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The Five Best Ways to Annoy Campground and RV Park Neighbors

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Keep your RV generator running at all hours.
Who needs to hear crickets chirping at dusk, or the silence of nature in the back country? If you keep your generator running all day and all night, you can enjoy life as usual. Watch TV at all hours, run that microwave and keep the A/C going without sacrificing one bit of your own comfort while you’re out in nature. It’s just like staying home.

Don’t turn off your outside lights.
Your RV’s manufacturer wouldn’t have included pretty LED patio lighting on the side of your rig if they didn’t want you to use it, right? But turning patio lights on and off when you need to go outside at night can be such a hassle. So as soon as the sun sets, just keep your patio lights blaring until morning. You never know when you’ll need to walk the dog at 3 am. Besides, your neighbors can use the light too. If it bothers them, they always get a sleep mask or install RV night shades.

Allow your dog or children to run around off-leash and unsupervised.
Kids and dogs can be wild by nature, so when you want your human or furry children to experience the real meaning of freedom, just turn them loose on the campground and see what happens. Don’t interrupt your important binge watching afternoon to go outside and keep an eye on their activities. The neighbor will probably let you know if something is wrong.

Feed local wildlife.
When you’re out in the woods, the last thing you want to spend time doing is tackling household chores like taking out the trash. Go have fun instead and keep your garbage piled up around your campsite until you leave for good. Better yet, just leave garbage for the animals. Ravens, mice and bears will have an easier time finding dinner, especially when they realize there’s more good eats inside your neighbor’s camper.

Smoke outside next to your neighbor’s RV.
In the land of the free, everyone has the right to decide if and what they want to smoke. Forget those studies showing the effects smoking within 30 feet of another person. All the chemicals you inhale with every puff haven’t killed you yet and who knows, they might even invigorate your neighbor’s immune system too! So light up in the campground and if it bothers your neighbor, let them know that respirator masks are cheap.
 

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Smoke outside next to your neighbor’s RV.
In the land of the free, everyone has the right to decide if and what they want to smoke. Forget those studies showing the effects smoking within 30 feet of another person. All the chemicals you inhale with every puff haven’t killed you yet and who knows, they might even invigorate your neighbor’s immune system too! So light up in the campground and if it bothers your neighbor, let them know that respirator masks are cheap.

So you just smoke in your Fiat? Smoke chamber?
 

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Great Campers always make sure they're up and drinking waaay past 2 am. shoot, try for 4-5 am... after all,
you should be able to do whatever you want since you paid that $24 per night site fee.
And regarding those generators, it's always a treat for neighboring campers if you start that genny up around
7am to be able to use those Kuerig's and microwaves... gotta put the TV cartoons on for the kiddies since lord
knows they only listen and eat their cherrios when cartoons are on...... Double bonus for restarting that genny
right when your nieghbors want to eat dinner outside.......!

Of course if you've forgotten, or can't afford the genny, by all means, bring 300 feet of extension cords and trough
them through 4 camp sites to tie into the campground restrooms electrical outlets in the bathrooms.
triple word score if you've also brought that nice 65" big screen TV so you can watch horror movies at volume 50.

another personal Fav is tying up the only water source in the entire loop with your custom water hose and hose
clamps so no one else can get water to wash dishes, etc.
 

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since we only camp where a lake exists, and I bring my boat of 30 years I'd throw my body between the bow and the dock
should the motor die, it's a treat when the neighboring camper kids decide to throw rocks into the water.....
""Hey Pals, let's try and see if we can hit that blue and white boat anchored out in 5 feet of water since the owner is a picky
fuck and would cry if it touched the beach.

extra triple word score for those kids with fishing poles trying to cast into the center of our party island float... since hooks
come right out when you grip it and rip it.......
 

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Bring a big container of Nesquik chocolate powder and spread it around the annoying camper’s site. The bears will visit and “fix” your annoying neighbor’s site
 

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One way to NOT be annoyed at a campground by neighbors...

Don’t go the the campground.

:)

Could be like us last night right bro?! Middle of desert, idiots pull up in trucks. Start blasting distorting music, all while burning a tractor tire. Lets just say I didn't get much sleep as they partied till 3am ish!
 
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Great Campers always make sure they're up and drinking waaay past 2 am. shoot, try for 4-5 am...

You must be from the Apache Loop. :D
 
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Not sure where all of you are camping, but we haven't experienced what you all are saying. Been rv camping since 2003 and tent camping before that.

1 thing I always try to do is go over and meet each neighbor.
 

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Jeez... You all should stay home, it is less stressful...
 

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Go with a group of 30, that all run their generators at the same time....

Go to bed at 11pm

All listen to country music, until I turned on my AC pandora station for two hours.. during the day....

Times have changed in 50 years since i tent camped.
 

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I remember the first time I called the Islander to book a spot, they told me that if I was a "Spring Breaker" and wanted to play loud music and throw beer cans around the place that "I wouldn't have a good time here" and they will throw me out if I did. That's why I like the place because it's lights out at 10, and at night all you hear is air conditioners and swamp coolers :D
 

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Make sure you don't fix the black tank valve thats been leaking for 4 years - so everyone can smell your shit and piss, but especially your neighbors who get to enjoy your special brand of aromatherapy up close and personal.



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Could be like us last night right bro?! Middle of desert, idiots pull up in trucks. Start blasting distorting music, all while burning a tractor tire. Lets just say I didn't get much sleep as they partied till 3am ish!

They were still asleep when we left lol
 

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My favorite are the assholes with two black/grey tanks (front bathroom?) that feel the need to use theirs AND my hook-up when I show up.
 

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What about the people that camp 30 feet away from you when there is miles of desert and you are the only 2 camps out there. Or the ones that camp next to you, again miles of desert, then try telling you the rules. WTF I've been here 3 days already. Go find another place to camp jackass.
 

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Could be like us last night right bro?! Middle of desert, idiots pull up in trucks. Start blasting distorting music, all while burning a tractor tire. Lets just say I didn't get much sleep as they partied till 3am ish!


Just fire up you're genni at 5 or 6 as a good morning fockers. If that doesn't work, play something obnoxious and loud till they complain.
 

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Camping/RV use is no different than regular society. Always be a % that DGAF while others will go out of their way to be great. The stories i could tell about my neighbor at Islander....:)
 

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I’m confused.
Parking an RV in a glorified parking lot, with a generator, is camping?
I could not stay in most campgrounds very long. Most are parking lots side by side.
My neighbors go away for the summer and stay in one these parking lots for 4 months. I would go crazy.
 

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I guess my “camping” experiences are just a little different.

Our Biggest complaint was usually a brown bear scouting us all night and keeping us awake.

I think today they call it “survival”?

Been there. Had a bear knock on our wall tent one trip in Montana. One of the guys shot an elk went back to camp to grab a mule to pack it out, when we got back a bear got it.
 

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No.1 I hate RVs and only camp out in tents..

The place we camp is 90% tent campers, with a few RV... typically ederly people, who just cant tent camp anymore.

But they are very respectful...but this place has no RV hookups at all.

On occasion, some idiots do pop in, and do some of the things you mentioned above...

The moment there generator gets turned off they get 2000 watts of Metallica Breadfan, cranked wide open... i park my truck right in front of there RV...

Typically doesnt take them long to storm out of the RV ,and start complaining.. but i inform them the sound of a generator is the same sound they hear, of Metallica.. that we dont go camping to listen to generators all day and night...

They typically are gone the next day...

Consider it my duty to educate these dumb bastards. Especially when they show up in $350,000 RVs and stay inside them all day and night, with generator never shutting off..

I can tell storys about this stuff all day...
We camp in NorCal.. in the mountains... pine trees, and a big effing lake...
 
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Been there. Had a bear knock on our wall tent one trip in Montana. One of the guys shot an elk went back to camp to grab a mule to pack it out, when we got back a bear got it.

We started “camping” when we moved to Alaska.
I was 9-10 years old.
Dad was AF Combat Control.
Him and his guys were all gung Ho survival trained bad asses.
So that’s how we camped. We’d be literally miles up some remote river as far from anyone as they could possibly get. They’d have an “outhouse” dug within an hour, complete with a crossed branch seat and tarp shield for the wives.
At 10 years old he started me on navigation training with a compass and map. At 11-12 years old I’d do 5 mile plus navs through complete wilderness. Other people would kind of freak out when they saw a 12 year old coming up a trail with a 44 mag super Blackhawk on his hip, a Mossberg slung on his shoulder, and a compass in his hand with his 10 year old brother beside him reading coordinates off a topo map.

I suspect Dad did it to get us out of his hair, and it really pissed mom off that he’d send us out into the woods like that.
But I wouldn’t trade it for anything different.

Later in life it served me well. When we’d go hunting or on multi day canoe fishing trips with portage’s I was the navigator. No one else could really figure out what I was doing with my military compass, a protractor, and the topo, but they k ew I’d get them from point a to b
 

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Camping/RV use is no different than regular society. Always be a % that DGAF while others will go out of their way to be great. The stories i could tell about my neighbor at Islander....:)
Fricken Royal:confused::p:D:D
 

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Boondocking...the whole idea is to get away from society, not bring the city to the forest.
 
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