The Shame!

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Last summer myself and DS 3 AND DD 7 (at the time) went camping to a beautiful place in the South of England.

We had a woodland pitch and were surrounded by trees and a short wall with a steep hill behind it.

Anyway, cut this story short, in the middle of the night DD needed to pee and it was too dark to navigate to the toilet or see very much at all in fact. I led her outside of the tent and down a bit to pee in the bushes :/ bad momma She cleaned herself up using tissue paper and asked where she could put the used tissue, we had no bin to hand and I told her to pop it on the wall for the morning and I would clean it when the sun comes up.

Anyway the next morning I could see that the sheet of tissue had blown off the wall and into the trees below, no biggy I thought but didn't give it a 2nd thought.

Anyway, fast forward 1 year and I just emailed to book at the same campsite. Here is the reply I received:

"We wont be taking any bookings from you, as after you left last time, we had to clear up a lot of tissues and wet wipes from over the wall of the pitch. We had to climb over a pick off the tissues which were hanging from the branches. Not nice to do and dangerous as well."

I am MORTIFIED

It was only one sheet of paper, we certainly did not leave wet wipes and tissues behind unless daughter copied her terrible mummy and continued to do this on the other nights

AIBU to think it is a bit harsh banning us from the camp site?!

I detest littering and genuinely feel awful!

Oops, just no remembered you just went straight outside the tent - but even so, you'd have needed some sort of light?

Wow, they really don't want you back, do they?

Imaging their little office, with a note against your name warning everyone not to let you make another booking. That tree picking exercise clearly was grim

I think it was quite nice of tgem to leave it and say nothing at the time, but yes - make a note in case you came back.

And you really thought it would still be there in the morning?

Blimey - seems extreme for one sheet of loo roll - was it covered in poo? I must saw if I saw the toilet paper in a tree I wouldn't have thought 'no biggie' - I would have been embarrassed at my nocturnal bluriness and picked it up.

There has to be more to this

No way would they turn your money down for 1 sheet of bog roll

Anyway, how did they know it was you?

surely you had a bin bag in the tent - put it in there - buy and camping loo and send the site an apology

I would hate camping next to people who left pissy paper lying around

I camp on my own with 3 kids - we have this worth every penny

I was planning on clearing up the next morning

Yes, I know. Why didn't you? You expected someone else to do it for you.

You're a right idiot for going camping without a torch.

If you go to another campsite take with you a bucket for nighttime tent wees, or one of those bucket with a seat and lid things (tip down toilet in morning not outside tent!) or travel johns.

Also did she have a poo? Otherwise why was so much toilet paper used that it could blow away and catch in a tree?

I have one of these www.mothercare.com/Potette-Plus-Fold-Away-Travel-Potty-and-Trainer---Blue/957870,default,pd.html - not just for DS, but I can use it standing up in tent, just hold under, do business (obviously not no 2s ), wipe, chuck loo roll in bag and then tie whole thing up for disposal! No walking across wet fields at 3am!

You need a small portable potty

Am I the only person here who pees in the bushes (on country walks, not generally) and doesn't use paper?

You just sort of shake dry, surely?

I was thinking that, Revolting! You're not the only one!!

Am amazed that there are children who "wouldn't pee in a bush if I told her to" - mine do it all the time and so do I !

I can't pee in bushes even if I wanted to. I've tried, and I can't, unless I'm about to burst. It's too breezy.

Nope definitely not the only one, I've done it! Kind of like a zumba shake.

There's been many a time I've been out with dd and it would've been so much easier for me to hold her over a grid or a patch of grass but she just won't do it, instead she holds it til she says her tummy hurts and insists on using the toilet or the potty only.

Am I the only person here who pees in the bushes (on country walks, not generally) and doesn't use paper?

Yup you yup. Would never use paper for a wild wee unless it was a 'dig a hole' situation if proper wild camping.

Finding toilet paper 'hidden' under rocks etc is fucking rancid.

I wouldn't take one small child to the toilet block, while leaving one or more other small children sleeping in the tent unattended.

Having said that, I would take a bucket, with a liner and some cat litter inside, and have it ready at the door of the tent for any such nocturnal needs.

If you all enjoyed camping, don't let this stop you taking your DCs on other trips, OP.

I hope the campsite haven't sent a warning to other campsites about your nocturnal urinations, they might ban you too! :-) only joking.
I think it's abit OTT tbh.
They must realise a lot of people take a wild wee in the bushes, par for the course with camping surely. It seems daft to blame one person (unless they have banned others too).
This reminds me of people who buy a house near a church then moan about ringing of the bells.

Shame on OP

Absolutely creased. I can imagine I would have done something equally skanktastic at 4am.

I don't know! It was cold, it was dark, I was anxious. And DD needed a pee!

No doubt I will burn in hell for this!

wee in the bushes, par for the course with camping surely no it REALLY isn't campsites have toilets and tents are close together - weeing next to other peoples tents is not nice

there are buckets, camping toilets, potties and all sorts of other options - which when camping with children people would surely consider?

it's nasty and unecessary

there must be more to this..like the fact that it was being done nightly and copious amounts of shitty loo roll was picked out of the trees and human waste found on your pitch etc. They wouldn't refuse your money unless you did something really minging.

I assure you it was just one tissue with wee on, absolutely no shit involved!