Is it just me or do others consider it disrespectful when others walk through your site at a caravan park instead of walking around or at a minimum walking between sites if too lazy to go round. No wonder so many kids have no respect when adults who should know better set such a poor example
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Joff & Cheryl
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We've RVed in the USA for many many years. It's a hanging offence over there. Simply not done.
We have friends with a small motorhome. They set up in their allocated site in a caravan park. Put out the awning. A lady approached them and asked them not to put up their awning. When asked why they were told that her husband walked through that site on his trips to the toilet. Friends said no. So the lady complained to the office. Office told the lady to get a bucket for her husband!!!
Thanks all. Thought it was just me getting grumpy as this crazy year of 2020 goes on. Must say though that most people in parks are great and after 5 1/2 years on the road staying mostly in parks we have been in a lot of parks.
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Joff & Cheryl
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I wouldn't dream of walking through somebody's setup and can't really understand how anyone could think that it's ok.
I've only been camping a few times now and I stayed in a small tent, so most of my allocated sites were "empty" apart from my tent and car. Some people in a caravan over the back of one site apologised to me for going across somewhere. I was quite surprised, I didn't notice anything amiss and it didn't bother me, but obviously other people not only agree with the viewpoint that a site is not to be "invaded" but they'll apologise for "infractions" that weren't really a problem. Walking on a bit of open grass is very different to walking through somebody's awning/outside area, though. Expecting somebody not to use their site so you can use it as a thoroughfare is just nuts.
One night, some bloke was having an argument on his telephone right outside my tent. He'd moved away from his site to mine to conduct this exercise and woke me up. I found that incredibly rude. Stay on your own plot and annoy your friends, if you must conduct loud phonecalls, don't annoy strangers.
One year when we had our camper trailer & we were staying at a Winton park, we discovered our neighbour had one of his ropes well over on our site - that was bad enough but it was across our door way! We politely asked him to shift it but got the response "No-one has complained before" & refused to oblige. What a GOB!
Pat mentioned it at the office - we were given another site.
Comparing that incident with another one just last week - I was having troubles getting on to our site at Clermont. The chap behind us said he'd shift his car, enabling us to drive through.
What a difference!
I have no problems with other campers walking on the edge of my boundary, perhaps with a friendly "Hello."
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If you don't get it done today, there's always tomorrow!
As I mentioned in the generator thread most of my time is spent in informal sites in the bush and when I encounter someone camped anywhere nearby I drop in to say "Hi" but I don't simply stroll into their camp I stop and wait about 25m away and loudly call "Knock, knock - anyone home?" and repeat until they respond or I decide no one is there or they don't wish to be social in which case I go away.
I have found most people really appreciate this consideration and a number have said they will adopt the practice.
Our camps are our de facto homes and others should treat them as such.
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Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
Is it just me or do others consider it disrespectful when others walk through your site at a caravan park instead of walking around or at a minimum walking between sites if too lazy to go round. No wonder so many kids have no respect when adults who should know better set such a poor example
We booked for three nights in Kurumba and upon arriving there was a car on our little site and it was a big effort to get the next door neighbor to move it as he thought he was the camp no it all ,anyway that's my whinge for today and one of the reasons I don't go to caravan parks unless needed.
Cheers
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