Quote: Originally posted by LobeyDosser on 30/10/2014
The whole camping/caravanning scene is changing and has been for a few years.
Sharing and camaraderie has gone from "we are all in this together" to "this is our space, keep out" and I am not sure why it has changed.
Perhaps a more diverse type of person is camping these days.
We will always find the stalwarts who are still looking for camping/caravanning the way it used to be, myself included and there are still sites that promote this ideal, but increasingly there are those who have no concept of traditional values and it is these people who do mot care about anything around them, as long as they are happy with their pitch.
I would agree with you from our experience. We've just returned from a Hoburne site and met with a mixed reception. On arrival 2 chaps from pitches opposite immediately came to help me get our van on pitch as it was a bit of a squeeze. Then later that week our two little ones ventured a few feet onto the neighbouring pitch behind us to say hello to their dog which was left outside attached to a spike. They were met with ' get off my pitch ' and he then immediately erected a wind break to create his very own great wall of china!! charming, they are only 6 and 9 and love dogs.
From our experience the sites which have hedge boundaries to separate pitches seem worse than those with no defined area for this type of behaviour.
Checkley1973 - not a great way to talk to kids I agree - he could have been nicer. BUT, please teach your kids not to go onto other folks pitch - your children might love dogs, but not all dogs love children - as evidenced by the horrific stories we read and hear about.
I love chatting to other caravanners and dont mind who walks over my pitch but I really dont like it when children go near my dog without asking. He's old, frequently in pain with his various ailments (despite medication), getting deaf and can't be bothered. He would be startled if a strange child started bothering him, especially if he didnt see or hear the approach! He's never bitten a child yet but i'm not daft enough to think it could never happen.
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Tried to help a fellow caravaner on our last trip away wont bother again in future, They was struggling putting up there 260 porch awning, so off I went to offer any help I could Great they said I was busy feeding the awning into the rail which as you well know can sometimes be a wee bit tight, anyway I thought the van owners were pulling as I was feeding!!!!!!! NO they were sat in the chairs having a cuppa nearly blew several gaskets at seeing them but just walked away back to our van and not even a thank you so in future sorry but NO WAY HOSAY
Quote: Originally posted by weaversbrook on 02/11/2014
Tried to help a fellow caravaner on our last trip away wont bother again in future, They was struggling putting up there 260 porch awning, so off I went to offer any help I could Great they said I was busy feeding the awning into the rail which as you well know can sometimes be a wee bit tight, anyway I thought the van owners were pulling as I was feeding!!!!!!! NO they were sat in the chairs having a cuppa nearly blew several gaskets at seeing them but just walked away back to our van and not even a thank you so in future sorry but NO WAY HOSAY
That is just unbelievably taking the wee!!
Why would anyone do that?
If it was the case they hadn't a clue, they should have stood watching, but that sounds as if the have no clue about interacting with people.
It sounds as if they thought you were a warden or something. Bit of a prickly situation
Its amusing how us helpful souls tend to react badly to those we decide don't really deserve the help we have given them. Those of us of a practical nature who are willing & able to offer help expect those who we help to be as practical as us when of course if they were they might not need the help in the first place.
Its fair to say that practical folks can become exasperated with folks less practical & we tend not to suffer downright idiots gladly. We may even vow never to offer help again, but of course we always do.
Definitely agree with the kids not going onto someone elses pitch to stroke a dog. My dogs are daft as brushes, and have been known to try to lick you to death! but with hot weather, excitement etc., they may just have one day that they are not pleased to see a stranger be it child or adult. So if I see children coming over I always tell them NOT to stroke my dogs unless im there as well. I have had kids coming into my awning to stroke our dogs and on that one occassion lied and said my dogs dont like being stroked by people they dont know.
I woke up in my caravan to find a strangers 3 and 6 year old kids watching me,freaked me out.Don't know who they were but their parents obviously werent bothered,one of my dogs hates kids,she was under the bed glaring at them