Thursday, Mar 06, 2008 at 20:29
Hey Obee.
Look at it like this, next time you go to a van park in peak season, as I explained to my old man at Xmas.
He is a self-funded retiree he and mum worked in the public service all their lives, so didn't understand the private sector.
We stayed at a van park in
Cairns, mum and dad in a their van, Philip and I in our camper, and my sister and her 2 girls in the motel room.
Dad was saying how expensive it was because it was Xmas time and the van park charged top dollar, so I asked the owner if he had hired more staff over the Xmas period he said he had hired 4 more staff because they were busy, so I told dad this, then I told dad that the lawns were trimmed,
the pool was cleaned every day, the
toilet block was one of the cleanest I have seen, then I told him it more than likely cost the owner 15 to 20 thousand $$ extra in wages just for 6 weeks they were busy.
Dad's outlook on this changed when I pointed this out.
Cheers Steve.
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