Sidewalk chalk

[downtheroad]

The last two site we pulled in to (Oregon State Parks) were covered in chalk drawings, art, graffiti?? It was all over the parking pad and out into the street that services the loop.

Am I just a grumpy guy or is anyone else kind of bothered by this...?
I do know that there are a lot of bigger things to get grumpy about, but....

[drsteve]

If all you have to worry about is chalk drawings on the pad at your campsite, count yourself lucky.

Some of you folks are just the life of the party...

[et2]

Not saying the chalk thing is or isn't respectable, wrong or right. But ... When I was a Boy Scout and until this day we were taught to leave your campsite better than you found it. Fire pit cleaned and put out, campsite trash removed, and everything where it belonged.

Kids and things they do are often used to drive a wedge in today's society. Personally if it were my kids. They would have all the fun they wanted within boundaries. They would have been expected to clean the site before we left. And if that wasn't possible it would never have happened to begin with.

[down_home]

Get your own chalk and chalk and do a do over. Maybe a jumping bass catching a redwing blackbird.
We all let little things bother us sometime. Forget it. Go fishing or hiking of antiquing or cards and inner withe neighbors.
If it is on your site and worried about tracking it into thee coach ask the Mgr if you can hose it off.

[path1]

Would not be a problem if chalk was regulated and not sold to minors

[rickeoni]

[lots2seeinmyrv]

Are they really cleaning up the chalk with a bucket of soap and water and using a brush and cleaning up their sites before they leave? NO

Many do not even clean up after their dogs and throw their trash in the fire pit for the next person to clean up.

Use coloring books and crayons.

A lot of people do not want to pull into a site with this mess all over it.

Like the previous posted said, it gets tracked into the RV and you can't get it out.

Chalk up your own driveway at home.

People are so rude and inconsiderate of the next person who occupies the site.

[drsteve]

It's chalk. It goes away all by itself when it rains. Kids have been drawing on sidewalks with chalk for as long as there have been sidewalks.

If ever there was a nonissue, this is it.

[RV_daytrader]

I say, let your kids chalk draw all they want...then you clean it up before you leave!...it's that simple!

[d3500ram]

I will 'prolly get some guff back because of the consensus of many on this topic, but here goes:

When I was a kid I never think of defacing property however minimal or "non-permanent" it might be. If there is some sort of precedent to "child-art" such as this innocuous chalk expression I would never have done such an act without permission of the owners of the property be that property public or private. To assume one can deface property in the name of non-permanent art is rude and disrespectful.

Would any of the RV'ers allow some kid to use a dry erase marker (or some other non-permanent media) to perform her art on the side of your camper without permission. Should not matter since it is fun and creative. I am sure you would not allow it even if the rugrat did ask. Should not the same respect be given to the owners of the campground be that have public or private.

If permission is granted then have at it... be a juvenile Picasso!

[Ralph_Cramden]

downtheroad wrote:


I'm sorry I even started this thing.

Why? It's a doosey. So much so I had to jump off the tractor in the middle of grass cutting to get an update........thanks and good job.

[Grit_dog]

gbopp wrote:
Wait until the kids figure out how to do sidewalk chalk art with a drone. Them some members will really have something to be grumpy about. :B

yeah we should merge the 2 threads and call them "Ridiculos insignificant things that some people can't help but complain about!"

[D_E_Bishop]

I remember a great movie about a man with a dream, "The Last American Indian", in the middle of the movie the police and paramedics are called to aid a man(the dreamer) and find that his distress occurred during a delicate moment. He was the neighborhood curmudgeon and his lady friend was a well respected friendly neighbor. When a busybody made some comment to the lady friend about why him, her reply was "Grumpy old men need love too".

Now on to sidewalk chalk. We frequently camp during the winter a an almost local beach campground. It is a fairly large campground and very near a military installation, as with most of those, there are a lot of young families and this is a close, inexpensive and fun place for those who protect us to get away and relax and play with their kids. We often found flat beach stones with all sorts of decorations on them, mostly pactra paint. Funny thing about those decorated stones, they were gone on our next visit.

The waves were still there relentlessly forming and crashing onto the beach, those pesky gulls were still screaming into the winds and scattering unattended trash bag contents all over and the sky was still a ever changing but beautiful blue.

Life goes on there, no huge piles of painted rocks or permanently colored roads but we have seen three and four generation of families there camping together and "oohing and ahhing" over those decorated rocks and roads that will next week be clean canvases for another generation of campers.

The OP asked how others felt and this is my sappy but happy opinion. And I have learned over the last fleeting years that our kids turned out pretty good and our grandkids are not perfect but they are above all else, loving, caring people. How can you get mad at that.

[zigzagrv]

Just two questions:
1) Does the OP have children?
2) Was the OP ever a child?

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

Ralph Cramden wrote:

PartyOf Five wrote:
Interesting to see all the different perspectives. I think we've seen enough to close this thread out. Enjoy your Saturday everybody, with or without chalk! 🙂

Appointing yourself a moderator?

I vote for keeping it going..........its the most entertaining read on here in quite awhile.

On RV.net we have the weight police, chalk police and now the thread police. :R I don't even go to ATC, and haven't for years because of the thread police.

[Ralph_Cramden]

fj12ryder wrote:
"One was a drawing of Rumpelstiltskin, a woman in a castle with long hair hanging down."

That would have been Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin was the spin straw into gold story.

I am of the opinion that Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin, and probably even Rumpy, should be banned from all state, federal, and private campgrounds no matter if they have sidewalk chalk or a drone with them or not.