AIBU to wonder why people sit so close on an empty beach?

[Chefpig]

On a quiet beach, there are some fishermen at the shoreline, me at one end of the beach and a family with two small kids around 30 feet away. Along came a woman with two kids and she has plonked herself down five feet from the family. No indication they know each other. I know people do this all the time but why? Plenty of other places to sit.

Really annoys me - the best thing about a big empty beach is the chance to get away from it all, then someone plonks themselves right next to you. I think it must be that must be that humans, on a evolutionary level, are social animals - but not all of us!

We had it camping once - camped in a huge, completely empty campsite, no marked pitches, only ones there. It was lovely. Went off for the day to find when we came back that the one other person that had arrived while we were out had pitched his tent so close to ours that his guy ropes crossed ours! What was that all about?

I loathe people who do this. Like people who sit one seat away from you in a nearly empty cinema. It’s so weird.

So many people are weirdos. Cinema weirdos, beach weirdos, camping weirdos, car parking weirdos. Either they get off on crowding people and making them uncomfortable by invading their space, or they're so insecure that they think latching onto strangers for security is a normal thing to do.

They're the same people who park next to you in an empty car park. I don't get it.

We do this because we don’t sit on the beach we just play in the sea.

I find the person with the most flamboyant umbrella and chuck our towels and crap nearish (15 feet or so away) to them so we know where our stuff is.