Fishing , camping and friends plus kids- sounds like fun! NOPE

[Barbee Q]

Picture a beautiful day on the Lake with friends. Mix in Kids, tents, food, boating, COOKING, Doing DISHES, and cleaning up after yourself.. It doesn't happen.. I found out that my friend doesn't cook, do dishes, or know how to set up her own tent. Her 11yr old girl knew how to do it all. Of course i did the cooking and dishes. The third day I got up early jumped into MY BOAT and took off. I had a hotdog,drinks and chips and a blow tourch to cook my weinner on the boat and didn't come back to the campsite until I blew off some steam.. Now I was gone for about 5 hours and when got back, I heard this oh your just intime to cook lunch. NOPE, I already ate. Your on your own. And that is why I always ask questions before, that yes comes out of my mouth...OH ya she packed a 2 Gallon thing of ICE CREAM in the cooler, and doesn't bring it out until the next day.. What do think she said when it was melted.. Gee, I guess we should of ate it last night.. Oh my god, she tried to give it to some of our neighbors that were camping next to us.. That is when I brought out the bottle of wine to celebrate to old friends.

 

[mrloring]

Re: Fishing , camping and friends plus kids- sounds like fun! NOPE

I know how you feel. I went camping with my SIL and her husband. She admits that she can't cook, but agrees to do all the dishes. Her husband on the other had just proves that he is a lazy @#%$, and can drink beer and get stupid. I bring most of the camping equipment, because all he has is a tent and sleeping bags. I bring a screenhouse, stove, cookware, coolers, lantern etc. When we break camp he takes down his tent and doesn't help with anything else. <br />NEVER EVER AGIAN!!!

 

[Barbee Q]

Re: Fishing , camping and friends plus kids- sounds like fun! NOPE

Oh my god , I think they're related.. I brought all my camping stuff too and provided the meals, plus she took my folding chair and used it all the time we were there. She wouldn't use her crappy uncomforable wal-mart special to sit in. She used the showers at the campground while I used the lake. It took her 18mth old 15minutes to put his dirty hands all over her.. You had to be there..

 

[Twidget]

Re: Fishing , camping and friends plus kids- sounds like fun! NOPE

That is exactly why I dont camp with family. Been there, done that.

 

[mrloring]

Re: Fishing , camping and friends plus kids- sounds like fun! NOPE

I forgot about the food! <br />3 couples - me & wife, her Mom & Dad, her sister & lazy<br /><br /> We were all going to pitch in $25 per couple for food to start. Lazy thought that was way too much, no way will two people eat $25 in food a week. Apparently he has never been grocery shopping. Complained that the food cost was so high because MIL wanted steaks for dinner one night. My wife and MIL bought the steaks, but sister-in-law and lazy didn't mind eating them. If I would have bought the steaks I would have only bought enough for those that paid(LET'EM EAT HOT DOGS). No problems with the parents-in-law, we will probably go again next year without SIL and Lazy.

 

[Triton II]

Re: Fishing , camping and friends plus kids- sounds like fun! NOPE

Glad to see that family issues are just as much a part of life in the good old US of A as they are down here in convict country.<br /><br />Had my 55-year-old cousin visit us for a week after he split up with his partner. He's never had a full time job in his life and we said yes to him visiting so my aunty could have a break - after the split he went to live with her and she wasn't coping.<br /><br />Anyway, we decide to go camping on the beach and pack the car. No help. We take an extra two man tent an airmattress and sleeping bag just for him. We buy all the food and eskies full of ice with beer, soft drinks and cask wine. No help or contribution towards the cost.<br /><br />We spend the first two days enjoying ourselves, having fun with the kids and rarely see my cousin, he appears mainly at mealtimes. He's moody and the kids are a little scared of him. On day three he borrows the car and goes into the nearest town (about 15 miles away) "to ring his Mum" - my aunty. He comes back three days later, in the mean time we've had no car and had to borrow a camping neighbour's to get supplies.<br /><br />We dump my cousin at the nearest train station (about 50 miles away). End of story, end of friendship. Sad but true.

 

[djzyla1980]

Re: Fishing , camping and friends plus kids- sounds like fun! NOPE

Might got one to beat them all.... <br /><br />Planning a Nice summer Fathers day weekend, my wife, 2 kids, and I decide to go camping with our best friends and their 2 kids. WE both camp alot so between the both of us we have Many supplies. Comes down to a few days before the trip and best friends brother finds out were goin and wants to join. NOBODY wanted him,His little girl, his GF, and her kid to join but we thought might not be that bad. Told them to split the cost of food... No problem. Told him when we were going for food and "Oh just get whatever and tell me what we owe you" So we went... and got what WE would get any other camp outting. Got "this is all we got for that amount??" Asked if he had a tent... go figure... NOPE they had nothing but blankets and a playpen... So we loaded ours up in the pop-up to let him borrow our tent. They couldn't even bring a flashlight to see at night. <br /><br />He's now going to meet us at the campsite. We get out there and set up our camp, getting late so we set up there tent. No thanks of course. Eat dinner and she don't like what were havin. My wife and best friend washes dishes. Get up in the morning and I cook eggs, hashbrowns, pancakes, sausage, bacon. Plenty enough for all 12 of us to eat. GF says"what no french toast" COME On this isn't friggin denny's. Once again the same 2 people do dishes. Everytime we cooked... there was something they didn't like or wouldn't eat and again same people doin dishes. They disappear for awhile leaving their 2 kids behind, 2 year old sleeping in the tent away from us. Woke up.. we watched both. They came back right about lunch time and didn't like the lunchmeat we bought. Again.. were stuck watching the kids. Dinner time... we cooked and cleaned, and watched the kids again and didn't know where they were. This point we're all getting POed. They were like this the whole weekend. One night Sitting around campfire we were talkin about pre-marital sex..... she states she wants to wait until married to have children.....LADY your not married never have been and have a child.... WAKE UP. They mooched off of us the whole weekend and when it came the day to load up... they wake up, put their stuff in the car... and away they go. Leaving our tent that they used for us to take down. Didn't even have the decency to clean up their site or say thank you. Those 4 people ended up ruining 8 peoples great camping weekend. <br /><br />The way I see it. Don't B!tch about the food if you don't want to shop, don't bring the kids if you don't want to watch, and nevermind... camping just isn't for you... at least with us it isn't.

 

[stan_deezy]

Re: Fishing , camping and friends plus kids- sounds like fun! NOPE

Barbara: that is a classic: and just shows you gotta be careful choosing who you go camping with <br /><br />Similar story here: years ago I was pretty fit and still in Reserve Forces. A civilian friend of mine wants me to show him some fieldcraft in the wilds of Scotland. No problem. It's February but forecast doesn't look too bad. Plenty of planning and we set off. He has borrowed everything bar the kitchen sink from other friends and is clearly weighed down so I grab some of his gear and help him (he has a slight disability).<br /><br />Anyhows, we get set up for the first night and he doesn't listen to anything I'm saying: his area is a total mess with all his equipment spread out around the tent. I try to tell him but he just shrugs and says "We aren't in the Army! I'll pick it up in the morning"......<br /><br />About 1am I hear him shouting and waken up: there has been unexpected snowfall to around two feet deep <br />His tent has collapsed and he is soaking wet (no dry clothes, not enough room for them in his bergen) and he just wants to go home <br /><br />I'd set an escape route on the map so I help him gather up what gear we could find we divide it equally and set off at quite a pace crosscountry to catch the only bus coming through the area.<br /><br />I notice that despite his disability he's doing really well and keeping up with my pace and we make it to the bus with minutes to spare. <br /><br />Then I help him by lifting his bergen........only to discover its empty!<br /><br />Turns out that to keep with the pace he'd been throwing equipment out all the way along the route. If we'd had to dig in again he'd have been stuffed; no food, no water, no torch. matches etc etc.<br /><br />He still talks about it to this day but his spin is "I remember the time I kept up with you going crosscountry in the snow"