Random people walking over others' pitches
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Agree Steve. I don’t think it’s because there are lots of new Members, there have always been a few folks that don’t have an inbuilt measure of right from wrong, no different from any other walk of life.
I can’t help thinking that our society gets a tiny bit more selfish and intolerant though, a creeping dilution of caring enough about ourselves and others as well as the environment around us. One of my dislikes of TV and other media in the main is the amount of bad behaviour, sensationalism and creating a peep show out of the behaviour of others. It can be hard sometimes putting up with really bad behaviour you witness, but nowadays the reaction even a friendly “please don’t do that” might cause isn’t worth the risk in some instances.
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My concern with having a "quiet word" with anybody these days, for whatever reason, is that you don't know how people will react. Although we hope it wouldn't happen if you suddenly get an adverse/aggressive reaction from someone that causes more stress than the initial transgression? It is fairly obvious in life that many people don't have much sense of Spatial Awareness and we can all probably think of examples of where we witness that. 99% of this problem can be designed out of campsites as others have said. Even then it's not foolproof as Margaret witnessed at Moreton in Marsh last week. We were in a cul de sac and behind our pitch was the path to reception separated by a three bar fence, probably four feet high. The people in the motorhome behind us, probably in their forties, returning from a day out, climbed over the fence rather than walk another 150 yards!!! It had no impact on us but it was just a surprise.
David
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I’d still love it if someone can explain to me how a person walking on a small bit of grass(or other) that you rent for a tiny part of your life takes away from you or hurts you in any way. I’m genuinely stumped by the whole thing. It’s going full Lord of the manor thing-it isn’t yours, you don’t suffer🤷🏻♂️. It’s just a thing that some folk suffer from I think.
please will someone explain how & in what way it hurts them?🤷🏻♂️0 -
That made me smile DK. 😁 It has to be an easily climbed fence nowadays for me, the spirit is occasionally willing, but the ageing bones are more wary! 😂
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Yes as I said elsewhere the grass strip is no man's land and doesn't bother me at all. Sorry is is that no-person's land.
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For me, and bare in mind I am female, I don’t like others I don’t know getting too close to me Rocky. I have had a couple of encounters in the past with men who thought I might be interested in their genitalia, one particularly strange individual who crept up on me while I was reading, leapt up tackle in hand and shouted “boo”. (He found it hard to run with his trousers round his ankles, and got more than he bargained for, as I was young and fit and frightened him more than he frightened me.) I am also super wary at the moment of dog thieves, although our old lad didn’t ought to be a prime target. Not particularly what you’d expect on a Club Site, but that instinct is there now, and as I stick to prescribed routes around Sites, unless well away from other outfits, expect others to do the same. So for me, it’s a protective instinct. I doubt that you would come across any female sadly who doesn’t have a tiny bit of this wariness in them. Sometimes it’s reactive to something that has happened, sometimes it’s learned growing up.
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No mans land grass strip? a Range Rover from a C/van on a pitch some distance behind us has now twice used the grass strip between us and the C/van next door as a way of not having to use the one way system. they have just done it again this morning
I think words may be exchanged when they get back ,our dog was in the shade under our c/van luckily
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It tends to be me who reacts as well AD, rather than OH. I find quiet, but meaningful words, trying to explain why something isn’t a good idea has the better effect. Wading in like a screaming banshee just ups any tension, but I am still wary. The mildest of individuals can over react when caught red handed doing something they shouldn’t have been doing.....
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You need some Caltrops JV, or quietly let down two of their tyres. One isn’t good enough, they might have a spare. Two usually needs the rescue and recovery......🤣
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Thank you TDA you are the first one who has answered it fully as opposed to-‘it’s rude’, ‘I paid for it not them’, ‘it’s mine’. I appreciate the insight👍🏻. The positive thing is-the Dinosaur age is slowly coming to an end. Evolution will always pass some by but I’m reliably informed the age of ‘man is good woman bad’ is slowly runnning its course. My niece is the head of a Dept that has men much older than her & younger. She still enjoys her work👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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hedges are ok if they are of a reasonable height, one of your pictures the hedge for sure would be a possible sun blocker, great if it is July/August in somewhere very hot but could be worse than having a sunblocker on the adjacent pitch, or someone walking over your pitch, personally i have a very large klaxon that i use on my bike, people soon get the message
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Are we really such a bunch of cowards.
If someone does something that you don't like, then ask them politely not to do it again. Its what I do.
If you really don't like to confront people then put something in their way to stop them from cutting across your pitch.
I had to do this once in Spain, we had a hedge each side of us but our pitch backed onto another pitch. We were on the end of a row with a path to the facilities just the other side of one of the hedges. All was well until a Spanish family moved onto the pitch behind us.
Even if we were sat out their 2 children would walk through the pitch to the facilities.
My solution was to put the bikes along the back of the pitch one after the other so they couldn't get by. Washing lines are a good way of blocking access as are bbq's and chairs.
According to my children and gkids all I have to do is give them the 'look' 😂😂😂
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We are at present on a club site that is just about full, but no-one will be walking between other person's pitches as there is an 8ft high bank full of nettles behind the majority of pitches. Members are passing in front of our van, only because we are pitched up directly in front of the water point. Arriving when we did we had a limited choice of pitches, but this one suited us fine so no complaints.
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For me, that's caravanning at its worst. No thank you.
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It looks like a festival Jill, a big one, possibly Glastonbury. Bit different, you go for something else than a nice pitch and a view. Mind, one or two of the less salubrious East Coast border on this at times.
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I think I spot my van….
I can remember being on a site like that in the early 70s. We could shake hands with our neighbours through the windows.😎
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"Pass te fire-extinguisher, please, Old Boy".
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I know even the adults don't seem to understand.
We had some Danes moving pitch at Amfora one year, they thought it perfectly acceptable to march through our pitch with all there belongings as it was the shortest route.
I soon pointed out that I didn't think it was acceptable.
Our Dutch neighbours said "you english are so territorial" does it matter. As I was sunbathing I thought it did.
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