Why do people walk across other peoples pitch
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😂 Thats sounds like a typical equine. When we had our horse, the ride home was always a lot friskier than the ride out😂 Sideways sometimes, and he was often stuffed into a hedge to teach him manners.
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Oh dear. I have met people who react in that way - on Club sites , but not elsewhere. One told me that the grass strip between pitches that I was walking on was HIS grass strip.
You can alternatively greet your surprise visitor by saying, Hello, I’m Ray. Where are you from? Start a conversation. Be cheerful, Invite him back for a chat. Friendliness is allowed.
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One of the reasons I stopped using club sites (and the other one) is due to the falling standards, manners and general demeanour of clientel. I'm also not a fan of all these 'baracades' some campers erect around their pitches either. However, it's probably a good deterrant to stop people walking across your pitch.
When the Caravan Club changed it's name to a more inclusive one, the Chairman was quoted as saying the Club was preparing to welcome a whole new breed of camper - whatever they might be. Well I personally don't like the new breed of 'campers' so will choose to stay away. I can only imagine with Covid restricting everyone's travel plans, sites will be over-run with this "new breed" very few, if any, will have bothered to pick up a Site Directory and read the rules.
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Hi Euror, Well mention of Ray made me smile;
Lyrics
The truth be told, the truth be told
I'm worried about the future holds, the future holds
I'm starting to worry about Ray
The truth be told, the truth be told
I'm worried about the future holds, the future holds
I'm seriously worried about RayAnd if he was on my pitch in the past so would I! I have now learned, albeit with some lapses when provoked, to ignore it and have another drink.
This was prompted by being on a site with lines on the grass but other demarcation leading many to just take the shortest route from A to B.
I did ask a lady who walked between our windbreak and the van to please not do so again but have accepted that I cannot change others behaviour-so wheres that corkscrew!
Oh, the song was by the Hoosiers.
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Ever thought about taking a windbreak with you and erecting it on the boundary of your pitch effectively acting as a barrier? I will be doing that in future and one would hope that people cutting across your pitch would get the message.
That said - on one site in Scotland last year, the site had erected a tape barrier to stop others using a short cut to another part of the site which meant walking over our pitch - people just ducked under it. Even the evil stare did not deter them!
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The Dog must be very well trained as in not growl or bark-mayhap just a threatening look & a whispered threat as anything else will fill these threads with Harumphers & ‘outraged of wherever town’ folk🤷🏻♂️
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I know! Wrong ET
Normal times I might well cut across an empty pitch or even the grass divider between two pitches if there appears to e nobody at home either side.
I have occasionally advised somebody less able to cross the pitch when fetching water
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It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to explain.... the thoughts & expectations of a CMC member . 🤔
Basically it's pitch envy... they should have chosen your pitch but chose another instead, which turned out to be not in exactly the right place for their daily wanderings.
Taking a route through another member's pitch may save them yards.... FGS 🤔, it's not to be seen as an inconvenience, more a dare of defiance by said trespasser.
It's my belief that if only two members were on a site.... one would cross the others pitch... eventually . 😉🤭
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I only use HS pitches and there is usually a grass strip between them. So 'my pitch' is clearly defined and I would get annoyed with someone on 'my gravel' while walking on the grass strip wouldn't.
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Poor design or not, it's still downright rude to walk across someone else's pitch. It's akin to people taking a short cut through someone else's front garden to save walking an extra ten yards.
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I beg to differ there MF, I don’t rent my gardens on a daily basis🤷🏻♂️. Everything within my gardens is mine & I spend a lot of money & time keeping it as I like it. Someone/people stepping on a bit of hired Gravel/Grass is not a stress for me.
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It’s only overcrowded if you follow the crowds Ex, there are tons of places that are quiet on our Island it just takes the mindset to find them👍🏻😊
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But isn't a front garden - it's a bit of temporary parking space, just like the bits of parkng space in a supermarket or council car park. I cut across them too.
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People walking on the actual hard standing pitch is anathema to me. Bad site design can make it more prevalent but to make that an excuse is to me utterly unforgiveable. I would like to quote from a review of Forfar I made over a year ago (the site was otherwise lovely and I said so).
"The circular arrangement … does mean that people inevitably cut across the green to the loos, reception, washing up area and so on with the result that people pass between pitches regularly. Though sometimes mildly irritating this has to be accepted as fair game [when they use the grass strip], but it does mean the chances of ignorant people walking across one’s pitch is also greater than usual. Hence, presumably, the angry review further down this page. I empathise with this gentleman. For me, walking on other people’s pitches is the apex of bad site-etiquette."
Of course, for many, the grass strip is not "no man's land" as mentioned further above. Plenty occupy it for noisy al-fresco dining, or for their awning to encroach upon, or, on the other side, to park half of their car!!! Occupying the grass strip is reasonable for a quiet sit in the sun but beyond this it can be rather annoying.
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That is such a ludicrous comparison. Absolutely invalid; not the same thing at all. I should think 90% of people you ask, probably more, would have to admit to cutting across car parking spaces in a supermarket - or in any car park.
I could go on to explain why the analogy is utterly spurious, but I can sense that I would be wasting my time.
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We will be on an all grass Site in September. First time on this Site for many years. I shall start prepping now...........😂
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Well there ya go it’s healthy to disagree👍🏻. I’m one up on you as I know the crowded places & the quiet ones. You do your thing & I’ll do mine in my no crowds idylls🤟
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Thankyou that’s very true👍🏻-‘lack of imagination, fear of being alone, no sense of adventure, stuck in their ways, followers not leaders, frightened of the dark/unknown’. Many others obviously but I’m sure you understand.
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The issue there will be the your assumption as to where 'your boundary' is! A problem! Many believe this to be the gravel, the grass finger being a not so. Incidentally on many sites you may not be able to erect or place anything on these green spaces. If temporary permission is given mind don't assume it's your territory.
Also grass maintanence happens and is weather and time dependant. Expect windbreaks, sat dishes etc. to be removed for these purposes if needed. After all your placement on items in this space could be construed as a bad show as others walking across it. Im afraid the non curtious walk amongst us but if they do venture on your 'borrowed' territory a pleasant reminder is in order but don't let that retort ruin your holiday. Life is too short.
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Oh I do R2B, but it's not here, it's "over there" where the seas and rivers are not polluted with sewage, the sites spacious, uncrowded and spotless, with 5 star facilities and patrons don't walk across your pitch. As you say, it's healhy to disagree. Believe me, you're definitely not one up on me
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