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Originally Posted by pmclemore
With utmost respect, I'm with the guy from across the park, and with the guys who couldn't hear the birds.
Quiet generators are bad enough. Contractor generators in public campgrounds are beyond the pale. I just can't understand the rathionale that suggests that this can ever be "nice". But that's what makes the world go around, I guess. There are also folks who believe that their spit cups look like iced tea to other folks.
Pat
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Pat,
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Hypothetically, if I were running my noisy generator (which I avoid because I hate the noise too, and that is why I got the inverter) and a neighbor were to approach me with the respect that I grok from your reply you could bet money I would turn it off.
Hypothetically, if my neighbor in his 30 year old Airstream and 1975 Suburban and his three grandkids camping in the Needles in Utah in July with the outside air temp reading 100+ in the shade wanted to run his generator to cool off a bit (I resemble that remark, or at least did not too long ago) I would not begrudge him.
Personally speaking when I park it in a public campground in tourist season I am not expecting to find a pristine wilderness experience, and will only stress myself out letting myself get upset about Joe Blow's generator. In situations like this, this quote comes to mind "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?". I'd rather be a happy camper.
Generally I agee with 99.9 % of your position. But there are exceptions to everything.
Let me point out again in the example in my above post I was in a campground loop designated for generator use, the only one in the campground. There were at least 4 or 5 other loops where no generators were allowed. There were plenty of vacant sites in the other non generator loops. I was there first. This guy was at least 100' feet away from me. I was using my generator within hours specified by the rules. I did turn the generator off shortly thereafter, but under those circumstances did not feel I was being unreasonable in using the generator.
As far as the birders, sure my generator bugged them. So did my grandkids riding their bikes and hunting desperados, and so did my dogs who scared the birds away. But that's another story. Don't get me started about doggie rules.
For Cripes sake it's a campground. Have fun. Stop worrying about those obnoxious neighbors. Go over and talk to them. Maybe they will turn the bugger off or maybe you might even make friends. We have in great part lost the best part of the camping experience of finding common, or divergent, ground with our neighbors. We are the poorer for it.
If you want bird noises find a place where you can get away from the unavoidable accoutrements of public campgrounds, which I have been known to do myself on occassion.
What do you other streamers out there think?
Sincerely,
Just another cynical ex-hippy now working for the establishment
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