Where not to picnic GSMP

[Markiemark32]

See the craziest things, sometmes:

Great Smokey National Park, is the most visited National Park, free to the public.

Right on the Gatlinburg side, is a visitor center (info, maps, picnic tables, trails, etc…) before going into the park. Across the street is a RV DUMP STATION nestled in the woods.

This group of Michigan students were having a picnic lunch, a nice sheet out on the ground, a full spread of food – RIGHT IN THE LUSH FERTILIZED GRASS AREA 3 FEET FROM THE SEWER SYSTEM.

They were a little baffled when RV’s started rolling in.

This guy in front of us, letting them know, “You know you all are eating next to a sewer. Then as he hooked up his hose (they were still sitting, going to watch), he says – “THIS IS THE POOP SHOOT :E…You may want to move over to that nice hiking trail area across the way.”

At that point, they decided to move the lunch.

The Rv’er wraps up his RV dumping duty, and says to us, “HEY meet you all back here at 6 for dinner?!?!"




Markiemark:C

[IndyCamp]

Honestly, what is the point of this thread?

Did we need ANOTHER excuse for people to post "you can't fix stupid?"

I would like to see a serious discussion about the dangers of the the following setups that feature eating areas very close to sewers:









30 seconds of searching on Google Images founds these pictures from actual RV parks that are no different or worse than the picture in the OP. Where is the outrage?

[IndyCamp]

down home wrote:
Kids are not exposed to life. All they know is school where they teach them to follow not to learn.
Very few mow grass, or sack groceries or wash cars, nor are part time jobs, for them available.
Most are not in Scouts, don't play baseball, football, at school or in neighborhoods. No open spaces. They perceive life and get their values from Tee Vee or Puter. Dad doesn't take them fishing or to ball games.
Never seen a live animal other than dog or cat, wouldn't know which end of a hoe is for the ground.
They are not exposed to life and are soft. They need to hire out to a truck farm for summers and learn about being outside, making their own money, and buying his date her corsage with money he earned.
I didn't have a farm but still got the kids into baseball and softball etc. Daughter got her nose broke by a line drive. She survived and went on.
Son lettered in basketball, football, band, track. He played on state championship team in football and was scouted by Alabama for football, he was too light oth babtized and know right and wrong and pursue the the light. When push comes to shove can make their way anywhere under any circumstances.
Ok I'm bragging but the point I am reinterating again is we and Everyone will make what out children become, even if they are not our kids.
Everyone doesn't get things done because life gets in the way.
We have to make our Nations children part of life.
In church, Sunday School, Boy Scouts, baseball They know how to fish and hunt and swim which is very imporatant.
i came a cross a Captain, I believe, in the Army that took his family camping and fishing and taught responsibility and self confidence to his kids.
They were young but acted responsible and safely in their own kayaks and everything else.
Or the 8 or 9 year old Amish backing the horse into the traces, like a mature man of fifty.
Our kids are being wasted and their lives shortchanged.
Time to do somethign about it.

What does this have to do with the original post?

Furthermore, please show statistics that prove more kids, per capita, were in Scouts, sports, and neighborhoods (huh?) in "your day" than than are now.

I get so tired of this "in my day" mentality, and I'm not even a Millennial.

I would bet that most Millenials can, unlike you, spell "important," or "something," and would never say "reinterating," or "babtized."

[mich800]

down home wrote:
Kids are not exposed to life. All they know is school where they teach them to follow not to learn.
Very few mow grass, or sack groceries or wash cars, nor are part time jobs, for them available.
Most are not in Scouts, don't play baseball, football, at school or in neighborhoods. No open spaces. They perceive life and get their values from Tee Vee or Puter. Dad doesn't take them fishing or to ball games.
Never seen a live animal other than dog or cat, wouldn't know which end of a hoe is for the ground.
They are not exposed to life and are soft. They need to hire out to a truck farm for summers and learn about being outside, making their own money, and buying his date her corsage with money he earned.
I didn't have a farm but still got the kids into baseball and softball etc. Daughter got her nose broke by a line drive. She survived and went on.
Son lettered in basketball, football, band, track. He played on state championship team in football and was scouted by Alabama for football, he was too light oth babtized and know right and wrong and pursue the the light. When push comes to shove can make their way anywhere under any circumstances.
Ok I'm bragging but the point I am reinterating again is we and Everyone will make what out children become, even if they are not our kids.
Everyone doesn't get things done because life gets in the way.
We have to make our Nations children part of life.
In church, Sunday School, Boy Scouts, baseball They know how to fish and hunt and swim which is very imporatant.
i came a cross a Captain, I believe, in the Army that took his family camping and fishing and taught responsibility and self confidence to his kids.
They were young but acted responsible and safely in their own kayaks and everything else.
Or the 8 or 9 year old Amish backing the horse into the traces, like a mature man of fifty.
Our kids are being wasted and their lives shortchanged.
Time to do somethign about it.

I disagree with many points above. I think sometimes we get caught up in our own nostalgia and only see what we want to. There is no shortage of kids playing baseball, football, basketball and soccer around here. Our schools still have boy scouts and girl scouts and other clubs. Sure there may be many in an urban environment that have not been to a "petting zoo" or farm but that can hardly be classified as not exposed to life. There are just as many in rural environments that have never set foot in a museum or other "refined" cultural venue but I would never call them unsophisticated. Our parents dealt with change just as our kids as parents will also deal with change. Just because Billy is not mowing lawns and then spending his 5 cents on a pack of bazooka doesn't mean an entire generation is doomed or lazy.

[dspencer]

Homer wrote:
Still scares me that they are going to vote.

Actually I think there older sibling's has already voted from the looks of the mess our country is in now. :h

[dodge_guy]

If the weather is nice I'm dressed the same as the guy in the picture. Doesn't matter what your wearing, if their is an accident your gonna get a mess on you. Actually the way the guy is dressed is better. Just rinse off and clean your leg and your done!

[bukhrn]

I don't think it matters, if they know what a dump station is for or not, nor if they can read, I wouldn't want to eat my picnic lunch 10ft from a dumpster, I assume they know what one is.
And for all those worried about the guy handling the hose without gloves, Many people do, besides, being as I don't see anything coming out of the hose, I'm guessing that he hasn't pulled the handle yet.
And as far as the hose with no end, what's the big deal, I have a 10' hose just like it, the end fits down the hole very nicely.

[wing_zealot]

OFDOS - I found a nice looking diamond ring once. Turned out to be CZ and I got water in my gloves for nothing.

[OFDPOS]

Funny all the comments on the college kids next to the dump station and it took till page 3 before someone commented on the RVer in sandals and bare hands on what looks to be a hose with no end attachment to the dump hole.. LOL

wing_zealot wrote:

Maybe it's the people that think it's a bio-hazard area just because it's a dump station that are stupid. You may be mortified to know what people in the wastewater industry regularly do; and live to tell about it (without becoming the least bit ill). After all, I don't think they were drinking the water.


Yep Hep C shots, Hep B shots , booster shots after 6 months.
In chest-waders with brown trout floating by while trying to get a lift pump handle because vandals had cut the lock on the lift station gate and stole the stainless steal chains to the lift pump.
It didn't matter if you were in the rich part of town or the poor part cleaning the sewer lines it all smelled the same , only difference it appeared the rich part ate more fiber...

If you ever get change back from a purchase and the coins look kinda ate up they might be from when one of us had turned in all the coins we got after flushing sewer lines then picked out all the coins , 🙂 (don't worry at least we washed them) over one summer we had collected over $100.00 in coins , a few diamond/gold rings ,few gold ear rings. One watch that was still working several dead cell phones and numerous syringes !! We always watched out for that !

I know I know too much information !!! lol

[momentum_rv]

And heaven forbid they ever get any nature on them.

[buta4]

Never seen a live animal other than dog or cat, wouldn't know which end of a hoe is for the ground.

I remember a neighborhood boy who, during a car ride, saw a cow in a field and exclaimed "Look at that big dog!" Shame.

[tomman58]

down home wrote:
Kids are not exposed to life. All they know is school where they teach them to follow not to learn.
Very few mow grass, or sack groceries or wash cars, nor are part time jobs, for them available.
Most are not in Scouts, don't play baseball, football, at school or in neighborhoods. No open spaces. They perceive life and get their values from Tee Vee or Puter. Dad doesn't take them fishing or to ball games.
Never seen a live animal other than dog or cat, wouldn't know which end of a hoe is for the ground.
They are not exposed to life and are soft. They need to hire out to a truck farm for summers and learn about being outside, making their own money, and buying his date her corsage with money he earned.
I didn't have a farm but still got the kids into baseball and softball etc. Daughter got her nose broke by a line drive. She survived and went on.
Son lettered in basketball, football, band, track. He played on state championship team in football and was scouted by Alabama for football, he was too light oth babtized and know right and wrong and pursue the the light. When push comes to shove can make their way anywhere under any circumstances.
Ok I'm bragging but the point I am reinterating again is we and Everyone will make what out children become, even if they are not our kids.
Everyone doesn't get things done because life gets in the way.
We have to make our Nations children part of life.
In church, Sunday School, Boy Scouts, baseball They know how to fish and hunt and swim which is very imporatant.
i came a cross a Captain, I believe, in the Army that took his family camping and fishing and taught responsibility and self confidence to his kids.
They were young but acted responsible and safely in their own kayaks and everything else.
Or the 8 or 9 year old Amish backing the horse into the traces, like a mature man of fifty.
Our kids are being wasted and their lives shortchanged.
Time to do somethign about it.

I agree with you 100% but what the heck does that have to do with this thread?
This is the age of the whimp by the way. We have stress management if a kid doesn't get an ice cream cone. We worry to much about bullys , if anything most of us were better after dealing with them. You are correct about even knowing what outdoors is about or how to swim a mile. I did it all and was an eagle scout with bronze palm,but my dad was the scoutmaster. Dads are not that abundant any more at the dinner table or anywhere else their kids are.

[down_home]

Kids are not exposed to life. All they know is school where they teach them to follow not to learn.
Very few mow grass, or sack groceries or wash cars, nor are part time jobs, for them available.
Most are not in Scouts, don't play baseball, football, at school or in neighborhoods. No open spaces. They perceive life and get their values from Tee Vee or Puter. Dad doesn't take them fishing or to ball games.
Never seen a live animal other than dog or cat, wouldn't know which end of a hoe is for the ground.
They are not exposed to life and are soft. They need to hire out to a truck farm for summers and learn about being outside, making their own money, and buying his date her corsage with money he earned.
I didn't have a farm but still got the kids into baseball and softball etc. Daughter got her nose broke by a line drive. She survived and went on.
Son lettered in basketball, football, band, track. He played on state championship team in football and was scouted by Alabama for football, he was too light oth babtized and know right and wrong and pursue the the light. When push comes to shove can make their way anywhere under any circumstances.
Ok I'm bragging but the point I am reinterating again is we and Everyone will make what out children become, even if they are not our kids.
Everyone doesn't get things done because life gets in the way.
We have to make our Nations children part of life.
In church, Sunday School, Boy Scouts, baseball They know how to fish and hunt and swim which is very imporatant.
i came a cross a Captain, I believe, in the Army that took his family camping and fishing and taught responsibility and self confidence to his kids.
They were young but acted responsible and safely in their own kayaks and everything else.
Or the 8 or 9 year old Amish backing the horse into the traces, like a mature man of fifty.
Our kids are being wasted and their lives shortchanged.
Time to do somethign about it.

[samhain7]

Mr.Beebo wrote:
We were at that very dumpstation last summer. I posted a thread on the forum with a pic of the camper and owner that was in line before us. The woman was in flip flops and opened her black water cap, allowing the fluid (and solids) to splat all over the ground, as well as her feet and lower legs. She was only semi close to the drain hole. I imagine that happens more often than we know.

I remember you posting that!

[Mr_Beebo]

We were at that very dumpstation last summer. I posted a thread on the forum with a pic of the camper and owner that was in line before us. The woman was in flip flops and opened her black water cap, allowing the fluid (and solids) to splat all over the ground, as well as her feet and lower legs. She was only semi close to the drain hole. I imagine that happens more often than we know. FWIW, there were no picnic tables there at that time, and I cannot believe a ranger would ever choose to put one along a dump station.