Funniest experience on a Campsite

On a seaside pitch I watched this bloke pull up and pitch a few pitches away, an hour later he gets out this professional looking blow up canoe and proceeds to load it with loads of stuff for fishing I think.. about two hours of faffing about gets to the shore edge and jumps in his canoe and the first wave sends him tumbling over and over, back to his van puts it all away and leaves…😆🤣🤣
 
Sat on the site Sandy Balls, when a rather young and very attractive lady came out of a small tent on the pitch next to me. She was in a very short nightie thing and, what turned out to be, a small g string pair of grollies on. She proceeded to bend over in front of the poor chap opposite her and flashed all her nethers for him and the world to see. The poor guy must have found every excuse to stay outside his caravan awning with his mouth wide open in dismay.

She didn’t batter an eyelid at what she was doing and then took down the tent and loaded it in her car, for us all to see, before heading off to the shower block. SWMBO said it was disgusting, to which I fully agreed and did the supportive tutting and head shaking while glued to the window 😂😅🤣🤣🤣😇
 
Was on the campsite at Savigny-les-beaune, chap struggling to put up small tent getting increasingly angry. He stormed off, came back with a hacksaw and chopped off 3 inches from one pole of his brand new tent. Would loved to see what happened if his next pitch was flat🤣

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On a site in Belgium when a motorhome pulled in by the next pitch.

After consulting a hand held compass and surveying the sky he pulled in with his hab door facing the sun.

Three hours later, when the sun had passed over his m/h he moved his chairs, table and windbreak, and backed off the pitch, turned around and parked up again with his door facing the sun once more.

The next morning he did it all again after the sun rose, only to move again in the afternoon. He did that on three consecutive days before moving on.

I could almost understand him wanting to face the sun but, on each occasion, he rolled out his awning for shade!:unsure:
 
Only a couple of days ago there was a thread about holding down awnings: Peggy Pegs were favoured by several.
From their website:

Once the Peggy Peg grips even though it isn’t completely screwed into the ground it will hold and secure your camping equipment (sometimes pre drilling might be useful-especially in winter).

Gordon
(my emphasis)
 
I love watching people on campsites :giggle:

Last year in the New Forest, just after lockdown, we were spoilt for choice.

First a caravan turned up with absolutely every accessory known to man. He set it all up with his free-standing solar panels neatly arranged at the front of his van - it all looked very impressive. It's a shame they were facing the opposite direction of the sun.

Then a guy turned up who had obviously never camped before in his life. I would guess a City banker, with a beautiful new bell tent (new everything), an amazing outdoor kitchen, I was glued to watching this setup. This guy was immaculate - perfect clothes, perfect long hair, he was polished in everyway and when finished the whole scene looked like a picture from a magazine. Then the rain started.

By the time he left (2 days later) he didn't look so polished. I doubt any of that kit was ever used again.

Then another caravan turned up. This one parked on a slope (I got a drink and a snack ready to watch this unfold).

Still attached to his car, he proceeded to set everything up. The suspense was killing me. After an hour or so, it finally happened. He unhooked the van from his towbar. Off down the hill it went with family running after it. I was in tears :LOL:

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maison said:
On a site in Belgium when a motorhome pulled in by the next pitch.

After consulting a hand held compass and surveying the sky he pulled in with his hab door facing the sun.

Three hours later, when the sun had passed over his m/h he moved his chairs, table and windbreak, and backed off the pitch, turned around and parked up again with his door facing the sun once more.

The next morning he did it all again after the sun rose, only to move again in the afternoon. He did that on three consecutive days before moving on.

I could almost understand him wanting to face the sun but, on each occasion, he rolled out his awning for shade!:unsure:
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Whats the betting he was under strict orders.... orders... that shall be....
 
We stayed on a site at Kimmeridge Bay a few years back, and across the way from us were tuggers that had old Vauxhall Cavalier hatchback.
Each morning the guy would place their toilet cassette in the back of their car and drive the 35 yards to the elsan point and then drive it back again after emptying.
If that was not bad enough, they came back from their day's outing in their car and had obviously clobbered the driver's back rear quarter of the car, as he stripped out the interior panels
and proceeded to thump the hell out of the rear quarter for the rest of the afternoon.
Off they trundled the next morning for their day out only to return later that day with this time the passenger's rear quarter stuffed in, so we were again treated to an afternoon of entertainment
watching his antic as an amateur panel beater.
 
Reallyretired said:
Saw one chap get out an electric lawnmower and do his pitch, although the grass was OK as it was. He also had a load of plants in pots. The weight must have been considerable. Tugger.
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We were on a site at Beadnell when the peace and quiet was disrupted by the sound of a generator starting up, this was then overshadowed by a full size Dyson Hoover being used to clean inside the awning and van !
 
jockaneezer said:
We were on a site at Beadnell when the peace and quiet was disrupted by the sound of a generator starting up, this was then overshadowed by a full size Dyson Hoover being used to clean inside the awning and van !
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Bit like a feather duster - its for using not for show....!

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Was on a site last week and a tugger pulled up and he'd got his car registration number plastered all over the van in Black on Green.
He had a regulation size top left at the front and half size bottom right. Nearside full size top right and small bottom left, Rear Official number plate plus an additional one top right then offisde large one on the top left small one bottom right. I'd put money on it that he'd got one one the roof.

I think he was scared someone might steal it!!!!!
 
PP Bear said:
Sat on the site Sandy Balls, when a rather young and very attractive lady came out of a small tent on the pitch next to me. She was in a very short nightie thing and, what turned out to be, a small g string pair of grollies on. She proceeded to bend over in front of the poor chap opposite her and flashed all her nethers for him and the world to see. The poor guy must have found every excuse to stay outside his caravan awning with his mouth wide open in dismay.

She didn’t batter an eyelid at what she was doing and then took down the tent and loaded it in her car, for us all to see, before heading off to the shower block. SWMBO said it was disgusting, to which I fully agreed and did the supportive tutting and head shaking while glued to the window 😂😅🤣🤣🤣😇
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can you tell me where this site was please?

I'm looking to book.
 
Bernie P said:
Was on a site last week and a tugger pulled up and he'd got his car registration number plastered all over the van in Black on Green.
He had a regulation size top left at the front and half size bottom right. Nearside full size top right and small bottom left, Rear Official number plate plus an additional one top right then offisde large one on the top left small one bottom right. I'd put money on it that he'd got one one the roof.

I think he was scared someone might steal it!!!!!
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He would be pissed of if the car were stolen first.
 
Parked up opposite a German in Spain for three months and he hadn’t moved his motorhome . Then one morning he and his wife jumped into the front seats , started up and immediately pulled off unfortunately he was still attached to his awning . I was so shocked that I could not shout out just sort of pointed to his side but by then it was tangled mess .

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On an aire in France we sat watching as about five French men who were sitting chatting and drinking outside their campers and berated a local youth who arrived and rode his noisy moped around the aire several times. They were really giving him verbal accompanied by shaking fists for quite a while. He rode off and I thought that was the end of it. Not so, about ten minutes later he retuned with a lady who I took to be his mum, she really gave the motorhomers a piece of her mind shouting and I guess sweating for several minutes. The funny part was none of the French chaps replied, they just scurried back inside their campers and shut the doors. They didn't come out again that evening.
 
I think there quite a few newbies out and about last year.
First site- the person had paid for a hard standing and decided to park his Audi on that and managed to place his van on the only molehill on the whole site- it was at a dreadful angle.
Second site- person unhitching their caravan on a slope with the car uphill- the van rolled to the bottom of the hill.
Another van unhitched and then put their rear jacks down- the van was sloping back to front- he could have wound his jockey wheel down to level it up, but didn't.

Of the two vans that were unlevel, I have no idea how they managed to get a decent nights sleep- I had no other choice other than parking on a slope when I went to Oulton Park- it ruined my weekend and I wont go back there. I suspect there will be lots of vans and tents for sale this year as people may not have had great experiences.

There were loads of other "instances"- i think over the years I have probably made quite a few errors, but over time you work it out.
 
In the Lakes we watched as a couple & small child arrived in a car towing a trailer tent. It was clear from the body language of the 'Mrs' that she did not want to go camping. The guy struggled single handed to level & set up the trailer tent while his partner stood and watched. The crowning glory came when he attached the awning to the trailer tent, erected it's frame and came to peg it down. It was only then he discovered that he had zipped the awning on inside out......and all the guy ropes were inside the awning.

In Denmark we once watched in horror as an italian motorhome set off from their pitch without unhooking the mains cable. There was a bang as the cable was ripped out of the side of the motorhome, to be followed by much shouting and arm waving as the poor bloke was scolded in public by his partner.

I almost did the same thing in Germany........just stopped before the cable came under tension.......
 
Just smiffy said:
On a seaside pitch I watched this bloke pull up and pitch a few pitches away, an hour later he gets out this professional looking blow up canoe and proceeds to load it with loads of stuff for fishing I think.. about two hours of faffing about gets to the shore edge and jumps in his canoe and the first wave sends him tumbling over and over, back to his van puts it all away and leaves…😆🤣🤣
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On a mixed Fun/Facts/Motor Roamers Meet at the Odissea Camperstop in Denia, one new Brit arrival to the site asked his wife to watch him back whilst he reversed. She was motioning him back, but became distracted by someone speaking to her. She continued to motion him back whilst chatting, when he suddenly hit a brand spanking new Burstner C Class, thereby creasing the bonnet. :whatthe:
The Brit sh1t himself when the chunky muscular owner suddenly appeared. :whatthe: He was was 6ft tall and 6ft between the eyes, and turned out to be a member of Belgium's Special Forces. :LOL:

Cheers,

Jock. :)

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Don’t know if Glastonbury counts but in days of yore we rented it and it was a days entertainment watching people put brand new or old n tattered tents up .. one group put the outer up then tried to get the inner over it - one small party had poles for a circular dome tent and canvas for the ridge type. Best was lad who turned up late in day rolled self in canvas lay down for a sleep xxx
 
Two on Tour said:
We stayed on a site at Kimmeridge Bay a few years back, and across the way from us were tuggers that had old Vauxhall Cavalier hatchback.
Each morning the guy would place their toilet cassette in the back of their car and drive the 35 yards to the elsan point and then drive it back again after emptying.
If that was not bad enough, they came back from their day's outing in their car and had obviously clobbered the driver's back rear quarter of the car, as he stripped out the interior panels
and proceeded to thump the hell out of the rear quarter for the rest of the afternoon.
Off they trundled the next morning for their day out only to return later that day with this time the passenger's rear quarter stuffed in, so we were again treated to an afternoon of entertainment
watching his antic as an amateur panel beater.
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Omg unbelievable 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
Motorhome drives up onto levelling ramps but goes a bit too far and almost drives over the top of the ramps.
The tyres are just hanging over the top, half on half off.
Selects reverse gear and with lots of revs and clutch slipping, attempts to reverse back as obviously he doesn't want to drive over the top.
Suddenly the wheels spin and send both levelling blocks flying across the site.
Lots of people standing about and they all had a good laugh as the red faced driver emerged from the cab to retrieve the blocks and try again.

PS - I was that driver. In my defence it was 5 years ago and only the second time I had used the levellers!
 
We had been on a campsite somewhere down in Devon for nearly a week and a couple turned up and proceeded to set up their tent next to us. Everything they then proceeded to do seemed to be for the sole purpose of inflicting maximum annoyance on us and others around. Anyway, another couple then arrived to set up on the other side of the 1st couple. They were almost as annoying with one of the teenaged kids apparently learning to play the guitar, dogs running off leads, etc.

We were leaving very early the next day so just before leaving, I popped a copy of the following note under the corner of both their tents;

Hello you two!
We couldn't help noticing the signs that like us, you are also swingers. Please do pop over with a bottle or 2 one evening this week and lets have some fun together
Love Mark and Tracey
xx

I still wonder what happened after to this day, but hope it was embarrassing rather than eventful!

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