geodrake said:
Two things bother me: 1) Drunks when I' sober 2) Sober people when I'm drunk ;D
No doubt....there's gotta be a "like" button on here somewhere, and I'm gonna find it!
I don't mind grumpy old (or young) folks, as long as they leave me alone. I've voiced this one before.....my peeve is the overly friendly someone that wants to stop by my campsite and spend the next 3 hours telling me their life story. 2 minutes chatting about the weather is fine....after that, move along please. I get very little downtime....what I do get is for the wife and I to decompress from life. After 5 minutes, I become one of the grumpy folks.
I'm one of those very quiet middle aged folks.....just the wife and I, no kids, no pets, and usually indoors by dark. We get enough noise and excitement in our normal life with work and living in a city. We don't bother anyone, and expect the same. That said, the guy that tells me to "be quiet", unprovoked, three times the second I back my rig in is going to get my middle finger. I run out of polite very quickly for that sort of nonsense. When I was a young tyke, momma used to say "don't holler 'til your hurt". It still applies.
We follow the rules, to the letter. They're there for a reason. If there's a need for an exception, we get permission from the camp host ahead of time. But we don't tattle on those who bend the rules either.....if it's egregious and bothering us, I'll take it up with the individual personally first. If not cooperation after that, then we go to mgt.
In all my years doing this, that has never happened. I've had one incident where a guys dog was running loose and kept crapping in my camp and he wasn't cleaning it up. I asked him nicely, he agreed to clean it up, but didn't. After a couple of days, I shoveled it up, and deposited it on the door step of his camper. He must have got the hint.....dog stayed inside the rest of the time.