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we had front row seats from our caravan a few years back for some novices....
A couple arrived in their car and they laid out the tent and moved it around to find the best spot and opening the the right place. But there it lay for a while as they proceeded to unload the car. By this time it was nearly dark, so we thought nothing more of it as we closed the blinds...until we heard much slamming of car doors and the car driving away and we realised that they had packed up and left...
But it didn't end there!
The next day they returned and unpacked the tent from the car, lay it out as before, and threaded the poles etc. but were trying to get the poles to dig into the ground, but it was failing to take shape.
After half an hour of this they still didn't have the tent up and I had begun to realise that they didn't know how to put up said tent....so I did go and help, and we had it up in 10 minutes or so.
Turns out it was a new tent, and they had never put any such thing before. So were very grateful of my guidance (I have put up more varieties of tent than I can remember so it was easy for me, but with no instructions for a novice it was understandably an impossibility!)
Turns out that they had forgotten the tent poles the night before, and I cant recall, but they may also have forgotten the pegs, so they had returned home and come back to try again.
It was their first ever nights camping, so didn't get off to a good start, but they seem pleased to have come back and tried again.
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Topic: Camping hilarious neighbours!
