There are so many things I don't understand

[aslakson]

Currently it's the guy who's spent most of a half hour trying to back his fiver into a pull-thru site. There must be a logical explanation - he is human, after all - and we humans are rational beings, aren't we?

Free amusements are sometimes the most fun.

al

[dodge_guy]

It`s also fun to watch the boat ramp! actually more fun at the end of the day with all the drunks!

[ppine]

One of the great things about having an RV, is just when you think you know what you are doing something odd happens and you don't look so good. That is where humility comes from.

After a half an hour I would try mentioning to the guy that it might be easier to come in the other way.

[doxiemom11]

Ok ladies, I have to say you are misunderstanding the guys offers. I can tell you after 5+ years of fulltiming that my husband as well as most of the men we have met and spent time with to know, offer to help both men and women when they are backing. That is because we all know how easily it is to not see something when you are in the drivers seat doing the backing. It is much easier to see trees, tree branches, posts etc from outside the rv. Any extra eyes that can keep your expensive rig from being damaged is helpful. It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, accept the help being offered if you don't have a spotter.

It also sounds like there are a couple other people that don't get what was wrong with backing into a pull-thru site. They apparently don't understand what a pull thru site is or they would understand what the problem was.

[JimBollman]

I enjoy watching someone that knows how to back (I don't). I watched a couple back a long 5th wheel into a tight spot in one try no adjusting back and forth. They used headsets and the wife walked around with a stick to measure clearances for slides and just talked to her husband as he backed. I was so impressed I went over and told them so. They said they had been full timing it for awhile.

My second impressed job was large 5th wheel pulled by an over the road semi tractor. They pulled into a tractor/truck show (semi tractor was an antique they were going to show). The fellow directing people told them the gate to the area they wanted to park was behind them. I would have turned around and driven through, they backed up through a gate that was maybe 10' wide across about 800' of open field and under a tree on the other side, all in one smooth sweeping curve at a goo rate of speed. Dropped the trailer and pulled back out to put the tractor on the show field.

Don't usually watch people having problems unless I can help, I would not want them watching me.

[Tutorman57]

2gypsies wrote:
It sounds like many of you are absolutely perfect in everything you do.

I see you haven't met my wife then. Lol

[Johno02]

We are. Couldn't have lasted this long if we weren't.

[2gypsies1]

It sounds like many of you are absolutely perfect in everything you do.

[Tvov]

What I do like about internet forums is all the stuff posted... the good, bad, and the ugly!

[paddywanpeep]

That reminds me of a similar question I have always wondered about. Maybe some one here can answer it for me: Why do some people feel the need to make fun of others; and then, just for an extra good measure - post it on an internet forum?

I can answer that for you. Because sometimes its just funnier than S#!^

[Tutorman57]

After backing my Van in I ran over the help my good friend guide his brand new 30ft 5th wheel in. I have NO experience with a 5th wheel and so I was just doing whatever he asked. As he disconnected he forgot to chock the wheels and the whole thing slid off the plate and crushed his new trucks tail gate.
As it was happening his wife SCREAMED STOP, I just screamed, he hit the brakes and off it went. Crush.... Oboy...That was this summer he still yelling at us (mostly in fun .. I hope lol)

Any how I see someone gona back in or pull in I'll ask "Can I help you spot while you back in" .
As an Air Force Crash Truck Fire fighter I had lot's of training to back up all kinds of big riggs Including a 5000 gal tractor trailer water tanker. And a spotter was always required. If there was no spotter you waited.
What the AF FD didn't know was I had lot's of practice as a kid backing up our station wagon with our Wheel camper in tow.

An I would NEVER enjoy seeing someone wreck something. Heck I would feel bad I didn't get there in time to stop them.
So if I asked an you said no thank you, an I see your backing into a tree,,,Damm straight I'm gona yell something like "STOP".
But that's just me...Enjoyed the tread. Come on over later have a drink.

[ldonabed]

I also don't understand the "entertainment" aspect of watching others struggle. Backing into a site with our 33ft fifth wheel is the most stressful part of our trip each & every time. After 4 yrs it's still not easy & thinking that we have an audience makes it that much harder especially knowing the mind-set of some people.

[CavemanCharlie]

I usually , sheepishly, politely, offer to help. If they politely refuse, I bow out, then I set out of the way where they can not see me and watch.

If they are a jerk about it, I pull up a chair. ( I should add that I don't actually pull up a chair. I just watch without being as polite about it )

[coolbreeze01]

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Last time I offered a 'extra set of eyes' cause site was 'tight' I got chewed out by lady driver......she had been a bus driver for 20+ years.

SO I pulled up lawn chair on my site for better viewing angle and WATCHED her smash front bumper on a boulder, whack MH tail on a tree and then dent compartment door an another boulder.

I still offer but doesn't take much to turn me into a spectator.

I bet she couldn't back up a train on the tracks :B

[Arcamper]

I had to back out of a pull through site 3 weeks ago because of low limbs going forward. I have noticed this more and more in campgrounds that low limbs are not a priority. And no one offered any help nor did I need any.