Camping pet peeve

Any one with bad manners. Anyone so unfriendly to not speak as they go by or worse yet cross your site. Parties by groups who seem to think they own the campground, with loud noises, loud talking, loud laughing, and the inevitable argument.
I stay home more and more, it is at least civil here in the neighborhood.

Once saw a camper get mad at a 12 year old for cutting through his site and stopped him to read him the riot act. Turns out the kid was on the way to the bathroom in a hurry. The kid vomited all over the man's pants and shoes. The man went on to the bathroom as well.

So not all trespassing is necessarily because of lack of courtesy.

Pet peeve as I mentioned many times before: people who expect you to change sites with them because of their poor planning. Have considered making a sign to put out with my flag: "DON'T EVEN THINK of asking me to trade sites with you." It's only happened twice but within a year's time. From other posts here, it's becoming a regular occurrence.

Most of the other stuff I can put up with (except the large dog piles):E

As someone previously posted, it all comes down to basic courtesy. This includes parents teaching kids not to walk through other people's campsites, picking up after your dog, keeping moderately quiet early in the morning, paying attention to quiet hours, etc.

I LOVE hearing kids playing and riding bikes during the day at most campgrounds. 6:30am though is a bit early - those kiddie bikes with plastic training wheels are LOUD.

I have sat around campfires laughing out loud - but at 10 or 11pm (usual quiet hours) we quiet down.

We had neighboring campers show up once with electric and acoustic guitars and a drum set - it was really cool listening to them playing in the evening, right up to 11pm when they shut down for the night.

We went to a campout with a large group of emergency personnel, and a bagpiper showed up (a semi tradition with firefighters at a lot of events). That was AWESOME, all the surrounding campers walked over to hear him play, and the applause was almost deafening after he played a few songs and then sat down to relax. It is amazing how far the sound of bagpipes will carry.

It is all about remembering that YOU are not the only one in a campground... again, basic courtesy while keeping in mind different people have different levels of, well, annoyance.

My biggest pet peeve? Strangers walking through "my" campsite, especially if it is a small, tight campground. It is weird when you sit down to eat at your picnic table and strangers walk by between you and your camper, practically under the awning. At some campgrounds it got so bad that we positioned our truck and bikes to block people.

Whatever happens, find the humor in it, and see you on the road!

I try to have an open mind, BUT I hate the smell of burning garbage in the surrounding fire pits! :E

mowermech wrote:
One of my pet peeves is people who come to one of our favorite primitive campgrounds, then complain that:
They have to bag their garbage and take it back out with them, because there is NO garbage service
There is no shower house
There are no lights or electricity
There is no or very poor cell service
There are no hookups
There is no wifi
There is no dump station
Then, when they have gone through their litany of "complaints", they wonder when I say "YES, isn't it WONDERFUL, those are the reasons we come here!"

Good One!!!!

Now we know the problems. Here is the SOLUTION!!!!! Unless your pet peeve is peace and quiet!!! :B

Denlor wrote:
X2 about yappy dogs big or small

X3

Jack_Diane_Freedom wrote:
Mine is having an RV pull in the next site and they have 4 yappy little dogs in a pen an every time I go outside they go off and no one comes out to stop them. Very annoying.

mine is having an RV pull in the next site and they have 4 yappy little kids. :)

One of my pet peeves is people who come to one of our favorite primitive campgrounds, then complain that:
They have to bag their garbage and take it back out with them, because there is NO garbage service
There is no shower house
There are no lights or electricity
There is no or very poor cell service
There are no hookups
There is no wifi
There is no dump station
Then, when they have gone through their litany of "complaints", they wonder when I say "YES, isn't it WONDERFUL, those are the reasons we come here!"

Adults walking thru our site and dogs barking probably tie while coming in a close third is people who have to back up ten times to get into their lot and do not let the line that backs up after them move past.