Camping pet peeve

Here is one we recently ran into. Most state CGs & NP will leave a reservation notice on the site post so that self registering walk ups know what is reserved & what is not & pick a site accordingly.

We recently went into an un manned WA SP, picked a site, set up & were off to pay just as we have done so many times before. Just as the DW has disappeared in the direction of the gate a small TT shows up claiming the site is theirs having reserved online. Really! Well, the site did not even have a site post to put a number on, let alone a reservation slip, so who is to know what is what.

In the middle of this a SP staff member did show up. The site was indeed reserved by the small TT so we had to move. An hour wasted by both partys which could have been saved with a slip on a post.

paulsang wrote:

If ciggy smoke makes you as sick as you say (yet somwehow campfire smoke does not), it is your personal responsibility to protect yourself. There are plenty of smoke-free CG out there.

I've never heard of such a place. I'd think in they would be most likely to exist in CA, but I've never seen nor heard of one.

I'm relatively new to RVing, and I do take advice from other campers, and have been corrected when I'm doing something wrong, but I hate it when I'm told I'm doing something wrong and it is one of those topics that NO ONE agrees on. If I asked the next camper, he would have told me the exact opposite as the first advice.

As I gained some experience, I've helped out other campers, but on the topics that I know that no one agrees on, I tell them how I do it, but that others do it differently.

I also dislike people walking through my campsite - it's rude and disrespectful. However, the next most annoying thing are the loud and obnoxious drunks, particularly when it's during quiet hours.

Twice I've set up my chair outside under a shade tree at a campsite (same park, very rural piney woods with large wooded and shrubby private sites) and had the odor of human piss ruin the setting.

Tell tale signs of cigarette butts on the ground and beer cans in the trash completed the image of guys getting rowdy and stupid.

I'd have to call this a pet peeve now.

dalmationlovers wrote:
Running out of cold beer.

When my wife brings the beer she likes instead of the ones I like!

DiskDoctr wrote:

magnusfide wrote:

ScottG wrote:
Those who disrespectfully dismiss others pet peeves are probably the source of them.

Sums it up nicely.

X2!



If you want to smoke, it's your choice. But remember, most people do not enjoy sharing it with you. Just because they may tolerate it doesn't mean they enjoy it.

Remember, if you are smoking, it is YOUR responsibility to consider where your smoke is going. I wouldn't park my big diesel rig in front of your site with the tailpipe pointing right at you and idle it for hours, stinking up you and your rig. That would be rude.

Using you logic, and I'm in your corner here, then people should also be considerate of their smoke from a campfire. Funny, how the smoke from a campfire never goes in the direction of the RV of the campfire.

dieharder wrote:
Only one thing really annoys me... those that have no idea how much the smell of weed can permeate throughout a campground. I've never had the unfortunate opportunity to camp beside someone who partakes, but I've been where I have been hundreds of feet from where someone was, and they were surprised that people around them were complaining about it. It's not like cigarette smoke that dissipates in the air within a few feet, this stuff can be smelled a long way away.

a call to 9-1-1 solves that problem right now.

11 pages of Pet Peve posts on RV.net. Got to page 4 before reading the same things multiple times.

Padlin wrote:

DiskDoctr wrote:


Cigarette smoke is a biggie for us....

From an Asthmatic... Not that it's a pet peeve but I'm exactly the opposite, can't stand smokey fires, mine included if it fits the bill. However I'm camping as are the rest of the folks so it's just something I have to live with so I go inside. Bought a gas fire pit that works pretty well although I've only used it one weekend so far. For some reason a cigarette from the next site doesn't seem to bother me, don't even know if I've ever noticed such.

Pet Peeve, noisy neighbors after hours, bought and use a white noise generator, turn it up as loud as I need to.

I'm beginning to think this is the new norm. :R