Walkers

naturist wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:
Next time pick a site where people have no reason to cut through.

Best answer.

There shouldn't be one, but there will always be "a reason"..

The table answer is a better answer!..:W

Add a few chairs and other obstacles..:B

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I'd invite them to happy hour so I could get to know them better. But I bet you already tried that.....as social as you are!

JayGee wrote:
Just start asking them personal questions every time they go through. How old are you? What did you have for breakfast? Is your camper paid for? Would you like to buy some life insurance? Hey got a minute to help me wax my camper?

Or, just set out a row of chairs or tables that they must move every time they go through.

^ This ^

Definitely my favorite suggestion!

I'm guessing since it was Watkins glen the problem was you were dealing with people who don't normally camp or understand campground etiquette. I see this phenomenon on holiday weekends all the time. I generally am pretty patient but when they get to the point of getting under my awning or touching my stuff, I take issue and will say something. Usually my first move is to rearrange camp to block the path a bit.

That said, I really like the crime scene tape, chalk outline idea. My rd would love to outline one of us. What fun She would have doing that.

I guess I am old school, I tell them to walk around my campsite. Only happened half a dozen times over the years. One time a dad came by and did not appreciate me telling little Johnny to walk around. I explained it to dad, dad did not want to press the issue. Man up.
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I am very picky about my stuff (truck, camper and boat) and I do not want a bunch of people and kids going through my site in between all of it and they hear about it pretty quick. The kids are young so it's not going to hurt them one bit to take the long way around and the Adults probably need the exercise anyway. Also with the prop on the boat often exposed to a trip or fall and with treble hooks on fishing poles laying around, it's not a site people that don't pay attention to what they are doing need to be on.

I am a very friendly person and will strike up a conversation with anyone and welcome company if they want to shoot the bull or ask questions but I become very unfriendly when people think because that it is a public place they can use my campsite as a super highway.

I can be very noisy and annoying just before daylight getting ready to head out to fish if I have neighbors that annoy me. I like to let my Cummins with pipe warm up a good 15-20 minutes before I make the long trip to the ramp.:R

I can understand it in a campground but when it's your own yard you really got to take offense. We live next to a city park that is popular with tourist and locals for it's waterfall that cascade from under the bluff that feeds the creek that goes through our yard. Some people assume that the entire creek is part of the park even though they have to pass a sign that says Private Property and walk by the front of the house while I am standing on my porch watching them. I even had a group of guys jogging by on the main road veer up my driveway and drink out of the creek. I hesitated to say anything hoping they all would get a case of Giardia for blatantly trespassing on my property. I have even had people ask to use the bathroom. No, please go down to the quick trip

We ALWAYS pick our dog's poop up; it is just a matter of when. We were once parked in a state park that was in direct line to the restrooms. Never mind that a pathway was 20 feet away. We normally do not park in that type of site, but it was all we could get.

Every morning my wife would let our two retired racing Greyhounds, out on short leads, attached to the camper. She could do this without going outside, as the leads were on a hook right next to the door.

After she did that, she would finish dressing, which takes her about 5 minutes. (I know that is hard to believe, but she does not use makeup at all.) She then goes outside with the dogs and cleans up.

This particular morning, she let the dogs out and before she could get back outside, a guy, walked through our site, moved a chair and walked UNDER our awning. Right past the awning, there was a pile of poop just waiting. You guessed it, he stepped in it!!! He had the audacity to complain to the rangers!

A ranger stopped by and I apologized but had to show him the location and how the man stepped in it. He said with a laugh: “You still must pick up after your dog.” I assured him that we would, but it was a matter of timing.

I still think this was justice, and hope that self-important little man learned a lesson. He did not cut through our site for the rest of the weekend however.

Put a couple buckets out with a slot in the top with a sign that says "donate to cross the space I have paid for" all others walk around!

Part of it is younger generations not being taught respect of other property. As for the older folks cutting through, these are the ones that did not teach their children any different from what they did.

I just ask them which space they rented....I rented this one and it did not include the use of other than me and my wife. So if you intend to use my rental property, we can ask the office about a sub-lease.

Ken