Which fellow campers make your heart sink?

[Tabarnak]

You’ve worked out the perfect spot, set up, and are just settling down with a cold drink when THAT fellow camper comes and sets up next you.

Which fellow campers make your heart sink?

(in the spirit of today’s threads about other people being anti social or just not what you want on beaches , in restaurants etc etc)
(on the whole I find camping folk lovely)

Me: An enthusiastic parent producing a bubble machine / bubble wands / vats of bubble detergent that will burst all over my canvas tent wrecking the whatchamacallit properties of the cotton canvas and destroy the waterproofing.

To be fair the types who expect everyone else to tiptoe around from 6pm because their junior school age children have gone to bed are extremely annoying. Late nights playing out and toasting marshmallows is surely part of the fun. Agree about swearing and unreasonably loud or late noise though. See also snoring. I know it's not the person's fault but we were once kept awake all night by someone snoring like a freight train in a nearby tent. The relief when I saw them packing up on our first morning!

I loved camping when our son was younger & we had balls, cricket set's & BBQ etc as it's all about being outside isn't it? Always in bed by 2200 though. I remember a time 2 family's who clearly knew each other turned up opposite us & I kid you not the adults opened the boot of the car & cracked open cans of larger! This was before setting anything up, the kid's ran wild & they were up being loud & drinking until 2am, thankfully they were gone the next day.

Sounds like some people would benefit from the increasing number of adult only sites that seem to be springing up.

Groups of middle aged adults (I am that age myself with men who like to carry their voices to let everyone know how funny/ important and just great they are.

We were once near a group of teens/young adults with awful taste in (loud) music. But karma hit.

There was a car alarm going off through the night. And in the morning.... dead battery. They had left a light on.

The campsite owners gave them a jump start so they could leave.

This why we generally choose the roughly mown field and loo in the farmyard type of site.

Even better if you need a 4x4 to get to your pitch.

Yeah sorry about that, it was my sister’s birthday and she fucking loves ABBA. 😂😂😂

People with drones.
FUCK. OFF.

When we were little and my dad used to take us camping I imagine he was bloody annoying. Six rowdy children and then the man pulls out the crates of Stella out the car and THEN gets out a guitar. He can only play 10 odd songs as well.

Sound system

Anyone with music playing in any form. I'd want to cry honestly. I can't take the noise, even when it's music I might choose to listen to occasionally in the car.

Any amplified music played at any time.

Groups of men.

Family groups made up entirely of adults 50+

Or the barrows / trollies they provide because no cars on the camping field

Men who think they're the main man on the pitch who just have to let to let everyone know he's the most hilarious, loudest, dominant one there 🤢 don't know how anyone can find that attractive.

Women who can't handle their drink and turn into screeching banshees, either through laughing or arguing with their partners.

Families who spend the whole time shouting at their children instead of quietly disciplining them but I suppose they can't suddenly develop parenting skills just because they're away from home. Got to get the alcohol intake in, priorities and all that.

Kids who are like their obnoxious parents. But kids having fun and are well behaved, considerate of others, great. Love 'em.

Music that's played more for the site than for the people who brought it.

Anyone who forces their presence on others. It's that type who I go away to have a break from.

We are all fifty ish and over - friends who used to camp together when the Dc were kids and we now go without them.

What menace do we present? We never play music (don’t go to sites that allow it, in general) , we sit round the fire and chat until , oooh about 10pm, we drink moderately (But eat excessive chocolate) and are friendly to nice children!

A could of us do have fairy lights, though.

People.

I might tolerate a very quiet introvert. Might. And they mustn't snore, speak or move.

This.

😂

Anyone with a dog, especially one they haven’t put on a lead.

Ones with loads of feral, loud kids. I have kids so not bothered unless they’re allowed to scream or encroach on our space.

Ones who want to chat to us. I’m there to have a lovely time with my family and I’m really not a sociable person. I don’t want to make small talk with randomers I don’t know.

As soon as I saw the thread title I thought "bubbles".
Other than that, my family. They annoy me. A lot.

Lol you did ask for generalisations 😂

IME these groups tend to be louder and drunker than mixed aged or younger family groups.

But I did say families and you said you were a group of friends so not even describing you!

The sight of a group of teenagers with no adult in sight strikes fear into my soul, despite the fact that I once was that teenager! If camping close to others on a well populated site, anyone with an excitable dog or young children/babies.

The ones who let their children drive their car around the campsite spring to mind. It was quite a nice campsite too.

Anyone with music on speakers

As a childless person I don’t mind families. It’s when a group of families arrive that my heart sinks. The performance parenting starts, and then the adults sit around the fire drinking and getting louder and louder ignoring their children whilst the kids get feral.