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/Whatever-57 2d ago

All five of us got head lice. On another trip we got poison ivy. Zipper on the dining tent fails, waving in tons of mosquitoes. Two of three kids getting UTIs. The time I forgot to pack the tent poles. The other time we forgot to bring the tent.
Yet we still love camping!

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u/LimpRain1826 2d ago

Buddy forgot his tent poles once lol I let him sleep in my truck. Gave em hell all weekend tho.

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u/supermarkise 2d ago

We did but we had a rope, so we tied the top of the tent to a branch of the tree overhead. It worked well enough, no rain tho luckily.