I’m getting a bit of a complex

Christoph said:
Well here we are 2 weeks into our new Burstner Lyseo. On a C&MC site in Dorset where we’ve been before in our Chausson. The odd thing is that very few people have spoken or even returned a good morning since we arrived last week. No idea why other than the change of van. Am I over thinking this or do people have an aversion to seeing relatively young people(58 and 60) in a new Burstner?
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Your
new Burstner Lyseo would be wasted on me I'm afraid, no idea what it is or how much it cost but I would say good morning.
I have been camping for many years and can say many owners can be a bit snobbish. I find the worst kind are those who have purchased their council house under the right to buy, then purchased a posh van with a top up. Some of them living on an estate feel instantly superior when they get on site in their posh van with uncategorized folk from all walks of life. I could be wrong but I have seen a few.​
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buttons said:
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new Burstner Lyseo would be wasted on me I'm afraid, no idea what it is or how much it cost but I would say good morning.

I have been camping for many years and can say many owners can be a bit snobbish. I find the worst kind are those who have purchased their council house under the right to buy, then purchased a posh van with a top up. Some of them living on an estate feel instantly superior when they get on site in their posh van with uncategorized folk from all walks of life. I could be wrong but I have seen a few.

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How do you know the back story to everyone's purchase? It can only be your assumption surely?
 
buttons said:
I find the worst kind are those who have purchased their council house under the right to buy
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My Dad bought his council house, you could call him many things, snob would likely be the last.:D

I've spent the best part of 35years chatting to motorhome owners, not one have I ever asked if they bought their home under a council right to buy scheme. Do you ask them? If they say yes, do you move pitch? :D

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Get a dog with a limp. My record is 14 people in one afternoon in Weymouth stopping me to say your dogs hurt it’s leg, your dog's limping etc....
Better still get a cat and take it with you in your Moho, everyone will talk to you then.
 
Jim said:
My Dad bought his council house, you could call him many things, snob would likely be the last.:D

I've spent the best part of 35years chatting to motorhome owners, not one have I ever asked if they bought their home under a council right to buy scheme. Do you ask them? If they say yes, do you move pitch? :D
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:)I will talk to anyone who offers me a cup of tea and many who have been council tenants I'm sure. If your old man was anything like you he must have been a bit of a character too.

I'm really not into snobbery of any kind but there are many on sites who could be placed in that category though, not fun members of course. Anyway it gives us something else to talk about other than Burstners, whatever a burstner is...:)
 
I will never ever ever ever understand anyone who decides whether to speak to someone or not based on the "poshness" or "price" or "newness" of their van.

I will never ever ever ever understand anyone who thinks people will look up to them, or think better of them, or even look at them differently than before, because they have a new, expensive motorhome.

I do, however, understand folk who don't talk to me because I am scruffy, crumpled and smelly...

I wear (very low priced) crocs (without socks) practically all the time. I am not interested in getting to know any "shoe-ists" who thinks less of me because of this...




JJ :cool:
 
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Cant understand the ignorance of moho owners. You spend all day driving past other vans dithering shall I shan’t i wave invariably you do then when you park up nothing no speaking just the odd nod

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It seems to happen to my wife Heather more than to me, it winds her up, people not acknowledging her good mornings or evenings. It takes all sorts so they say, but to not talk to someone on the basis of motorhome,Caravan, tent they have is just plain daft, now if they support Millwall its perfectly fine to blank them.
 
Simon Meadwell said:
Cant understand the ignorance of moho owners. You spend all day driving past other vans dithering shall I shan’t i wave invariably you do then when you park up nothing no speaking just the odd nod
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What is it we have in common, we own a motorhome. Not sure that is enough to make us compatible in every way.
 
JJ said:
I will never ever ever ever understand anyone who decides whether to speak to someone or not based on the "poshness" or "price" or "newness" of their van.

I will never ever ever ever understand anyone who thinks people will look up to them, or think better of them, or even look at them differently than before, because they have a new, expensive motorhome.

I do, however, understand folk who don't talk to me because I am scruffy, crumpled and smelly...

I wear (very low priced) crocs (without socks) practically all the time. I am not interested in getting to know any "shoe-ists" who thinks less of me because of this...

JJ :cool:
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I'm afraid Crocks of any age are a big turn off for me JJ....
Crocs Unisex Adults’ Classic Clogs
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There seems to be a lot of something on UK campsites and Brits abroad, whether it’s snobbery or jealousy or just shyness, I don’t know.
We try not to judge people we meet but that behaviour is very noticeably absent within the “foreign’ motorhome community.
I remember when we had our Winnebago, people seemed to avoid us on UK sites but when we pulled up at Honfleur, the French couple in a brand new tag axle Hymer got out of their van next to us, the man looked at our 20 year old RV and said “ C’est une Manifique camping car”
 
Simon Meadwell said:
Cant understand the ignorance of moho owners. You spend all day driving past other vans dithering shall I shan’t i wave invariably you do then when you park up nothing no speaking just the odd nod
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I always speak and if folk choose not to that's their problem not mine.

JJ one of the memories that always make me smile was at Stratford two dog walkers going past and commenting about your Black Beast and not in a complimentary way only to be shocked when a very loud grand voice boomed out at then explaining it was a luxury motorhome.



Simon Meadwell
I really don't think you have been on a fun meet the first thing people commented on is how many people speak to you.
What's this dithering about you eigher wave or you don't

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Allanm said:
There seems to be a lot of something on UK campsites and Brits abroad, whether it’s snobbery or jealousy or just shyness, I don’t know.
We try not to judge people we meet but that behaviour is very noticeably absent within the “foreign’ motorhome community.
I remember when we had our Winnebago, people seemed to avoid us on UK sites but when we pulled up at Honfleur, the French couple in a brand new tag axle Hymer got out of their van next to us, the man looked at our 20 year old RV and said “ C’est une Manifique camping car”
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funny you should bring Honfleur into this as this was worst place we found it a couple of years ago, there must have been 20 brits on there and not one of them even lifted their head to nod a reply but we were parked next to a Belgian van , and he insisted unpluging his hookup and putting a splitter in so we could hook into his supply and we wernt even bothered about hooking up , on talking to them after we found he had his wifes mother in his van and she actually needed the hookup for some sort of medical thing, so even though we did put the plug in we didnt use it in the van.
 
chaser said:
spot on , iv gone on sites and seen vans with fun stickers on and having going across to them to have a word , say something like , i see you are a funster and they look at you as if you are talking Chinese, point out the sticker, they come up with, oh i dont have anything to do with that now, oh i dont use computers, oh that, it was in when we bought it, oh we dont use aires really, we are just on our way to our villa.
no kidding iv heard it all
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Well I’ll find out about how the Funster Stickers generates chat as I’ve just got one and am about to go on our 2/3 month travels to finish up in Spain for the winter.
 
I have never found Caravan Club sites particularly friendly places the few times I have used them. Spotlessly clean but too antiseptic for us. It seems to me that some caravanners tend to resent motorhomers, or even other caravanners if they do not have the "correct" rig.

It is not helped by the fact they seem to want to spread to define the whole of "their" pitch with awnings and high windbreaks so they can cut themselves off from the rest of humanity. It is hard to make eye contact or even say good morning if you can't even see the the buggers even thoughj they are sitting outside!.
 
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Can't remember which Funster is was that posted it, or even when, he'd pulled into a site, set up then noticing a "smily flag" wandered over.

"Hiya, I see you are a funster"
"Funster??"
"yea the flag, it's a funster flag"
"HAROLD!! take that bloody flag down, it's a swingers/wifeswopping flag!!":Grin::Grin:
 
buttons said:
I'm afraid Crocks of any age are a big turn off for me JJ....
Crocs Unisex Adults’ Classic Clogs
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Just had an idea, to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies, maybe it should be law that all teenage girls have to wear crocs on a night out. By Hell that would cut the birth-rate !

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We parked up in a site and the bloke next door had even put a little white plastic fence around his pitch. Makes you wonder why they bother leaving the house.
 
Got it on a crappy Spanish site when we turned up in a new roller team so it’s not limited to posh vans as the roller was not! Picking up a new rapido tomorrow might have to invest in a new number plate
 
Must admit I can't really say I've experienced being ignored to any great extent . Majority of people will say hi and chat for a long period not everyone will know what van you drive if your walking to the the facilities.
Some people are friendly , some not so friendly and very few are rude. I'm bovered nah.
 
peterc10 said:
I have never found Caravan Club sites particularly friendly places the few times I have used them. Spotlessly clean but too antiseptic for us. It seems to me that some caravanners tend to resent motorhomers, or even other caravanners if they do not have the "correct" rig.

It is not helped by the fact they seem to want to spread to define the whole of "their" pitch with awnings and high windbreaks so they can cut themselves off from the rest of humanity. It is hard to make eye contact or even say good morning if you can't even see the the buggers even thoughj they are sitting outside!.
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Even when they sit outside in plain view, your cheery “hello” will usually be met by a blank stare or just ignored.
I find if you catch them while they are busy fiddling around with something and comment on their competence, some will speak.
What was nice though, on 3 occasions on our last trip to the UK, 3 people in UK reg vans said Bonjour to us.
One at Canterbury Park and Ride, one at Bishops Stortford services and one at Cabbage Moor C&MC Campsite at Cambridge.
All in older vans that had seen some life.

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Sandancers said:
Just had an idea, to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies, maybe it should be law that all teenage girls have to wear crocs on a night out. By Hell that would cut the birth-rate !
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I’m really sorry (we’ll actually I’m not), but I really like my Crocs - after YEARS of wearing bloody brogues and stiff leather shoes to work....looking all nice and “professional” I now regularly, on my non-working days, kick around in the scruffiest pair of Crocs; especially when I’m on holiday!

I also kick around in a well worn scruffy pair of boating shoes whilst wearing a pair of jeans with holes in the knees - bliss!

Personally it’s a bit like reverse snobbery, reverse “one-upmanship” - I’m now starting to not give a s**t what people think of me when I’m wearing relaxed / scruffy clothes / footwear.

Don’t get me wrong, I can more than polish up when needed and fit in with the gentry (although it is not something I feel the need to do).

So Crocs are my friends :-)
 
peterc10 said:
I have never found Caravan Club sites particularly friendly places the few times I have used them. Spotlessly clean but too antiseptic for us. It seems to me that some caravanners tend to resent motorhomers, or even other caravanners if they do not have the "correct" rig.

It is not helped by the fact they seem to want to spread to define the whole of "their" pitch with awnings and high windbreaks so they can cut themselves off from the rest of humanity. It is hard to make eye contact or even say good morning if you can't even see the the buggers even thoughj they are sitting outside!.
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I was informedby one set of Caravanners that the CMC was for middle class people, The lady was very proud to tell me.
 
Last month we pitched up at the muninciple site at Zaragoza, as I drove on the the pitch the couple on the pitch in front reversed there chairs so we only saw there backs, and they ignored the wife's greeting, it was a French van so not just the English.
 
Park slightly off peg, someone is bound to talk to you, probably in a red polo shirt?

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