My rig has two closets: the big one at the foot of my bed, and a narrow one in the bathroom, perfect for guests. The rail of the smaller one is the kind you find in hotels, with inverted triangular holes for the hangers. LL used it on our Quebec trip. She had hung at most (and really, I mean at most) 5 items on the rail. On day two of the trip, she opened the closet to find the rail (not just the hangers, the entire rail) had fallen out of the top of the closet. Some engineering genius had thought that two 2” screws, sans anchors, screwed into the ceiling (therefore vertically supporting the rail) would be the strongest way to affix a clothes railing in a moving closet.
So when I had the RV in for generator repair, I told Terry I also wanted a bunch of minor repairs done (squeaky window, stuck door latch, fallen railing, etc..) When I got to Heidi’s, I went looking for the clothes railing. I looked in the long storage space under the bumper, in the bottom of my big closets, in the deep drawers under the benches – nothing. Where on earth would I have stored it? I never did find it, so Terry wasn’t able to replace it.
I got the rig home and – oh, remember when I mentioned it was a ‘narrow closet’? – well, guess what I found lying in the key dish on the table? The 6” railing. Six inch railing. I had had it in my head that because I was looking for a clothes railing, I was looking for a long pole, having completely forgotten that the closet is a maximum of 6” wide, and the ‘clothes railing’ could fit in the palm of my hand. Sigh.
(If you squint real hard – you’ll see it in the ziploc baggy.)