RE: Tacky Light Etiquette

[bearbait]

 cartooncaracter
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[tlhdoc]

 cartooncaracter
Uhm Lee, I have been meaning to talk to you about when we camped together last October
  TURN THE LIGHTS OFF please.
 
 Marcy is right about tacky lights not being a problem when you dry camp.  A bright lanturn can still be a problem though.[8D]
 
 I purchased my first tacky lights last October, I used them on one trip and I turned them off at bed time.[]

[Jeffrey]

 cartooncaracter
I believe if you can t be tacky with tacky lights. Then you just don t deserve to own them.
 
 I personally have never seen a set of tacky lights that are bright enough to bother us. But if they were that bright they must have been really tacky. Or else you camped next to Bearbait (Lee).
 
 There was one trip last summer, when we made a late night run to the can. And I was never so happy to see a set of tacky lights in my life. It was so dark outside you couldn t see your hand in front of your face. This was no problem on the way there cause the bathhouse had lights on it. But when we turned around to go back GOOD LUCK, I nearly walked into to the lake, until I noticed my neighbors tacky lights in the other directions.

[greyhounds4me]

 cartooncaracter
[font=" Comic Sans MS" ]Oh Dear.  I hope you weren t camping in the same SP we were because I leave mine on all night.  To be honest, I never really thought about it.   I do like the light they provide in the middle of the night when I have to run to the potty or take the dog out.  We had little round Christmas lights up for the last 3 trips.  I just ordered new one s from the party lights website.  I was amazed at the variety available.  I think the one s I choose are tastefully tacky though.  I guess I ll start turning them off when we go to bed since that seems like the considerate thing to do.  There s always a flashlight! [/font]

[Starryart]

 cartooncaracter
My DH loves his tacky lights and has quite a collection of them, but we do turn them off at bedtime.
 Our gripe is the gazillion watt halogen spot lights that some people use to light up the whole forest just so they can cook a couple of hot dogs on the pit.
 You would think you were in Reliant stadium. You could signal ships at sea with those lights! With a direct shine on your camper it is like being in a glowing bowl. If you need that much light, why not camp on the nearest Wal Mart parking lot?
 We have on occasion asked the camphost to ask the offenders to tone it down after a reasonable hour which so far has worked. It also helps to be very good friends with the resident park ranger at our favorite SP.[]

[YellowXterra]

 cartooncaracter
I hate to sound rude but I paid for my campsite and I will leave the lights on if I want to! If you really are going to let Tacky light ruin your trip you should dry camp in the middle of no where.  Noise is what bothers me more than anything. I can block out light but its hard to block out noise.

[MtnCamper]

 YellowXterra

 

ORIGINAL:  YellowXterra
 
 I hate to sound rude but I paid for my campsite and I will leave the lights on if I want to!  I can block out light but its hard to block out noise.
 

But, If I m camped next to you, should I have to block out your light? I paid for my spot too.

[Starryart]

 YellowXterra
I don t usually have a problem with tacky lights, lord knows we have our share, but nobody s light sources should be invasive to the point of major discomfort to others. Most times small tacky lights are usually not in this category.
 We try to be courteous to our neighbors and hope they will be too. We have found 99% of camper folk are!

[Turn Key]

 cartooncaracter
Have never had a real problem with this.  Would seem that bright lights should be off at the same time loud noise should end.  Most places dictate " quiet time"  some time after 10 pm.  This is when I feel bright lights should be off unless there is a real good reason for them to be on.  IMHO

[rednekrubbrduck]

 YellowXterra
I guess we ve been lucky that we haven t camped next to someone with tackylights that put out 1,000,000 candlelights worth of light.  We turn ours off, but have seen others left on all night in the CG, but were so dim they weren t intrusive.  Our s aren t that bright, and the Star Trek Halmark ones you can barely see unless you were by our camper.  Are there some out there that light up like you re at an AC/DC concert?

[GeneF]

 YellowXterra
Why I don t like Tacky Lights left on all night in the popup next to me.
 
 I have a problem falling asleep if the room is light.  We have a window in the ceiling in our bedroom and on moonlight nights I do not get much sleep.  DW says to close my eyes but that does not do much good.  (Think my eyelids are thin)
 
 I had the experience of camping next to someone who left their lights on all night.  The canvas in a popup does not do a lot to keep the light out.   I did not get a lot of sleep that night.  Admittedlly, the sites were close to each other.
 
 So that is my reason why I would appreciate it if you would turn your lights off at night and in return I promise not to have a loud conversation around the campfire at 12 am so that you and your children may get some sleep and enjoy the next camping day.

[bearbait]

 GeneF
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[Viking99]

 GeneF
Gene, It sounds like you need to get some type of eye patch so that you can sleep at night.[8D]

[bearbait]

 GeneF
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[Garrett]

 YellowXterra
I usually do not have a problem with the tacky lights most of them are not that bright.  What I do have a problem with is campers that bring 500 or 1000 w halogen work lights.  I had the pleasure twice this past summer of camping next to people using them.  They were not trying to be obnoxius,  They even shined the lights mostly upword, but they still lit my site up like daylight.  That is not what I go camping to experience.