NY_Dutch
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When we arrive at a new site, I do the basic leveling and running out the slide while my wife starts on the bathroom and kitchen setup. When I head outside to do the power hookup and satellite dish setup, she handles getting the computers, etc., in place and fired up. Water and waste hookups come later if needed, as do the awning, outside chairs and tables if we're staying long enough to want them. If either one of us is feeling poorly, the other one is quite capable of doing the entire setup, and I don't recall that we've ever had a cross word during the process. Even for the rare times when I ask for assistance backing in to a site, we have a well practiced set of hand signals and never need to yell anything back and forth. Maybe it comes from over 50 years of working together towards common goals, but I don't recall us ever yelling at each other except when distance or background noise required it to communicate, never in anger. Life's too short...
Every now and then, my husband and I can get a bit snippy...however, this is more so, when we arrive later toward evening after a day of driving. Generally, that type of driving will be a rarer occurrence now that we are retired, and not in the mode "of have to get there at a certain time schedule, and drive so many miles a day." We each have our set jobs at set up, and usually quietly get to work, when done have a beer and relax..it is all good.
