We ran into some prize arsewipes at the weekend, or to be fair, there was just one of them.
We arrived at our camping spot and the site was mostly full, there were only a few places left. We parked the trailer about 10 metres from a shared fire pit.
The nearest other caravan was about 10 m in the opposite direction, they had been using the fire and their was chairs and stuff around. No problem with that shared facilities and all that.
We noticed there was some kids chairs, we have kids too, perfect. We thought. We moved a couple of chairs aside and arranged them round the fire and put 2 of our own there.
So we setup, built a nice fire in the shared ring, me and my mate took the kids and dog (on a lead and not barking) for a walk for a few hours. We left the wives alone in their chairs with a cup of tea each. Everyone happy.
When we got back my mates wife met us and said there was some trouble from the people who were camped near us.
Apparently they had "claimed" this fire and nobody else could use it
. We tried to reason with them, we tried to be friendly, but one of them was not happy at us being there. It appears he was under the impression that he had some sort of entitlement to annex parts of the park.
It's interesting to note that he never said a word to me and my mate he just sat looking unhappy, he just whinged at our wives in our absence, which speaks volumes about the man.
So we dug another fire lined it with rocks etc and settled for the night. Had a few beers etc. Nice.
They were sitting round their "claimed" fire and we had ours. No problem to me.
They were playing some music, so were we. I walked over a few times to make sure our music wasn't too loud and you couldn't hear it when theirs was playing.
We tried to be polite, considerate, reasonable people.
The next morning after breakfast we set off with the kids and dog to play on our boat in the river. As I was getting a bottle of water from the tent I heard whingey arse saying "If someone else has a radio nobody else should have one, it's an unwritten rule"
I assumed (correctly) that he was complaining about us listening to music (which was low enough not to disturb them).
So he whines at our wives and moans about us when he thinks we are not there, getting the picture.
If our music was too loud, which I don't believe it was, would it be too hard to say "mate, can you turn that down?" Maybe he just didn't like Neil Young.
I came out of out tent smiling to myself at the hilarity of the prick and his abrupt silence then his two "mates" both made eye-contact with me and rolled their eyes. I suspect he does this sort of thing all the time.
A wise man once said the a superior man does not engage in quarrelsome behaviour. He may have been right. 20+ years of Thai kickboxing has taught me a few other ways of dealing with people.
On this occasion I chose to heed the words of Confucius and went away to have fun with my family.
On the way home my wife told me that he had actually been verbally abusive and threatening towards them when he demanded that we were not to sit round his fire. She didn't tell my these things when we were there as she knew what would happen.
So spineless or misogynistic, or both. He ruined his own weekend for himself and his long suffering family & friends.
Why can't people just be nice?
