Camping pet peeve

2 geocachers wrote:
When camping in public campgrounds, I think campers are forgetting that they do not own the campground, especially the site they are on. ..... I keep to the side so as not to disturb anything. .... AND PS Our last camping trip, my husband had injured his knee and was using a cane. There was no way I wanted him walking all the way around the outskirts of the whole campground with a bum leg just to get to the bathroom. So we walked through your rented site.

I was just about to post again when I read this. I don't think anyone here has a problem with someone cutting through the corner of a site. Or even cutting through the middle if they have a medical issue.

We were at a campground having dinner at our picnic table. Two kids (probably around 12 years old, plenty old enough to have been taught at least some manners by then) cut through our site on their way to go fishing. They were saving maybe 10 feet of walking. Their fishing poles literally hit our picnic table, and we had to duck to avoid our heads getting hit. That was cutting through a site! We seriously were speechless.

Another time a very young kid, being followed closely by his Mom, walked right next to our camper and had to detour around me (reading on a chair). Mom did nothing to direct the kid away from our site, or even say "sorry!" to me. That was just rude.

Another camping trip we ended up in the middle of a great group of people who we had never met before. We talked, hung out by the fire, etc. One afternoon my kids were on the way to the pool and I reminded them to not cut through other people's sites. Our neighbor camper heard me, and immediately said it was not a problem and for our kids to please use their site as a cut-through - so our kids cut through their site the rest of the weekend.

Again and again, it all comes down to common courtesy (at least, it seems like it used to be "common") and remembering that you are not the only one at the campground.