Well done Shekon at least you gave them something to look at ;)

Yup people can be so insensitive.

I was about to Leave a CP in Esk Qld and drove the Suzuki 4x4 towards the back of the motorhome to hitch up. The couple in the adjacent site nudged each other and in stage whispers said to each other watch this.

As it happens we are quite adept at hitching up and in four minutes flat we were hitched up safety cables shackled on, electrics connected and the steering on the 4x4 freed up ready for travel. Walked around the vehicles doing the safety checks. Didn't want to drive off still hooked up to the electricity pole.

Got in drove off and gave a friendly wave to the neighbours. No acknowledgement whatsoever, they got up and went into their very expensive 200 series Landcruiser and Kedron Off roader. Takes all sorts to make a world and the vast majority of our fellow travellers are very nice decent people. Those that aren't stand out like a sore thumb( Was going to mention dog parts but maybe not )

The other side of the coin is we can all make mistakes and we need to make allowances.

 

Had a funny situation at a car park down in Melbourne many years ago. I was towing a box trailer and wanted to park in a corner carpark in one of the outer suburbs. The carpark had an IN gate and an OUT gate. I was situated facing straight at the OUT gate and the IN gate was around the corner, so I would have had to go around and pull across traffic to enter. Seeing as no-one was moving in the carpark, I thought "I'll just nip In Through the Out Door" (yes a Led Zep tragic). Just as I pulled into the OUT gate, a European bloke appeared right in front of me blasting his horn and yelled out "Hey.. whatsa matta.. you don't see the bl**dy arrows?" quick as a wink I yelled out "Arrows? Mate I didn't even see the bl**dy indians...." My then 14yr old son thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard.. hahaha we were both rolling around laughing and the European chap must have thought we were both crazy, so he drove around the carpark again and let us in... saved me having to reverse out into traffic anyway.. LOL now at 38 he still remembers that.

Once in Batchelor NT I had left the caravan park to got to the local village shops, it had an entry and exit point, these were only painted on the roadway but were faded and very hard to see. Never having been there before I drove into the shopping carpark by one entrance and when I left started to go out the other.

As I was about to drive out, a passing car slammed on it's brakes and the male driver yelled out "can't you f*#*#*# read !" I gave him a finger and drove out, however he started following me, around one corner then another and finally I had to pull in the CP, he followed me in and as I didn't want to park outside my then Avan camper trail and have it vandalised later, I found a spot to pull up (he was right behind me) got out and asked him what his problem was.

I was a lot younger and fitter then and at 6' a bit scary and he went to water, mumbled something about they had kids in town and tourists don't take any notice of their signs etc (says he who slammed on his brakes making a screeching noise on a roadway opposite a school) then meekly drove off. I think he shat himself when I got out. SWMBO was freaking out thinking I was going to get into fisticuffs knowing I had a heart condition.