Curious on the social aspect of rv'ing

1775 wrote:
Since we first started looking into RVing and then in the past four years that we have been RVing, we had and keep hearing about how friendly RVers are. How people wave to each other and say hello. How welcoming RVers in a campground will be. It has been our experience that this is the rare exception other than the norm. We wave - very rarely does anyone wave back. We say hello and we are ignored. Maybe it is the East Coast that is the exception, but we have yet to find this comradely among RVers that gets talked about. My wife keeps asking me where are all of these friendly people that you keep telling me about at the campgrounds.

You travel in a Road Trek which costs more than many class A
motor homes.

Perception is everything,
trade for a forty foot bus and you will be surprised
how many suddenly want to become your friend!

Also, avoid KOAs, I have found that the elitist syndrome
is deeply ingrained in the personality
of those who stay in a KOA.

So far u got it rite,had a guy to walk through our site,I ask can I help u,he said what, I say u have to walk to the rest room, inca it do that for u.oh walk round our site. That's a good idea. Happy-camping

pitch wrote:
I am not going to say they we in the NE are unfriendly. I prefer the word taciturn. We just are not extroverts like some. If you approach me I will not be unfriendly or rude. To be honest, I don't know what I would say to a total stranger beyond the Hi how are ya, where ya from.

Taciturn is the perfect word.

I grew up in the hills of western Massachusetts and New Englanders are known for being close mouthed and reserved.

It's a regional thing.

I am not going to say they we in the NE are unfriendly. I prefer the word taciturn. We just are not extroverts like some. If you approach me I will not be unfriendly or rude. To be honest, I don't know what I would say to a total stranger beyond the Hi how are ya, where ya from.

Ditto on the northeast. And it's not just RVing. Boating, driving, public transportation and just general human interaction in the northeast seems to be less personal than anywhere else in the country. Maybe it's the lack of space.

Sorry to say I can assure you that you probably wont find freindly people in to many places in the northeast, this is one reason we are going west and getting out of New England. I can tell you people are overall much freindlier once you hit Virginia going south. As for going west? We're going to find that out, but we've traveled all over and I fear we have to get most of the way across the country before "friendly" is really found. Maybe this should be a call to rv'ers to try and be a little nicer. You can certainly be freindly without being best buddies, it doesnt take much to wave, smile and say hi. A good life lesson for all.

Since we first started looking into RVing and then in the past four years that we have been RVing, we had and keep hearing about how friendly RVers are. How people wave to each other and say hello. How welcoming RVers in a campground will be. It has been our experience that this is the rare exception other than the norm. We wave - very rarely does anyone wave back. We say hello and we are ignored. Maybe it is the East Coast that is the exception, but we have yet to find this comradely among RVers that gets talked about. My wife keeps asking me where are all of these friendly people that you keep telling me about at the campgrounds.

yeah Seadog, looks like people with there noses in the air are all over in every aspect of life. It is sad, I agree.

In RVing, as with boating,
there are many snobs.

If you have less than a new forty footer,
lots of luck starting a conversation or becoming friendly
with the "Bus" people!

This winter, we have had a couple staying across from us
in a cargo trailer.
Bed in the center, port a pottie, no windows.

Nicest folks in the world,
most people in the campground
take one look at the trailer
and make no effort to become acquainted.

Sad way to live, looking down ones nose at others!

pk1023 wrote:
Excuse me, you weren't there. Let me add more detail. My children WELL know the boundaries that are placed upon them. They were little and I believe they thought it was common area. They were throwing a good 10 feet from the back of his unit and not at the unit.

The OLD man yelled at my children. He didn't warn them, he didn't remind them. He BULLIED them, he used his size against them. So when I had to intervene, I used my size to STEP BETWEEN him and my children. I feared for their safety. No reasonable adult YELLS at children BEFORE they cause harm. You're right, they didn't belong there and I TOLD THEM THAT afterwards.

This all happened in the space of 5 minutes. Those who oppose me are drawing it out to like half an hour.

These kids were 6 and 8, it's VERY likely they didn't understand the risk they were taking. Were it today at 10 and 8, yeah it'd be different.

cbshoestring wrote:
AT PK1023

YOU were NOT parenting. A parent would have sized up the situation, and yelled at HIS KIDS to get off (away from) that other mans site/trailer. Then apologized to that man for his kids being where they don't belong.

What do you call YELLING at???? Was the guy going Pyscho, or did you just not like that he was adamant that your kids would not do wrong near his stuff. Teach your kids to play ball in a safe area (where "accidents" can not accur), teach them about boundries (the world does NOT belong to them), then teach then respect for others.

What did you teach them????

Do as you want......wherever you want......and DAD will be a BULLY for you.

Have you not heard, ANTI-BULLYING is the new wave.

Before everybody gets up in arms. I believe that ANY adult has the right to scold any child if the child is about to harm himself, others or property that doesn't belong to him

NO YOU DON'T. This man was scolding them because they were about to harm.... property that doesn't belong to him

What you mean is....rescue my kids if they are about to kill themselves....otherwise leave them be.

I politely (as much as I could) told him NOT to speak to my boys. If he has a problem with them, he can find me and I will handle it.

Yeah, we know how your crowd works....

20 years ago at my home, I repeatedly ask the kickball crowd to watch my car. I enjoyed watching them play, but after the ball bounced off my car into my lap on the front porch....to which all I got was a bunch of laughing....I kept the ball and told them to have a parent come get it. The parents sent the POLICE, who called ME the grumpy old man (I was 33 at the time).

Had the nerve to tell me that I should take MY car out of MY driveway, and put it in MY garage...to keep the neighbors BRATS from causing a problem on MY property.

You still don't get it. Maybe the old man went overboard. That does not change the fact that you told your kids AFTERWARD that they didn't belong there. You say they did not understand the risk. Managing risk for them is YOUR job. You said yourself they were too young to do it for themselves at the time.
If you were doing your job as a parent none of this would have happened. We are all imperfect and human. We all make mistakes. But you only want to recognize the other guy's mistake while ignoring your own.