Camping drama

I just wanted to share an odd story that happened to me just recently. I went on a camping trip this last weekend and came into a series of of mello-dramas. One would hope that if you drive 2 hours out of town and take your vehicle through small streams and mud bogs...that you might be left alone. Nope...

There was another camping group in our genral area...but far enough away to not notice from our site. It was 3 guys in there late 30's early 40's, and 2 young boys (turns out they are both 9..and cousins). We had arrived late on Friday night and set up our tent in the dark...and did the rest of out site prep the next day. All was well till about 1 O clock. Seems one of the boys got his hands on a gun (a small pistol) and informed the other that it was just a toy, then pulled the trigger, B]shot a hole thru the other boys finger!! I heard the shot and the screaming and offered to grab my girlfriend that just happens to be a childrens nurse. All things concidered..the boy will be fine..and will have a great story to tell but WHAT THE FUCK YO!!! God damn rednecks. It didn't really hit us till later...but anyone of us could have been shot in that scenario!! Fucked up YO!!

An hour later..we were each 2 beers and a half a joint into a nap/turned sex in the wilderness (In the tent) moment, when someone came up to our site. 2 guys that were a part of a 4some canoe-ing down the river had a girl that was begininning to suffer from Hypothermia!!! It was one of the guys wife..and he wanted to leave her with us, as they had several hours left till they would get all the way to their cars. (side note..she was a 25y/o rehheaded HOTTIE). We re clothed her and fed her. She was a spoiled brat about it all really. We didn't take it too personal...I mean..Her Husband had just left her with 2 strangers in the woods so he could finish his trip!! She was with us for 7 hours before he finally made it back to us.

Trouble comes in 3's. We had a few cars loads of friends show up on Saturday..just after our special guest was dropped off. The next morning..one of my friends big Boxer (as in the dog) BIT another friend!!!! Once again..she was fine but it was quite a dramatic scene for 20 minutes or so.

All in all I had a realy good time dispite all that happened. I just thought it was a story worth telling.

did you ever hear any banjo music???

it would have been perfect had the redhead made out with you and your gf...

Well..I did throw in that she was hot because..it occured to me that this could be the makings of the greatest camping trip EVER!!! She had pig tails and everything. My G/F was kind of aware of the ...thoughts in my head. The chick that stayed with us was a COMPLETE party foul though. All hung up on herself and ...it actually made her quite UN attractive.

No there was no BANJO music going down either.

Sounds like a pretty standard camping trip . I have never been camping without some type of mishap , that kind of adds to the fun though .
One time we went camping at this indian res. about 40 minutes north of our house , and it has this little stream you can inertube down . well my drunk friend managed to pop his tube , and decided to let it wash downstream . he figured that since they were all rentals , he would just snag one from a pile of tubes in the water as we passed by , in front of a motorhome parked by the stream . good idea . . . as we went back to the top of the stream for our next adventure in the rapids , they took us right past the now very angry fellow who was tyelling at us about my friend stealing his tube . ( it was actually his , and mark hadent noticed the big name painted on it . . . ) so anyhow we ignore the angry man , pretending that . . . " sheesh he cant be talking to us , we didnt steal anything . . . " and float along for a few more minutes , when he apears again a few yards away this time on the bank .
He is yelling and cursing , and pointing at us . the " we didnt take anything , are you yelling at us " trick worked the first time , but this time we knew he was yelling directly at us .
mark says " oh shit man , i didnt know it was yours we found it at the bottom of the river . . . bla bla bla " , a lie of course and the drunk angry man doesnt belive it . he says he should whip all of our asses and starts towards mark . so I get off my tube ( i'm in about 3 feet of water ) and start walking over to them . . . angry guy starts to see me getting ALOT taller very quickly as the water gets more & more shallow . by the time i am standing in front of him (still in about a foot of water) , I am a good 1 1/2 feet taller than him , and I had him by a good 90 lbs .
His tune starts to change very quickly . So it turns out after a little smooth talking ( it was actually easy because he was pretty tanked ) we were all best friends for the rest of the weekend , and had some nice drinks with him in the mud . . .

that would have really sucked to have to beat this guy up , infront of his family , because my friend was a dick . I would have had to atleast let him get in ONE punch before he got stomped

[Edited on Sep 10, 2003 by _mike_]

True..it wouldn't be any fun if nothing happened. The 2 kids and the gun were kind of out there...beyond anything I would have thought might happen. Dog bites, weary conno peeps...I guess are standard fare.

I consider a successful camping trip one where at least 90% of those who set out end up returning home, mostly intact.

So, to me, you got out OK.

wait. you didnt have sex with the redhead?

No I didn't Lame huh? I was really believing that it might happen...just cause..well there we all were. My girl friend was even giving me playful looks. I was thinking I was in like flinn!! The girl, like I said before, was a real bummer across the board. She couldn't stop talking about her husband this her husband that ...bla bla . It was obvious she was sending a messege.

I'll tell you..I think her Husband was fed up. I could tell this was one of those needy girls. My G/F even commented that she was hot but unattractivly needy. I think her Husband was glad to have lost her for a few hours...to show her that the world does not in fact...revolve around her.

At least you didn't get attacked by rats.

Um...tru. I did NOT get attacked by Rats. Thank you for pointing that out.

Hey, man, rats are a big problem when most people go camping. They're the big mutant kind.

R.O.U.S's ???
( i don't think they really exist )

Well, I've never run into any as big as Wesley and Buttercup had to deal with, but I've seen some pretty damn big ones... *unusually* big, so technically they were R.O.U.S.

[Edited on Sep 11, 2003 by Zork]

Does a very small rat (say, mouse-sized) count as an ROUS?

Not if it's a juvenile. But if it's full-grown, then a mouse-sized rat is definitely an R.O.U.S.