Do they leave brains at home?
We have just returned from a few days at Uttoxeter Race Course club site. This is a lovely open site with wardens who can't do enough to please. With all of the rain recently the ground was soft and there are few hardstandings, (the club does not own this
site). When we arrived the warden advised us how to pitch in these conditions to protect the ground for future use. We used the mover and parked the car on the abundant space near the gate and just outside. When we left today I brought the car up ready to
mover the van upto it. Immediately a motor homer came up behind me and sat there. So off I went and had to come back round again. As we were moving the van out another came up behind and sat there revving the engine!!!!. We hitched as quickly as possible.
A solo car came past us ploughing up the grass. I wonder why they did this. There is another route out with no one manouvoring on it. All 3 drivers could see what was happening and yet chose to harrass us rather than take the other route. I was also amazed
at the number of members who ploughed the ground up by insisiting on parking alongside their caravans.
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Don't feel harassed. There is a correct and safe way to hitch up and to do it correctly means others will have to wait. They know that too but they is a minority who think they are king. On site we are all the same, take you time and do it right,
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I've seen some extraordinary things at Uttoxeter, Waffler, including someone moving a peg so they could be closer (too close) to a friend. Then arguing with the warden about it and a third vanner joining in on the side of the camper. The warden could do
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Yes you do get some odd behaviour. Or it could just be they are not paying attention. We have been hitching, car blocking the road, where there is obviously more than one route out, only to have someone drive right up to us, rather than take the other route.
As Harry's says just carry on hitching making sure you don't rush.0 -
Agree with Steve's comments especially about Harry's last sentence
!! Taking your time is not to be construed
as being awkward, just making sure everything is set up correctly
== they'd be more upset if you'd left the handbrake
on, or not got the hitch firmly located and had to start all over again !!0 -
In situations like this you need to deliberately take even more time than usual to hitch up. If the idiot continues to rev his engine impatiently, then go over and have a polite word along the lines of, "If you keep revving your engine to try and make me hitch up more quickly, then I will make sure it takes me even longer to complete than it usually does" I gaurantee the engine revving stop
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Or just say to the man in the motorhome, "Hello, are you off too? I will just be a few minutes". Altogether more polite, and better for the blood pressure.
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Or just say to the man in the motorhome, "Hello, are you off too? I will just be a few minutes". Altogether more polite, and better for the blood pressure.
Agree, this is a better way to put it to across. I suppose I get a little too annoyed with those that sit in their vehicles making their point with their right foot. Chatsworth is bad for this, not so much when leaving site but arriving on site. On a number
of occasions I've chosen a pitch just after the entrance only to have another also arriving on site behind me, revving their engines in desperation to race to their selected pitch. I make em wait
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I just block em out & do it my way(thanks Frank) it bothers me not one jot. To qualify. . . .Its only happened once
my & others safety
on the road is more important.0 -
We all have to wait for others at times. That's life on a camp site.
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When I did my advance defensive driving course the instructor told us to never brake test a tailgater but to slow down gradually to lessen the impact speed if anything should go wrong. Over the years I've used this tactic for all sorts of inpatience and
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We are all on holiday, what does it matter if we have to sit for a few minutes while somebody reverses onto their pitch. It can be quite entertaining, especially if they dont get it right first time.
Once on their pitch I would expect them to move their towcar off tue road immediately though.
K
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Surely this kind of behaviour is only an issue if you let it affect you? Personally it does not bother me at all i have had this before and i just acknowledge they are there and continue at my own pace. After all i am on holiday and i guess they are so whats
the rush.(to be fair i am actually so laid back i am almost horizontal.lol)
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Never had any problem wit people waiting for me to hitch up but we do not reverse on if there is anyone approaching. The idea of reving seems nothing more than a waste of fuel and might actualy delay you as it could cause the other person to try and hurry
up and make mistakes which ended up making him slower,No point in bad manners and it gets you nowhere in those circumstances.
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Being a bus driver Iam never suprised by other drivers impatients.
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Interesting to see the level of indignation this post is generating in some quarters.
Being motorhomers we now don't have all the palaver of hitching up, but I do recall the pain of it all.
That said, a bit of basic consideration as advocated by Wildman goes a long way.
We had the unbridled joy last year of a clown in a 4x4 push past us as we ambled towards the exit at walking pace, slew his tank across the road, get his toilet cassette out of the back of the car and then announce that I could **** well wait whilst he finished
packing up. Utterly charming.When the queue reach 5 units (no-one dared to go on the grass!), the site warden arrived and had the still un-hitched car moved.
OK, possibly an extreme example, but it's easy to understand why sometimes there is frustration, particularly on a site with a one-way system.
Sadly we seem to live in a world were consideration for others is an increasingly rare commodity.
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I just find most members on site ignorant and selfish do has I say not as I do, and if anybody tried to rush me they would be waiting a long time.
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I just find most members on site ignorant and selfish ....
I find that strange. I find most members on site are pleasant and polite.
If this forum had been available in the dark ages before I joined the CC and I had really believed that some of the opinions and behaviours advocated on here were what really happens on sites then likely we would never have joined.
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I just find most members on site ignorant and selfish ....
I find that strange. I find most members on site are pleasant and polite.
If this forum had been available in the dark ages before I joined the CC and I had really believed that some of the opinions and behaviours advocated on here were what really happens on sites then likely we would never have joined.
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In answer to the OP's question - it presupposes the existence of the said organ in the first place.
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this impatient attitude is only too rife in today's world.
most people don't have a second to wait, this does not apply only to site access roads but our roads in general.
just carry on as normal.
I don't condone taking extra time, because that will only aggravate further action from whoever.
But if your struggling to hitch up, you could ask them to help and receive the appropriate reply ?.
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