Our First "Camping Neighbor From He!!" Story

[happybooker1]

This is from 2006, but I don't actually think I ever told it since this was in pre-RV days. This was the FIRST time we camped. Ever. In a Tent.

We headed out to Livingston SP in Livingston Texas. Brand new tent, air mattresses, the whole works. It was me and my son, who was just 9 at the time. We set up, I fixed dinner, we walked around & explored & had a fire. Then we went to bed.

The family in the site next to us were still up, laughing and with the fire going. They finally went to bed about midnight I think. Brief bit of quiet. About 2AM I was awakened by the man (father?) bellowing drunkenly "Deborah, where's the bread?" "I'm Hungry". "I want a sandwich". "Where's the bread?" over and over and tripping/stumbling over things in the campsite in the dark. This went on for about 10 minutes, along with many expletives as he tripped over things and couldn't find the bread, which was the Holy Grail to him now.

Finally I muttered to myself "Get the *&^%$ man his bread Deborah!" to which my son (who was awake but I didn't know it) fell OUT laughing. So I started laughing and then every time we looked at each other we just laughed harder. The man was making so much noise he didn't even realize it.

Finally, someone came out & got him the bread or made him a sandwich or something & all was quiet. We fell back asleep. For about an hour.

Suddenly we were awakened by a younger man --his son-- SCREAMING "No Dad STOP!! NO DON'T DO THAT!! STOP,STOP!" at the top of his lungs, and the sound of more tripping, falling, more expletives and a FLURRY of activity from the site. And "Dad" saying (very slurred speech because by now he's had a few MORE beers in him) "I just want to put the fire out. I'm just gonna put the fire out".

Seems as intoxicated as he was he'd grabbed the FULL GAS CAN as his method of 'putting the fire out'. Son was explaining all this to someone else at the campsite is how we were aware of what had happened.

However, Danger was averted, someone finally persuaded Pops to quit drinking and go to bed, and quiet reigned. At the time, I was NOT happy to get so little sleep that night, but it's gotten more humorous as the years have gone by!

[down_home]

Biggyniner wrote:

Grey Mountain wrote:
No one should be surprised at the proliferation of profanity extant in our society. Every profane word in the English vocabulary can be heard on TV andin the movies. Kids grow up thinking it is normal, and are usually surprised that someone else finds it annoying and inappropriate.

"What we at first tolerate, we later embrace."

GM

Hmm.. maybe in time as the "bad" words get more and more acceptance in society... they will cease to be bad words, just normal words :p... nah

They are Hollwood cool, just like sleeping with other men's wives, a drink in every scene and blood and gore in every other scene. This is what Hollwood lobbied and sued for, in the fifties and sixties. They wanted to be sophisticated like the street trash of France and England. That is the sophistication we got. Get rid of Christian and American principles and morals and get sophisticated.

[wilcamp]

D & M wrote:

happybooker1 wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:

D & M wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:
A woman in daisy duke shorts and fish net stockings and 5 inch heels...

And you left???:@

:B

He left out the part about her being 200 pounds, 😛

Eeeeeeewwww... that's nasty. You are a dream killer.

Didn't we see her posing at the check-out in a recent WalMart Photo blog?

[bhh]

What I heard was, "Profanity is the sign of an inarticulate *bleep*"


I used to laugh when I visited one warehouse. There was one guy who could not emit a sentence without an f-bomb. Not one. Yet he worked in people's homes regularly, so he had to be able to turn it off.

2KGeorgieBoy wrote:
About the profanity comments.....I remember years ago (early 70's) seeing a sign at the rifle range on Langley AFB in Virginia that said..."Profanity is the result of an ignorant mind trying to express itself." Still remember that to this day.....HOW TRUE!

[2KGeorgieBoy]

About the profanity comments.....I remember years ago (early 70's) seeing a sign at the rifle range on Langley AFB in Virginia that said..."Profanity is the result of an ignorant mind trying to express itself." Still remember that to this day.....HOW TRUE!

[D___M]

happybooker1 wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:

D & M wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:
A woman in daisy duke shorts and fish net stockings and 5 inch heels...

And you left???:@

:B

He left out the part about her being 200 pounds, 😛

Eeeeeeewwww... that's nasty. You are a dream killer.

[happybooker1]

rockhillmanor wrote:

D & M wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:
A woman in daisy duke shorts and fish net stockings and 5 inch heels...

And you left???:@

:B

He left out the part about her being 200 pounds, 😛

[rockhillmanor]

D & M wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:
A woman in daisy duke shorts and fish net stockings and 5 inch heels...

And you left???:@

:B

[D___M]

rockhillmanor wrote:
A woman in daisy duke shorts and fish net stockings and 5 inch heels...

And you left???:@

[spoon059]

We were at the lake beginning of this month with a large group. My friend is neighbors with a couple that reserves 10 or more sites at this lake campground and sends out a mass email to the group inviting them. What started as a small group has expanded as friends of friends (like me) get invited and invite their friends, etc.

Well the group was there camping and a friend of a friend of a friend showed up with some of his buddies and their families. First night we are out by the lake with some of the group and this other subsection of the group is up drinking, yelling, cussing, laughing, singing, etc. I was with my friends, listening to the water hit the lake front and trying to have a nice conversation. Finally go to the point it was unbearable, went back to the camper and went to sleep.

Next day I have my dogs out on their lead after breakfast and am up 2 sites away with my other friends. My dogs are quiet, but they will bark at other dogs and bark at people that walk past. Well one of the clowns from the other subsection of the group keeps walking past my dogs, within 5 feet of him. They bark at him, but they stop when he is gone so I didn't intervene. Then after a couple of trips back and forth, he is slowly wandering around them and they are barking constantly. I get up and walk over to them to put them inside.

The clown asks, "Are those your dogs?". I tell him they are. He says, "They are really annoying." I'm on vacation, trying to have a good time. I decide to take the high road. I apologized and told him that dogs sometimes bark, more so when people walk across my campsite and right past them. I then tell him I wouldn't want to be rude and disrupt his peace and quiet and volunteer to take them inside.

I didn't think the clown picked up on my subtle sarcasm.

Later in the weekend we are playing cornhole and one of the guys from that subsection of the group comes over and asks if he can be in line to play. Rather than pitch a fit, we agree to let him play. Well his buddies soon start to trickle over to hang out. The clown comes up and sits down at my picnic table by the boards. I stopped playing and just looked at him. He looked at me and I assume it slowly dawned upon him that he wasn't particularly welcome there. He left a minute later.

The problem is people that think they are alone in the world. The people that think everyone else wants to hear their drunken rant in the middle of the night. If you are gonna get blackout drunk, why not stay at home and save the site fee and put that money towards more booze or a liver transplant. Don't ruin everyone else's vacation too...

Luckily that weekend was the last straw for the group organizer. She wasn't happy with that subsection and how it branched out and was basically looking for a reason to remove them from her email list. I anticipate I won't ever be camping with those clowns again...

[69_Avion]

happybooker1 wrote:
This is from 2006, but I don't actually think I ever told it since this was in pre-RV days. This was the FIRST time we camped. Ever. In a Tent.

We headed out to Livingston SP in Livingston Texas. Brand new tent, air mattresses, the whole works. It was me and my son, who was just 9 at the time. We set up, I fixed dinner, we walked around & explored & had a fire. Then we went to bed.

The family in the site next to us were still up, laughing and with the fire going. They finally went to bed about midnight I think. Brief bit of quiet. About 2AM I was awakened by the man (father?) bellowing drunkenly "Deborah, where's the bread?" "I'm Hungry". "I want a sandwich". "Where's the bread?" over and over and tripping/stumbling over things in the campsite in the dark. This went on for about 10 minutes, along with many expletives as he tripped over things and couldn't find the bread, which was the Holy Grail to him now.

Finally I muttered to myself "Get the *&^%$ man his bread Deborah!" to which my son (who was awake but I didn't know it) fell OUT laughing. So I started laughing and then every time we looked at each other we just laughed harder. The man was making so much noise he didn't even realize it.

Finally, someone came out & got him the bread or made him a sandwich or something & all was quiet. We fell back asleep. For about an hour.

Suddenly we were awakened by a younger man --his son-- SCREAMING "No Dad STOP!! NO DON'T DO THAT!! STOP,STOP!" at the top of his lungs, and the sound of more tripping, falling, more expletives and a FLURRY of activity from the site. And "Dad" saying (very slurred speech because by now he's had a few MORE beers in him) "I just want to put the fire out. I'm just gonna put the fire out".

Seems as intoxicated as he was he'd grabbed the FULL GAS CAN as his method of 'putting the fire out'. Son was explaining all this to someone else at the campsite is how we were aware of what had happened.

However, Danger was averted, someone finally persuaded Pops to quit drinking and go to bed, and quiet reigned. At the time, I was NOT happy to get so little sleep that night, but it's gotten more humorous as the years have gone by!

I'll bet that "Dad" is happy that someone stopped Darwin's Theory of Evolution from occurring during that trip.

[rockhillmanor]

When I went full time it was a big learning curve for me when it came to staying at CG's. They were not my destination they were for me to rest and enjoy my new RV lifestyle. So 'enjoying' the CG was important to me.

1. On Holidays don't stay at a CG within 20 miles of an attraction or a resort town.

2. It's a given to never travel during the holidays. Find a place to hunker down at on a Wednesday and stay thru until the holiday weekend is over.

3. I found state parks to be filled with too many party people ALL the time. Nothing wrong with that, heck I was one once also once upon a time. And we all did gravitate to the state parks to have exponential fun on the weekends.:W

If you want peace and quiet, find a small off the beaten path CG. Has worked for my going on 6 years now.

~ AND ~

The most important thing I learned is that when you pull into a CG ask to be parked out in the lower forty.

If you don't they will park you just like all the rest, all lined up sardine'd in, in the first 2 rows in the next available open empty spot.

Newsflash! They have absolutely no problem parking you in the last row IF YOU REQUEST it!

So next time you pull into a CG and see a lone ranger MH parked on the outskirts of the CG all by themselves, me resting quietly in a lawn chair with a cold one, dogs outside sound asleep 'not' barking at screaming kids running by......that's me! :C

[Paul_Clancy]

We've had to stop booking several campgrounds we used to like because of the proliferation of drunks and their behaviour. Often sitting drunk while their kids terrorize and destroy. It's sad but we do still find quiet nights ocassionlly. The lesson for us is avoid summer season. That is when the bad stuff usually happens. June and September we love and the Cg is usually full of good folks. We once watched a group very drunk mid day in a provincial park- swearing - barfing. I said to my wife grab a chair this should be fun to watch. The park rangers came and warned them then after the idiots kept it up came and evicted them. They said they wouldn't leave because they were too drunk to drive. Ranger said you leave or the police will take you to jail. One fool got on his motorcycle and drove slo mo into a tree and the rest piled into a pickup where the police met and arrested them at the exit. Sweet. They were done and gone about 2pm after that great display a lovely family replaced them who were waiting for an overflow spot. Long weekend in July.

[Ric_Flair]

Hilarious story

[rockhillmanor]

I woke up from a nap to someone yelling threatening to kill the other with a knife and the other guy saying well go ahead and try cause he had a gun!!

Looked out my window and a tent had been put up next to my MH parked in the MH section. A woman in daisy duke shorts and fish net stockings and 5 inch heels was attempting to make coffee on the fire pit while 2 guys started dukeing it out.

Real long story short. The cops had gone into the State Forest that day and ran out all the druggies and homeless. Those with drug money headed for the nearest CG's. :R

That same morning I had just paid for 2 more additional days to stay at that CG because it was so nice and peaceful thinking I would rest up a bit before hitting the road again.

I waited for my new camping neighbors to pass out packed up my MH and left. CG owner called me a couple of hours later when they saw I was missing! They explained the situation, said they were sorry and wanted to comp me for the 2 days I paid for in advance and an additional 2 days for my troubles. Respectively declined their offer and kept on driving to get out of that state asap!:C