Sunday I drove the box truck to Sperry, or more specifically a store in the middle of nowhere. I guess they had weather up here Saturday morning because just a mile from the store there was a trampoline that landed against a fence a quarter mile from the nearest house.
The crew got the rest stop set up and went inside the store for breakfast. Even with the extra grease, the breakfast sammiches at Riegel’s are worth it. The weather was unusually cool and things were going great. The largest group of riders passed us going eastbound, but had not returned on their southbound leg when I got to learn about aerobic septic systems. It seems the rain filled the septic tanks and triggered the automatic sprayers and the spraying sewage right behind the portapotties and the Water Monster, and not far from the rest of the rest stop. The smell was about enough to gag a maggot.
Unlike the anaerobic septic systems most rural people are used to that just flood sewage in a puddle, aerobic septic systems spread it far and wide. Fortunately it only sprayed for about fifteen minutes and the odor died off quickly. Most of the time systems are set to go off on a timer in the middle of the night, but they can go off if the tanks are full.
Everything else went normally and I went back to Tulsa, fueled the truck and turned it in. I couldn’t take my normal route to the freeway and when I had to use another on ramp, I got on US 75 instead of US 169 and went through Bartlesville to get home. I went to bet quickly and got back to work that night. Fortunately it was only a two day work week before the weekend.
Footyfried 