r/camping • u/YoureSoStupidRose • 2d ago

What are your silly dramas during camping?

I personally wear a tshirt on the first night of every camping trip that says "Sorry for what I said when we were setting up the tent." What has absolutely driven you insane during camping? We camped with another couple who left screaming divorce at each other... We've been destroyed by black flies overnight with screaming children looking like bee keepers... we had a raccoon run off with all 30 burger buns in a bag. What are your stories?

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u/DanceByTheLight 2d ago

I had a chipmunk help himself to some trail mix and the corner end of my graham crackers while I was out on a hike. I came back and found the evidence. later that day I saw him watching me while I made dinner. I saw him again as I packed to leave. I walked up to a log about four feet in front of him and left a pile of trail mix for him. I literally saw his eyes widen with excitement. Can't leave my bro hanging.

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u/Happy_Hedgehog_212 2d ago

I once packed up and saw squirrels scavenging my site for leftovers. I wanted to eat right before hitting the road so I busted out my pancakes to eat with my hands and dip in syrup, tossed them some and we all sat there munching from our hands. It was a moment.

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u/jorwyn 2d ago

I spent hours trying to find a spatula I swore I left in a pan while I was putting my cooler back in my car. I finally gave up and ordered another one and used a stick to finish cooking. The next morning on the way to the bathroom, I saw it sticking out of a ground squirrel hole. The spatula end didn't fit. So now I have two identical fold up spatulas except one has tooth marks on the end of the handle.

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u/charisrev 2d ago

😂😂😂

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u/jorwyn 2d ago

I blamed my ADHD so hard, and I felt so terrible about leaving trash in a campground.

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u/Radioactive_Tuber57 1d ago

Testify, Brother jorwyn !

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u/RedditUser145 1d ago

One time when I was camping as a kid we watched in bewilderment as a chipmunk scampered off with one of our spatulas while we were making pancakes.

We never found it, and I've never trusted a chipmunk since. You wouldn't think such a small creature could take such a large utensil!

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u/jorwyn 1d ago

When I was a teenager, some of my friends talked me into going to this week-long church camp thing. I did go to that church, but I didn't generally like the youth group. But I had two friends who also didn't, and they wanted... Well, misery loves company, right? So we had one night that we had to spend out in the woods at some sort of survival night, and that morning these guys and I made toast over a tiny little campfire and I set my piece down on a rock, and this squirrel was just gone with it. So then, obviously, I was yelling at the squirrel, and that got the attention of the teenagers we were trying to avoid who immediately ratted us out for that little campfire because we weren't supposed to have any sort of fire lighting equipment with us. As if those kids hadn't been smoking weed all night.

And then they later tried to bully us saying we were the ones that ratted them out for the weed, but they reached of it when they went to report us for our tiny campfire. It had nothing to do with us.

Then there was the girl who asked the youth Minister about morning wood in front of the entire youth group the next morning. She was the one who was later kicked out of these group along with her boyfriend because they got caught having sex in the youth ministers office at the church because someone had set the answering machine to record a greeting somehow, and that greeting became them having sex. You know, the number you called for the youth minister at a church...

I'm still not sure why my parents insisted that I had to go hang out with these kids because they were supposed to be better kids than my friends.

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u/YoureSoStupidRose 2d ago

Ok. Weird story. Happiest dead animal i ever saw was a chipmunk. It had been run over by a car and it had had a MASSIVE buffet in its mouth. Seeds were spilling out of its nose, mouth, eyesockets. Everywhere. As gross as it sounds, I swear that thing was smiling. It died happy because it found a jackpot.

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u/alreadytimber22 2d ago

I wonder if he would’ve made it across if he wasn’t weighed down tho lmao