How do you feel about people walking through your campsite?

My dog got loose this past weekend, and I had to chase him and stepped about 10 feet into our neighbor's campsite to get him. I felt really dirty :) Nobody seemed to be home for days, but it felt wrong anyways.

My family does not walk through others sites. I prefer others not walk through ours. "What they say/how they say it" when I ask if I can help them as they walk through determines the rest of the encounter. I have a dog and now teenage children and none of them need stranger encounters in our campsite. The much needed and sometimes sorely missing common sense/common courtesy is taught if you expose yourself to be lacking! Nicely, but firmly. Has worked since I was a kid and my parents told me not to walk through other sites and watching my parents speak to uninvited guests. Works for my family now! You might say paying the proper etiquette lesson forward!

This has got to be in my top 5 of pet peeves.

Ive always told my Daughters since they were little (now in there 20's) not to do that.

Just last summer, I had this young boy, probably 8-10 yrs old, come waltzing through my site on his way back from the beach. He was carrying a water ski tube and draging the tow rope about 15' behind him. I thought, "hmmm lets see how this plays out" and sure enough, he snagged a small folding table, knocking it over as well as a chair. I said "REALLY?!!" and his parents looked on and never batted an eye. In fact, they looked at my like "whats your problem?"

SprinklerMan wrote:
a big real looking rubber rattle snake

LIGHTBULB!!!

Stealing that one...

SprinklerMan wrote:
It doesnt bother me when people cut thru ,its rather entertaining , a couple of beers , a little bit of fishing string and a big real looking rubber rattle snake . A couple tugs on the string , they turn around real quick .

at first I thought you were going to say you close line them with the fishing line! :)

It doesnt bother me when people cut thru ,its rather entertaining , a couple of beers , a little bit of fishing string and a big real looking rubber rattle snake . A couple tugs on the string , they turn around real quick .

paddywanpeep wrote:
I get off my chair, walk up to them and punch them as hard as I can in the face, men, women, kids, bears, dogs, squirrels, birds, mt.lions, raccoons, skunks, cats, park police, bees, I don't care. If they say, growl or anything back I punch them in the head again. This has worked well for me over the years.

too funny...

I find them delicious with barbecue sauce.

Not pleased with them doing it and has been done many times. We have been setting out front of the camper and I have 4 dogs that go crazy barking in protecting what is our space.

Sharon

Ruthless wrote:
How do you feel about people walking through your campsite?

I bluntly but politely ask "can I help you" and unless the answer is they want to speak to one of us I tell them to walk around etc. I have explained to newbies that if gear would be stolen they could be implicated because they were on a site they did not rent. Newbies usually say thank you, its the un-parents who can't say no or act like a parent that are less receptive.