Who argues?
Something i noticed a lot of last weekend when we were away in the wobbler!
I wont say the site incase anyone on here was there. But i noticed a LOT of couples arguing! Reversing, setting up, packing up, awnings, dog walking.
Is it something my and my O/H will develope over time as we're still new at it? lol.
If there was something we disagreed on we'd think or talk it through, if something went wrong we'd shrug our shoulders and laugh. I also accept there is no better map reader than my o/h so directions are never even an issue.
So who else has bust ups on site? 
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Well, we're still holding hands after nearly 40 years.
We both pitch in (pun intended) and just get the caravan up and running as quickly and efficiently as possible. OH is great at directing me in when reversing, yes we still do that as no motor mover, and on the road she's spot on most of the time. We even laughed when she directed me down a one way street in a Spanish village that got narrower and narrower and the 'van ended up on both pavements as residents came out to watch the fun and games. We made it through!
Some people are only happy being miserable but they aren't us.
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The first week in March and the first week in November. Two weeks when we tend to argue, the first one, when we are setting up the van for the season and planning how to get the site ready, and the second is the opposite, packing up the site and striking camp. More bickering than arguing I guess, and it normally ends up with great laughter.
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Not us but then we're motorhomers which means setting up and departing with no awning reduces or removes the cause of some arguments. We're both of an age where we find arguments pointless.
If you'd have asked us in our youth as caravanners, then we did argue and the subsequent sulks would last a day or so!
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On site, the bickering between couples when siting the caravan and erecting an awning can be a source of entertainment for those sitting on their loungers enjoying the sunshine. , especially when the vocal output reaches peak levels.
Fortunately after those tasks are completed , domestic harmony is generally recovered.
Cheers...........K
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They do say that an awning is a divorce-in-a-bag!
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I think it's sad that some people feel the need to argue over something so trivial as siting a van on pitch. I don't want to witness them airing their differences in public. What happened to behaving with a bit of dignity? That goes for both the perpetrators and the onlookers.
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Was that me? Nah that normal!
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I must confess that wrestling the ducking stool out from under the fixed bed is something of a chore.
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Absolutely no need for any couples to shout and bawl at each other when they are in public no matter what simple tasks they are doing. They are perhaps in the wrong hobby or in the wrong relationship. Or perhaps just want to draw attention to themselves. They attract the attention of other campers and a few adverse and humerous comments among the audience.
Cheers..........K
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Provided it is not vituperative or excessively loud, one should be allowed to disagree in public.
When I am in the wrong (always) MOH (who is never wrong) and I tend to agree an hour or so later with a glass of plonk.
The rest of the site can then settle down and peace reigns.
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Nothing better than a nice warm day sitting outside the van with a glass of red and a caravan pulls up across from you and they drag out an awning Billy Smart would be envious of. I always say to the other half, the afternoon matinee is about to start. It's fun to watch the arguments and disagreements as things are pulled or pushed, with the added tension they are being watched ;-)
It also surprises me when you see the odd couple where the husband does everything and the wife sits in the car until the van is on pitch and the steadies are down, when she moves from car to van and watches as the awning is erected. Don't see it often but when we do always makes me think I would be having a word.
As for us we argue all the time but never when pitching up. We both have tasks, even when taking the car off the back of the motorhome we both know exactly what we are doing and get on with it. Only time it goes wrong is when someone comes across to talk and distracts you. That gets me onto something else. Why is it you can be on a site for a week and a person never takes you on but the day you are leaving they want to be your best friend and chat forever when all you want to do is pack up and leave?
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I never had problems with that. It was always agreed that I would put the awning up single handed while she'd get the dinner ready and I'd still be doing it now after over 35 years if she were still alive. Besides, as she was only 5' but I could almost reach the awning rail along the roof it seemed to be the most logical division of tasks.
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