Blond Bimbo

A short lesson in turning on the air conditioner in the Jayco Outback. For those of you that are off Glamping in all weather conditions, I thought I would give you some invaluable information regarding the operational use of your device.

We arrived at our destination as you would imagine hot and bothered in the 35+ degree heat after driving 40 gozillion miles out of our way (see previous post on how to not use a GPS) and then setting up we had worked up a sweat. This was the first time I had used the cooling system to cool the glamper van. Our previous trips had been temperature controlled by The Husband in the cooler months. Did I really take any notice…no.

The temperature outside is hot enough to warrant the turning on of the cooling device. As per the photo attached for visual instruction I pushed the turn on button, ok so the photo doesn’t show this bit so just use your imagination. Also located on the module is an M button, ok so this is also not included in the instructional photo so once again you will need to imagine it’s there. How hard can working this thing be. The M stands for mode, I push the relevant buttons and bring up the sunshine, which is actually in the instructional photo. I don’t wish to bring any disrespect to all those other woman in the world that share my hair colour, but I feel at this point I need to point out, I’m blond. As I said I push the button, on it turns, I close all the blinds, hatches and toddle off outside to join The Husband and the Bargo Boaters.

Dam it must be hot, the air conditioner on my return is struggling to cool theGlamper van, I open the roof hatches thinking this may help change the oven like conditions. We go to bed leaving it on. I tell you what when I woke up the next morning I realised that it was obviously going to be a hot day because that poor cooling machine was still struggling, it was as hot as The Husbands temper when attempting a 57 point turn after ignoring a “you shouldn’t have driven down there sign, you idiot” I turn her off. I do say to The Husband that I don’t know how we will go Glamping in the outback in the boiling heat when the air conditioner doesn’t really cool well. He gives me a look, you know the one, it means how blond are you, where are we plugging the van into 240 volts in the middle of nowhere to run an air conditioner. I digress.

Great day spent on the water, we return, The Glamper van is hot enough to fry an egg on the floor, I turn on the trusty cooling device for another try, sunshine picture is on, yep I’ve got her going again. We eat, we bubbles, a few hours pass and the dam thing won’t work. Bloody hell I say to The Husband this thing is useless, I turn it off in disgust as I don’t feel like battling with this complex piece of machinery any longer. We spend the night with all the windows open.

Another amazing day, it’s 38 degrees and I say to The Husband that I can’t understand why this thing is not working we will have to take it back to Jayco. He decides to push the turn on button. He looks at me with that look on his face again and says “did you have it on the sunshine setting” “of course I did” what does he think I am a moron. “So you didn’t put it on the icicle setting” “well of course I didn’t it’s the sign for snow which means you use that one to heat, duh.” At this point, he I think he’s thinking I have a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock. “You must be kidding” he says in that tone of voice that makes you want to smother him in his sleep. “The icicle is for cooling, the sunshine is for heating” Oh shit I’d spent the last two days trying to bake us like roast chickens in the metal Glamper van. Needless to say I have now given The Husband ammunition. This ladies and gentlemen is not something you want to do when you spend some of your time berating your husband in a public blog.

So what have we learned from this instructional post.

1. Always read the manual first or YouTube it prior to giving The Husband enough ammunition for a month of Sunday’s.

2. If you are blond, wear your hair colour with pride because you can always use it as an excuse to get out of the dumb things you do.