Do you have friends like this??

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

My wife and I were discussing how nice it is to be the same kind of outdoors people (we both want to camp much more than we have done lately), and she turned to me and said "{our friend} would probably like camping if she could saran wrap the outdoors!!" I almost wet myself! I think I have a new saying. Sad thing is it is true, she is so paranoid about parasites that she will not sit on grass or walk through grass if it can in any way touch her skin! And she is a vet tech so it does nothing to make her paranoia better.

Do you keep association with people like this, and any funny stories to share about them when they did try to go outside of their comfort zone- or conversely any success stories about how they did much better than you expected?

 

[Foilist]

My in-laws and extended in-laws are like this. They all think I'm insane.

 

[Bushman5]

yep , bunch of my buddies and I spent a MISERABLE weekend with one of their GF's. She would not stop complaining the whole time. Im cold, i'm wet, i bored, where is the showers, where is the bathroom, this food is not what i normally eat, the tent is smelly, the bugs are biting me,

whaaaaa whhaaaaa whaaaa....by the end of day two her boyfriend wanted to bury her somewhere.

 

[ratamahatta]

yeah my wife thinks I crazy cause I want to be outdoors, we live in the country and she says "Why would I wanna go out there when I can just look outside the window and see all the tree's".........

 

[akthor]

One of my best friend wives is Asian and she has cleaning OCD. You would swear no one lives in their house. It is so clean.

 

[Alberta Ed]

My fav is Ed Zern's comment in an Exit Laughing column. He wrote his wife has come to prefer something between her and the ground, preferably several stories of luxury hotel.

 

[TKAZ]

I have a few friends like that, they don't play in the woods or mountains with me. my best friend and wife are always by my side when we head to the mountains for camping and hiking. the 3 of us really don't care for the hot humid summer so alot of our outdoor activity is in the spring and again throughout the fall and into the winter. it seems the colder, wet and wild weather is the most fun. it's not easy but we do enjoy it and I feel it builds charachter. it's funny telling people what you do or what your into for fun and they think your nuts. I love hearing "you do what? why?"

There's nothing like being out there in the woods and/or mountains. it's truly relaxing and takes all the daily stress from the week away.

 

[markhait]

Yeah...my wifes idea of roughing it is when she has to stay at a Holiday Inn rather than a Marriott!

 

[remmmm]

I had a guy that was a friend of a friend go on a three day trip on Big South Fork, an amazing wild river, google it for pics. Anyway, the guy NEVER got in the water for three days in the middle of August. He said he was afraid of snapping turtles. I'll admit, I'm not going to go sticking my hands in crazy places like those noodling guys do, but these were clear beautiful pools between small sets of rapids. He said he had a buddy loose a toe to a snapper, which I have heard of, but he wouldn't even wade in on the sand bars, so I don't know what the real deal was....

 

[remmmm]

Yeah...my wifes idea of roughing it is when she has to stay at a Holiday Inn rather than a Marriott!

Same here! Strange thing is mine used to like to go when we were dating\engaged\first married, but she hasn't spent a night outdoors in years now.

I tell her all the time (jokingly) that I got tricked and that I want my money back

We flipped a canoe in some rapids and had a little bit of a scare and that was pretty much it. It's now officially referring to as "that one time you almost got me killed"

 

[hushnel]

My wife likes to camp with me and I have a good buddy that is up for most kinds of camping, though he isn't really up for spending time in the Everglades, neither is my wife. Other than that I don't know a soul that loves the wilderness. I used to live where it was the opposite, all my friends loved the wild places but down here, nada.

They all think I'm nuts, they also all say they want to be in my camp the day after the end of the world. I just smile at them and say you'll never make it past the cross hairs

 

[August West]

I know lots of people like yall are describing, in the Army no less, I wonder what they thought they would be doing when they joined. Chris

 

[x39]

A few years back an old friend of mine and his family came to visit us here in Maine. One day we decided to hike across the island they were staying on. At about the mid-way point there was a large outcropping of granite overlooking a heath with wind stunted pines reminiscent of Japanese bonsai. As my wife, friend, and I stood admiring the view, his wife said "I see a field with some trees. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here?"

 

[LMT66]

A few years back an old friend of mine and his family came to visit us here in Maine. One day we decided to hike across the island they were staying on. At about the mid-way point there was a large outcropping of granite overlooking a heath with wind stunted pines reminiscent of Japanese bonsai. As my wife, friend, and I stood admiring the view, his wife said "I see a field with some trees. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here?"

Me and my then wife were in Vegas for a week. Drove out the the Grand Canyon and she said after seeing it for the first time for a whole 5 seconds......... "It looks like a big hole in the ground....lets go back to the strip".
We split not long after that trip.

 

[DH1]

Can someone tell me what I'm missing here?"

"Humanity"

 

[The REAL Commander]

Most of my true friends have long since passed on, but I do seem to recall a few girls here and there that would come around with one of the boys who were like this. It always seemed to be the women who couldn't stand the thought of sleeping in anything less than a hotel. Oddly enough, my brother dated this real weird woman a long time ago who insisted they sell the house and permanently move to a campground to live in a tent. I never really understood her, heheh.

 

[pitdog]

My wife made up this caption pic of her sister after we had taken her camping for the very first time.
We booked the campsite etc before they had even left England so by the time they got here they could not really say no.
The fact that my son kept catching snakes around camp did nothing to help her fears.Even after giving her some hotdogs and beers you can still see the nervousness on her face eh !!!! The following day she said that she had actually come to enjoy it and thanked us for giving her the much needed push !!!!

 

[LMT66]

Even after giving her some hotdogs and beers you can still see the nervousness on her face eh !!!! The following day she said that she had actually come to enjoy it and thanked us for giving her the much needed push !!!!

I know I need to have a few beers when I stay in a hotel. Those rooms are just creepy!!! Different person in the same bed every night, everything feels like it's sprayed with Silicone, and the black light stories horrify me.

Give me a tent anyday!

 

[myright]

My in-laws and extended in-laws are like this. They all think I'm insane.

yeah - that about says it for me too

I work in a white collar environment so 90% of the people I work with think I'm a maniac for even camping at all. People really crack me up.

I really do attribute my love for the outdoors to the Boy Scouts since my Dad was not and outdoors person.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

A few years back an old friend of mine and his family came to visit us here in Maine. One day we decided to hike across the island they were staying on. At about the mid-way point there was a large outcropping of granite overlooking a heath with wind stunted pines reminiscent of Japanese bonsai. As my wife, friend, and I stood admiring the view, his wife said "I see a field with some trees. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here?"

Dude--I've had people ask me how long it takes a deer to grow into a moose.

I've also had the following conversation:
"Hey--have you guys been having a drought lately?"
"No--why?"
"Well your lake is really low!"
"We call that lake the Atlantic Ocean"
":foot:"

My manager hasn't walked more than a mile in four years, and then it was because we were at the SHOT show after hours for a special event (so the shuttles weren't running) and the hotel was only 5 miles away. He complained the whole way back.