Friday 23 August 2019

Man Starts 'Camping Sucks' Petition



A camping trip turned out to be so disastrous for Bill Mersean that he's now started a petition called Camping Sucks to have sleeping under canvas banned. After one week 7,876 people have already signed.

Bill, 47, from Newcastle, said, "That goes to show how many of us are pissed off with the whole camping experience. Sleeping in tents when there are perfectly good hotels and guest houses is absolutely stupid."

He had taken his wife Susie, 45, and two daughters Chloe, 14, and Stephanie, 12, to a site deep in the North Wales countryside for what he hoped would be a relaxing and fun break. 

The problems started before the family had even left Newcastle. 

"There was just so much we had to take," he said. "Stuff was piled so high on the roof rack that before we got to the motorway we were stopped by police who said it was dangerous. So that meant we had to unload half of it and I left Susie guarding the essentials while I drove off home again to take back the inessentials.

"When you realise the 'inessentials' included a lantern, four chairs and a camping table you can see what a mess we were in."

Undaunted, they carried on with their journey finally arriving at the campsite just as it was getting dark. 

"It took me two hours to pitch the tent. I could hardly see a hand in front me as we had left the lantern at home. I hit my finger with a hammer, sprained my ankle tripping over a guy rope and partially impaled my leg on a tent peg," he said.

The family was so tired that they slept late. By the time they got up, the showers were in a less than perfect condition.

"It was like trying to get clean in a mudhole on the Serengeti after elephants, rhinos and wildebeest had used it," said Bill. "The loos were absolutely disgusting. We all sloped off to the nearby woods to do our business.

"The kids moaned the whole time because there was no wi-fi and nothing to do for miles. They couldn't sleep because they were afraid of snakes and spiders.

"We were just about coping and had one nice barbecue before the rains came. Then everything was like a mudhole after a monsoon. We were literally ankle-deep in the stuff," said Bill.

"Then we all got food poisoning because the barbecue burgers weren't cooked through properly. Honestly, it was the longest two days of my life."

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