Now I'm always very careful to take note of one way systems and drive at the speed limit on sites. Coming back late one night, I was driving around towards my van on a route which from what I could see of signs was perfectly acceptable. A few people were walking in the road I was pulling out onto. At first I got confused which way I needed to go so started turning out to the left, quickly spotted the arrow pointing the other way, so backed up and turned out the other way. People coming the other way were close so I just stopped and patiently waited so they could walk around my car. A "man" who I will refer to as "husband" decided to make a smarmy sarcastic remark about one way systems being too complicated for me. I just said I'm taking a permitted route, just made a tiny error. At which point woman who I will refer to as "crazy wife" appeared and started laying into me and referring to me as a male appendage. Now stupidly, I sunk to her level and insulted her back, at which point all hell broke loose. Screaming at the top of the her lungs at me like she was demonically possessed. From that point on, there was absolutely nothing I could say to calm her down. Even though she was insulting me left right and centre, I apologised for insulting her, but on and on she went. All this was going on while Husband who made initial smarmy remark gallantly waited 20 metres away in silence. In the end I just let her finish saying her piece and march off. I suppose mentioning she was in breach of noise curfew would have antagonised her even more! 
TBH it really shook me up and has left me stewing over it for days after. Even if I had done something wrong, there was just no need for the abuse. I wasn't driving aggressively or putting anyone in danger. This was on a club site of all places where one expects a better standard of caravanner. I accept that I probably aggravated the situation by insulting her back but it's really hard not to retaliate when someone just starts calling you names out of the blue. She seemed absolutely incandescent that I had dared to insult her, but it was OK for her to call me names. I do suspect though that these people were walking back from the pub boozed up and fancied having a pop at someone. Thankfully, these were the odd ones out. Everyone else I met on the site was really nice. In fact, in all my tenting days and more recently, caravanning, I don't think I've ever had so much as a cross word with anyone, just friendly chit-chat, which is the way it should be. I thought about reporting it to the wardens, but it would have just been three people's word against mine. Didn't know where they were pitched either.
After speaking to my neighbour, I found out there was a more direct way of getting to my van so at least I wouldn't end up in conflict with them again.
Has anyone else had to deal with such obnoxious nasty people on a campsite?
TBH it really shook me up and has left me stewing over it for days after. Even if I had done something wrong, there was just no need for the abuse. I wasn't driving aggressively or putting anyone in danger. This was on a club site of all places where one expects a better standard of caravanner. I accept that I probably aggravated the situation by insulting her back but it's really hard not to retaliate when someone just starts calling you names out of the blue. She seemed absolutely incandescent that I had dared to insult her, but it was OK for her to call me names. I do suspect though that these people were walking back from the pub boozed up and fancied having a pop at someone. Thankfully, these were the odd ones out. Everyone else I met on the site was really nice. In fact, in all my tenting days and more recently, caravanning, I don't think I've ever had so much as a cross word with anyone, just friendly chit-chat, which is the way it should be. I thought about reporting it to the wardens, but it would have just been three people's word against mine. Didn't know where they were pitched either.
After speaking to my neighbour, I found out there was a more direct way of getting to my van so at least I wouldn't end up in conflict with them again.
Has anyone else had to deal with such obnoxious nasty people on a campsite?
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