Does Anyone Have The Answer

rienza said:
That's it, that's exactly what happened with us. :mad1:

Some terrific answers on here. Love 'em.
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see, your not alone, its madness, i wouldnt dream of parking near to anyone, people deserve their own space, what i usually do is park up then take dogs for a walk and usually go and say hello, simples, mind you, i have encountered some miserable gits, suppose thats an entire new thread lol

Jen xx
 
We used to send the rug rats out to kick a football about and shout a lot. That worked well.
 
IscubaToo said:
We used to send the rug rats out to kick a football about and shout a lot. That worked well.
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Sounds like a familier tale from Europe - find nice quiet Stellplatz... dusk falls... 3 Italian vans turn up and surround you, disgorging dozens of bambino...
 
Mastodon said:
Sounds like a familier tale from Europe - find nice quiet Stellplatz... dusk falls... 3 Italian vans turn up and surround you, disgorging dozens of bambino...
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That reminds me of the time on Mull. Tucked ourselves away. Got the wine out then two traveller vans and their kids turned up.

Guess who moved that time too? :cry:
 
As I said last time this came up "I admit it its me . I am the guilty one". When I drive into a large car park and see Motorhomes at one end of I tend to head to that end. Presume they may know something I don't. I always leave at least 2 or 3 spaces between us if at all possible. When you lot get out the BBQ, send out the yappy dogs and the rug rats I am gone PDQ.:p

Richard
 
Tbear said:
As I said last time this came up "I admit it its me . I am the guilty one". When I drive into a large car park and see Motorhomes at one end of I tend to head to that end. Presume they may know something I don't. I always leave at least 2 or 3 spaces between us if at all possible. When you lot get out the BBQ, send out the yappy dogs and the rug rats I am gone PDQ.:p

Richard
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like you im not antisocial i just dont want to feel im sharing the loo with the neighbours!
 
We recently found that when we turned up in our LDV ex school mini bus that no one wanted to come and camp next to us at all !!

We thought of enhancing this even further by painting "Feltham Young Offenders" on the side
 
yorkslass said:
like you im not antisocial i just dont want to feel im sharing the loo with the neighbours!
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Hi yorkslass.

I know what you mean We had one in France. He parked so close, his side door was banging against our van:mad:

Richard
 
I'd say this does happen to me alot............................... but we normally scare them away as we are noisy drinkers (as we tend to travel with another like minded motorhome couple) and this can go onto the early hours of the morning. My best line when asked to keep the noise down is "I didn't park your van here, we stayed out of the way not to disturb people!". Funny thing is they have moved the next day, unless on the rarest of times that they have bought beverages with them and join in!! This tends to identify what kind of neighbours you are sharing the spot with.
 
A variation on the theme, I admit, but still relevant...we had the same conversation not long ago:

I work in a large factory. The toilets nearest to my workplace consist of a long row of urinals, and 3 rows of toilet cubicles.
Feeeling the need for a dump, you can walk into a completely empty toilet area and select a cubicle. Bearing in mind there are now 29 empty cubicles, why does the next entrant invariably occupy the cubicle next door to yours (and noisily unload the previous night's curry)? It's a phenomenon that often gets discussed between us - the "social ****ter"- but no-one's yet managed to come up with an answer, although there have been several suggestions for a deterrent.....
 
kimbowbill said:
Well i have decided to develop tourettes syndrome the next time somebody does it to me, i'm sick of it, so i will shout it out loud, apologise that i have tourettes, they might get the message, lol, think that would be quite funny lol
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You could be like that Pete on big brother who really did have tourettes. He used to shout out C****s and W*****s. That would be super annoying!

My answer to OP though is everyone has different concepts of personal space, and that applies to vans too. If someone is parked in the corner of field, I would tend to head up on their side somewhere, all things being equal. Not right next to them but near them, it's more sociable that way. I would park three spaces up one side of the field near them, not in the opposite corner of the field. I'm assuming in the first instance that it's a level playing field ;)

But if the opposite corner had nice trees or a stream or something then I would park there.
 
markin said:
A variation on the theme, I admit, but still relevant...we had the same conversation not long ago:

I work in a large factory. The toilets nearest to my workplace consist of a long row of urinals, and 3 rows of toilet cubicles.
Feeeling the need for a dump, you can walk into a completely empty toilet area and select a cubicle. Bearing in mind there are now 29 empty cubicles, why does the next entrant invariably occupy the cubicle next door to yours (and noisily unload the previous night's curry)? It's a phenomenon that often gets discussed between us - the "social ****ter"- but no-one's yet managed to come up with an answer, although there have been several suggestions for a deterrent.....
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A few pints of Real Ale the night before should do the trick:beer:.....Old Peculiar, Old Speckled hen, Rust Bucket...and my particular favourite Hick's Special Draught....the high yeast content of these ales means a build-up of methane in the gut so the stink of the inevitable force ten blast just before the turtle's head appears:rolleyes2: should force any would be neighbours to think again about joining you next door.....In fact if it was me (and it often is!) I'd not even go in the building!:dnd:
 
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i think the french are used to their aires,which are often quite small and fill up in the season and just naturally park up close to each other to be considerate,strange as it sounds.my mate parked in a beautifuln glade in the ardennes forest,he was the only one there,and was woken up at7am to find a dutch camper 2 metres away and the guy was mowing the grass round their vans with a petrol mower. apparently it looked a bit untidy
 
It's not just motorhomes. We always park at the top end of the car park at Tescos, miles away from other vehicles.

We did today and blow me when we got back to the car there was another parked at the side of us and I struggled to open the passenger door. Jeez.

Think I might develop Tourettes.
 
it happened to me in the supermarket today, i was in the que and this woman stood so close thought she wo gunna kiss back of my kneck, just wish i could fart on demand, instead i asked her if she would not mind invading my personal space and let me breath, she just glared at me, thought she wo gunna stab me, what is wrong with folk, its so rude
 
Maybe these people were brought up like the the people in the "Bitty" little britain sketch :scared: and just need to let go of those apron strings.

Squibby.
 
Rubbertramp said:
.......:lol-049:




See the advice posted above.....Old Speckled Hen et al...
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:lol-049::lol-049::lol-049::lol-049::lol-049:

well thanks for the tip RT, seems like the answer, only trouble is waiting til the turtles head appears is a little bit riskay, especially as you get older lol, perhaps we could discuss this further at our meet next week lol

Jen xx
 
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