I could write volumes about some of the "nose up rear" people I have found on CC sites but for every negative there is a positive and even when seemingly surrounded by a sea of anti-social misery I have still found gems.
The one that always lights up my face is Ayr CC site, winter 2015. My van was covered in salt and mud when I arrived. The distaste many must have felt when I parked amongst their shiny, pristine white boxes. I was shattered, been driving through sleet, snow, mud, floods for days before emerging into somewhere civilised with showers and loo's and hot water.
I got out to hook up the electrics. Plugged a 10 metre into the van, clearly not long enough so attached another 10 metre, still three foot short of the bollard. I stood there looking totally vacant and stupid, with a blue end in one hand and the other hand in my hair wondering if I could shift the van sideways three feet when stood there was a lovely little man with another cable. "Here, borrow this, it's a spare"....
Nodding my grateful thanks and thinking about putting the kettle on and offering my kind neighbour a cup of tea when over popped his wife.... with a cup of tea for me! "I thought you might like this....".
That was it, no late night partying, no all afternoon telling me their life story or insisting they have a two hour nosey around my van, just plain, unadulterated, spontaneous kindness.
