A couple years ago on our last camping trip of the season, we had a surprise visitor. It had only been about 3 weeks since out last trip so a lot of stuff was still in the pop up – I had washed the bedding and towels and put it all back out there. After I got everything loaded, I pulled the pillow top down on the floor and started shutting up the camper. When we got to the campground, we set up with no problem and I went inside to put the beds up. I picked up the pillow top so I could get to the smaller bed and something fell off it. It was a BAT!! I yelled for John, but he wasn’t going near it (bats aren’t his thing). I carefully pushed it out with my foot (I think it was pretty startled to be so disturbed during the day). It flopped out the door and crawled under the camper (I was afraid that it was going to roost under the beds and then end up back in the camper when we closed up – so far I haven’t seen it). We then took the pillow top out and shook it off (I handed the end with the spider on it to John – spiders aren’t my thing). There were no more surprises in it. Whew! I was too surprised to even think about getting my camera!
So, how did it get in there? I have no idea. I’m pretty sure it rode under the pillow top the whole way to the campground (there was a ummm, bat stain on the pillow top which we lysol’d really good!!), but how did it end up under it? Maybe we left the door up too long last time we unloaded? Maybe it rode in on the beds when we pushed them in?
What’s the strangest thing that’s ever ended up in your pop up?
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