camping with a real live blonde

[SheBantam]

Now I have nothing against blondes, have been one a time or two in my life and have been accused of being as flakey as one...

We took a natural blonde relative camping a few weeks ago. Remember the old Marilyn Monroe Movie where there was mafia and how flakey she was, she did not realize the guy escaping with her was really a guy (he was disguised asa woman) Well it was almost that good.

I told her two weks before to find her cooler and freeze a bottle of water. I made sure the 32 cupcoffee maker/water heater was in the popup, there were dishes, pots, flatware (all the real stuff), no towels, wash rags, soap or other personal items.

The night before she calls her father and in that breathy MM voice, shesays "dad, I can't find the plug for the cooler". He comes running out to me, in a panic and says that she cannot find the plug to the cooler. I took him into our storage room and showed him, I had both thermal electric coolers, and told him to call her backi and remind her that the one I gave her was an ice cooler, one of the 5 day ones.

She calls back later and tells Raymond that he will ahve to come by and pick up two of her kids as she will not have room for the 3 kids, clothes and food in her CONVERSION van and the bicycles. Raymond went down her narrow road to her house and had to turn the camper around in her front yard because she was out buying an electric cooler, and not at home waiting for her dad. She put the kids in my new minivan complete with their lunchables and ketchup (boy am I glad I took a different route).

We get to the campground, Raymond parks the popup and She just stares at it. She wa the same one who told me she knew how it went together. Jeffrey had to put it together.
Then she had to buy ice as she "forgot" to freeze water.
Then she asks if I had towels. She had beach towels but no bath towels or kitchen towels. I told her all I use was beach towels. I brought 2 rolls of paper towels, she did not bring any.

I went to do dishes and low and behold, the dish soap was gone, she had taken mine,  as she forgot hers. She also forgot bath soap. I went to Dollar Gereral and got her some, but it was too "girly" smelling for her 6 year old as SHE did not want him smelling like a girl.
At breakfast, she comes over and tells us that the kids canot have breakfast as she forgot milk, we gave her ours and Raymond went out and got her a gallon later. Her two younger ones are hyper and she fed them spiderman cereal with green and orange round things, wonderful thing to keep hyper children ultra hyper. Last year I bought her Martha Stewart extenable marshmellow/hotdog forks, she had to borrow my Walmart ones since she forgot hers. She used the semi-real plates in the camper that she was unhappy that I did not let her throw them away after RJ Ranch last year. I use paper/styrofoam/ and plast ware when I can.
She left her dirty dishes sit out all night because she "forgot" to wash them after her dinner. I told her tht she ahd better be glad wild life was limited at Westmoreland, in the poconos,she may ahve been huntin for her dished all over the park.

Now this was not a last minute trip, she was told to get a couple of totes, in February and start putting stuff forcamping in them. she also forgot her portable gas grill, this was planned well before Easter, She and her brother want to go camping with her tent...I shudder to think what she will forget...I am staying home that trip, If Raymond wants to go more power to him and his credit card.

[tlhdoc]

:eyecrazy:    :p    :yikes:

Hang in there Paula, don't hang up.

[debbiedee1957]

Paula-
You have to quit camping with friends & relatives!!!!!  Strangers are a better bet!

LOL

[gsm x2]

Paula-
You have to quit camping with friends & relatives!!!!! Strangers are a better bet!
 
LOL

Maybe there should be an unwritten rule:
 
Camp only with people you have met on the Internet!
 
Does that now make it a written rule?
 
gsm x2

[tlhdoc]

Maybe there should be an unwritten rule:
 
Camp only with people you have met on the Internet!
 
Does that now make it a written rule?
 
gsm x2

If it is written on the internet is it really written? :confused:

[Starcraft Dad]

That is too funny. I think I would stay home on the next trip also. I had an experience with my SIL not knowing about pop ups. When they came up for the DS graduation we told them that they could sleep in the PU if they wanted to. When they got here it wasen't popped up yet (I wanted to show them how it worked). She looked at it and asked; how do you sleep and move around in that little bitty thing." Yes she is blond and I love her to death BUT she just couldn't get the idea that it all unfolded. Now that they slept in it for a week her and her hubby are looking for a used one. Should be interesting; they are both blond. Can you imagine.................:eyecrazy: :confused:
 
 

[campingboaters]

I have a friend that ACTUALLY admitted to throwing recipes away (that I gave her) because she knows that I'll just give them to her again!!  :yikes:  She NOW knows better that to 1) do that again and 2) ADMIT it to ME!
 
 I've camped with people like that and the bottom line is they "forget" things because they KNOW YOU are there to save them from themselves.  I agree with others... ONLY camp with strangers or people you've met on the internet!

[angelsmom10]

I would have given her directions to the Dollar store and tell her to go and buy what she needed, but then again, she may have gotten lost trying to leave the CG. :eyecrazy:

[SheBantam]

I , she may have gotten lost trying to leave the CG. :eyecrazy:

Nancy, you know her??? You have to. She was afraid to leave the campground for that reason.

She is the one that took a wrong turn in DC and did not figure out she was heading the wrong direction until she hit I70 at Fredrick MD...And she gets lost everytime she comes to our house...

[angelsmom10]

Our oldest DD is just like her.  She got lost one time and called someone and kept saying she was on 74, which everyone thought she was talking about I74 on the west side of Cincinnati, and we kept asking her were she was at (like what exit did she pass) and she kept saying she wasn't on an expressway, come to find out, she was in the next county east of ours on old SR 74, how she got there, we still do not know as she never got on any streets that head that way.

[Martorious]

... we still do not know as she never got on any streets that head that way.

That sound's like a case of "you can't get there from here!"

[dee106]

if you every loose your sanity again and invite her, or agree to her going with you, send her a check list reminding her what she will need.

[SheBantam]

if you every loose your sanity again and invite her, or agree to her going with you, send her a check list reminding her what she will need.

She's got one I mailed her. I modified Tim's list as some of the stuff was already in the camper or not applicable (as far as I was concerned, wine and wine glasses for example) and with children, she needed other things. --She lost that.

I dare not e-mail her the list as an attachment, she has no clue.

She probably will not be camping soon as she went skating over the weekend, her and her twin (not quite so dippy) fell and broke their wrists. She is supposed to fly out to California tomorrow by way of Pittsburg, Her hubby's dad is totally retired and offered to watch the 3 young uns and a dog. Well, hubby left her with the Conversion van and it has bald tires, she is afraid to drive that to Pittsburg with bald tires, a broken wrist, 3 kids and a dog.
So she called Raymond yesterday afternoon to ask if we knew of a kennel locally, that her FIL would not watch 3 kids and two dogs (we live 3 1/2 hours in the wrong direction from Pittsburg) so she could drop off the Lab/Rot mix at the kennel (I really think that she wanted up to dog sit her mass of bounding energy AND drive her, the three kids and the little dog to Pittsburg, actually, I really think that she thought her dad would take Friday off to drive down to Soloman's Island MD, pick her, the three kids and two dogs up in my minivan, drive them to Pittsburg and bring the big dog back home, then take another day or two off later next week and do the same.)

He gave her the name of our kennel, what she needs to have for Delaware as far as shots and Kennel cough, and told her that we are leaving town (going camping in Lewes DE) and will not be here on Friday.

He FORGOT that Symrna DE is going the wrong way to be feasible for a trip to Pittsburg with bald tires, a broken wrist, 3 kids and 2 dogs one to be left in a kennel. I don't know can this type of thing run in families???

[Campers3]

Man, I don't have anyting to compare.  Sounds rough.