childhood to go away to college.

 

 

 

At 1:00, 6 hours after we had come in,
they finally decided to update us on with the fact
that the part had not come in on the first shipment.

And so we waited some more.
They close at 3:30. 

At 3:10 Mitch informed us the part finally did come in
and he’d put it on the hood but the glue wasn’t dry.
But of course they close at 3:30.

He could put the hood back on but he
didn’t advise it until the glue dried.
Of course it was raining now and is
predicted to rain today, tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night.

SO we brought Winnona back over to the parking lot
for the night and since it is raining and windy
I insisted that David put plastic over the gaping hole
in the front.

Now we sit and wait for HWH to
make the part we need for the slide
and send it to Winnebago.
The part was ordered last Thursday
we were told.   It might take a
week to make it and get it to us from
Moscow Iowa we were told.

In truth, all of our problems with Winnona
have been due to HWH parts.
Jacks and slides.
Anyone have any idea why Winnebago still
uses them as a supplier?
Is there no one else?
Do all coaches have HWH hydraulics??

Maybe tomorrow we’ll do something other than wait.
Like go eat ice cream!!