Tell me about the dangers of camping

**Idec Sdawkminn** · 06-27-2008 09:25 PM

My girlfriend and her female cousin were planning on going camping just by themselves because it would be while I'm at work. Her cousin didn't want to go somewhere very far away in case of an emergency because it was only them girls. My girlfriend said she doesn't blame her and it would be a different case if I or her cousin's boyfriend were there.

Now here's the problem, and this seems to always be the problem: I asked why. She said that in case someone gets hurt and they have to go to a hospital, for example, they would be far away from the hospital here. I said they could go to a hospital near where they were. She said it would be unfamiliar territory. Okay. It would also be unfamiliar territory to me even though I'm a guy, so I didn't see the difference. She said it is a safety factor. I asked if she was afraid she wouldn't be able to defend herself against someone. She said "no", that "if you put (her) and (her) cousin together (they) could beat up pretty much anyone, but that's not the point." I wondered what the point was. She said that they have to sleep sometime and they also aren't immune against guns and knives. I said that us guys have to sleep sometime also and we are just as vulnerable to guns and knives. She said she and her cousin are deep sleepers. I asked what if I was a deep sleeper.

Anyway, I was trying to understand how it would be less safe for her cousin and her to camp further away just by themselves, being big and tough enough to beat almost anyone up, than it would be if I went with them. She was just getting frusterated at me and was saying I was just being difficult on purpose and that the bottom line is that they aren't going to camp very far away, so why was I still trying to convince her to? I said I wasn't, I was just trying to understand more about the situation, but would research it online, then, since she wouldn't explain it to me. In a last moment of anger, she said she wouldn't go camping with me anyway.

So, seeing as I haven't gotten much of an answer, I'm asking you, my fellow forum-goers.

**jacobo** · 06-29-2008 06:49 AM

wow.

dumbass.

**edit**

i'm sorry. was that inappropriate? i mean...

"wtf?"

**end edit***

**Croneus** · 06-29-2008 09:05 AM

Bears. Just watch the Colbert Report, he speaks nothing but the truth.

**Pyrofan1** · 06-29-2008 09:37 AM

West nile virus
Bears
Rapists
Wildfires

that's all i can think of now.

**i make it rain** · 06-29-2008 08:42 PM

Last time I checked, men were equally powerless against guns...

...unless you have my rock hard pecs of course.

I think they should worry more about this:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/0...her/index.html

Plus if bears are caught in the tornado, now you have flying bears.

**Semja** · 06-29-2008 09:16 PM

The dangers of camping:

Splitting up with your girlfriend.

**seeker28** · 06-29-2008 10:28 PM

The dangers of camping:

bears
bear-sized mosquitos
sunburned bears
bears eating your marshmallows
bears stealing your girlfriend

But, seriously, having a guy around is a deteerent against the women-stealing yokles. Thems folks likes womens to be on theirs owns-sss.

**Idec Sdawkminn** · 06-30-2008 05:17 PM

Thank you for your answers. All of these, however valid dangers to camping, aren't more of a danger to camping further away than closer. I'm thinking it's just a "feeling safe" kind of thing, when she really won't be any safer.

**Serkat** · 06-30-2008 06:12 PM

**psychology student** · 06-30-2008 06:30 PM

I was informed that you should beware of "Seabears", from the cartoon SpongeBob Squarepants.

**seeker28** · 06-30-2008 09:18 PM

I suspect her fear has everything to do with being female and nothing to do with the kinds of dangers you (as a guy) might think of. Unfortuneatly, in Western culture, girls and women are taught to fear. Mainly to fear unknown males.

**Man of Steel** · 07-01-2008 03:04 AM

Yeah, seriously though... "I'll go online to research it more!"

Go ask your dad. That's what he's for.

**lysergic** · 07-01-2008 03:08 AM

well quite frankly, i'd be worried about Sasquatch, chupacabras, and aliens...

**seeker28** · 07-01-2008 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by lysergic

well quite frankly, i'd be worried about Sasquatch, chupacabras, and aliens...

lulz! But really,

have you read some of those first-hand encounters with those critters!!!! Gave me nightmares!

**Man of Steel** · 07-01-2008 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by seeker28

lulz! But really,

have you read some of those first-hand encounters with those critters!!!! Gave me nightmares!

You mean like this one?

Spoiler for Not for the faint of heart:

It's eyes glared back at me from the frightening reptilian goat-like visage. I will never forget those eyes. They were huge, the size of saucers, and they had an evil red glow to them, like the tail-lights of my van, parked altogether too far away. The flashlight in my hand quivered, I somehow found the presence of mind to wonder how my trembling hand still grasped its steel barrel. My eyes locked with the creature, this beast of Mexican legend. I've never been one to fear much, least of all things that go bump in the night. But this monster didn't just go bump, it went bump-roar-scream-sickening-crunch-wet-ripping-sound-no-more-scream-then-heavy-footsteps-followed-by-more-bumping. And that scared the shit out of me.

Literally, I'm not ashamed to admit.

Why be ashamed when you're going to be eaten alive in a matter of moments? At least I wouldn't smell good in the process.

The thing's eyes narrowed, its face scrunched up in a scowl, and the most horrible noise I've ever heard came from its impossibly toothy maw. It was like a cross between fingernails on a chalkboard and a predatory lion. With a bit of foghorn and chainsaw engine thrown in for good measure. Then, as if to assert its authority, it rose up even higher than its already formidable seven and some-odd feet, thrust its chest out, and after a couple of ululations, exhaled in a mighty blast of rancid snot. I could smell my camping partner's intestines on the chupacabra's breath. It turned my stomach, and before I could think to stop it, I projectile vomited directly into the creature's face. My eyes closed for the briefest of moments, and when I opened them it was gone.

It came back from behind me, and took my legs.

I was left to stare in horror at the grisly stumps as it crashed through the brush back to its lair. What was left of my legs mocked me, jeering that I would never live to tell my tale. If I did live, I would forever be a cripple. Pouring blood, the ragged, torn stumps were sobering, and I felt myself grow faint. Just the sight of my shattered bones protruding from them, the red, oozing meat and pulsing purple veins hanging out like gutted electric wiring, nearly caused me to pass out. The shock was simply too much.

The chupacabra never did come back, but I woke at dawn to feel a new painful yet strangely comforting sensation at the end of my newly shortened thigh. I had tied it off best I could the night before, and so saved myself from death by blood loss, but the wolf trying to eat what was left didn't seem perturbed. I beat it over the head with my flashlight, somehow still clutched in my right hand, and it fell unconscious beside me. I got lucky, it thought I was dead, or mostly so, it had to have. I know I did. I bludgeoned the wolf to death with my flashlight, or at least I'm pretty sure it was dead, and lived off of its flesh for three days. I'm almost positive I did that. If it was a dream, it was an awfully gamy, tough, raw one. I'd barely made a dent in the lean wolf before I was found by park rangers.

No one believed my tale. They all thought I'd eaten too many magic mushrooms. But I, and now you, I hope, know it to be true.

Never camp in the open in south New Mexico, you never know what might sweep you off your feet, and take them with it in the doing.

**ray** · 07-02-2008 01:40 AM

are they a wee bit ditzy much?they are in the same amount of danger where ever they go...and most of the people i have met camping are really nice.the only thing you need worry about that won't run from you would be a grizzly.black bears to mountain lions to moose run from people.

**Conundrum** · 07-02-2008 01:44 AM

I submit to you one of the best reasons not to let your girlfriend get in any situations that may prove... 'provacative (girls will be girls)'

Taken From xkcd.com

**Idec Sdawkminn** · 07-02-2008 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

Yeah, seriously though... "I'll go online to research it more!"

Go ask your dad. That's what he's for.

Haha, I agree. I half said that to show her that I wasn't trying to convince her to do otherwise, I was just asking out of curiosity. I'd ask my dad but he'd probably be as confused as me about it. My mom's probably a better choice.

**Man of Steel** · 07-03-2008 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by Idec Sdawkminn

Haha, I agree. I half said that to show her that I wasn't trying to convince her to do otherwise, I was just asking out of curiosity. I'd ask my dad but he'd probably be as confused as me about it. My mom's probably a better choice.

Haha, okay. You have a point there.

**cuddleyperson** · 07-03-2008 10:23 PM

maybe because of she goes far away she can't secretly invite all her other friends and that other boyfriend you don't know about and have a kick ass party in the middle of the forest and more drugs then you could shake a rapist yokel riding a grizzle bear at!

Not to make you paranoid or anything, just my one penny( current inflation rate makes 1 penny= 2 cents)

**ThePhobiaViewed** · 07-05-2008 07:26 PM

I've gone camping once and all we had to worry about was the semi-automatic weapon shots all night long, lets just say that next time we are going to stay in the modern campground.

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