BruceStarkey wrote: I don't get it! What is it that people don't understand about rental agreements. It's yours for the term specified and it doesn't come with a rider saying "but if someone should wish to take a shortcut through your site please consider this agreement null and void". I've never had folks from one of the "inside" rooms at a motel simply strole through my outside room on their way to the parking lot or pool. Why is this so hard to understand? It's rude behaviour in the extreme. Now, if I'm on the site between some elderly person using a walker and the public washroom, they'd probably get an invite to cut through, but at my discretion. Kids or others, camping's about enjoying the outdoors and the exercise etc., walk a bit further to work of the twinkies and soda pops! Enough already.
What campground are you at or have you been at with a rental agreement?
I do avoid the campites right next to the path going to showers, bathroom or any path leading to beach, lake, ect. People get in a hurry, even if they are curtious most of the time they forget in their haste to get where they are going.
My real frustration with the issue is we have a 110 lb dog who doesn't like. Then he starts pacing knocks over a chair we get him calmed down and chilled back out and here comes another kid running through. It has nothing to do with the generation it has to do with your level of respect and caring.
It would also bug me if they unpluged my power cause it is just bothersome. We teach our children and thier friends and our scouts - boys and girls not to do it.
RandACampin: Sorry but nearly every one that I've been to where I've snowbirded gave me a rental agreement outlining my reposibilities to maintain my site and ALSO the rules of the park, you know, the stuff like picking up your dogs poop, or no generators, or even when quiet times begin and end and, oh yeah, even sometimes, not encroaching on somone else's site. The landord tenant laws may apply in many states and provinces which requires that the license plate, number in party, names be recorded, but is that really the point? We're talking simple respect here and, for those that don't get that, well, I guess that's also to be expected today.
You folks who don't mind others walking through your site un-invited, that's fine, just don't castigate those who do believe in the politeness of respecting space that has been rented in good faith for the exclusive use thereof. As I stated in another post on this same topic, I was taught as a young camper to not even wander between tents in Provincial Parks as it was considered rude way back then (50's) and I've carried that kind of respect forward into my RV'ing days. I suppose it's unreasonable, given todays lack of respect on all fronts, to expect camping to remain the last bastion of decency.
I also believe a lot of this rhetoric is simply "chumming" to see how far this thread will go. S'long.
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Same thing happened to us this past weekend. We pulled in on Saturday (charity event on Friday night) and were not even parked when a group of kids tramps through.
Then later in the day, when the parties at the sites on both sides and behind us return, we get ALL of them coming through our site, moving chairs to clear THEIR path and walking under our awning.
I - of course - had to say something to them and got a couple of nasty looks, but from that point, they walked around - as they should.
I would never do that to someone else, even if they are just "renting" the site.
Yes it is about courtesy and respect and for those who 'don't get it' we can only hope that their children are able to learn from others.
One time when we were camping, mom & dad & 2 children were asked by DH (not a small guy) to use the road. An hour later that request was totally ignored as they cut thru again. When I got up from a nap, DH informed me that when the family sat down to eat, he promptly walked over with his beer and sat at their picnic table with them. And guess what?! No more problem after that! And whole family learned a lesson.
luck would have it wrote: You guys kill me with your "Oh it's the generation" BS
I'm 28. My wife and I have been RVing for about 6 years and 2 TT. We have a young boy and another boy on the way. We are both VERY respectful of others.
I lock the doors on my truck form the inside at night rather than the Keyless entry so the headlights don't turn on and shine in somebody's windows or tent. We don't let our dog bark. We don't play our music loud enough for anyone outside of our site to hear it, and we DON'T WALK THROUGH ANYONE ELSE'S CAMPSITE. When my kids are old enough to run around on their own, they WILL NOT walk/ride through anyone else's site!! It is very rude and disrespectful.
It has nothing to do with the generation. It's how you raise your kids. The kids that are bad eggs today were raised by the generation that is 35-45 years old today. And that generation was raised by the generation that is 55-65 today and so on.
So I ask this question. Those of you who said you NEVER walk through peoples campsites; Do your kids? How about your grandkids?
You are perfectly correct. Singing: Aaaaaaaaaammmmmmeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
layla wrote: Tolerance is posting here asking opinions or saying "I'm sure you are a nice person, but we come here for solitude and to get away from it all. If it's not too much trouble, would you please walk around next time?" rather than "Get off my #$$^%&* campsite!!!"
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