The last few months the view out our windshield has been KOA Metro Louisville - site 53. It is a nice level paved pull through site with water, 30-amp electric and sewer. There is a nice shade tree and a grassy area. Most of the campers spend only one night in site 53, but a few stay a week or more.

During the summer I have watched RVs come and go in that site and I have come to the conclusion many RVers have no idea what they are doing. Campground workers show each camper to their site and help them park and center their rigs, then explain the hookups and answer any questions. Many pull through the site and when the campground worker motions to stop they roll another six feet and into the next street. Then they get out and look dumbfounded to see they overdrove the site. Even though it is a pull through at the correct angle one guy had to pull through and back up about six times and still ended up crooked in the site.

I watched one man work for two hours unhooking his utilities and hitching up his SUV so I knew he did not know what he was doing. He pulled out with his TV antenna up and his SUV was screaming as the rear wheels were not turning and was jumping up and down coming completely off the road. Then he gunned his motorhome and flew around the campground so fast I and two other men could not chase him down. When he got to the street in front of the campground he stopped and corrected his problem quickly, then flew down the road.

One couple stopped in site 53 and erected a twelve foot diameter fence in the grassy area for their six dogs. Shortly after they left a family arrived and the woman placed their baby in that same grassy area to crawl around.

One camper did not connect his sewer hose securely so he dumped his black tank on the paved and grassy areas. The next hour he tried to flush the mess away. I have noticed about ten percent of the campers stick their fresh water hose a couple of feet into their sewer hoses to rinse them out and of course later drink water from the fresh hose. One man even put on rubber gloves to work with his sewer hose (good idea) then he stuck his fresh water hose in the sewer hose. At least he kept his hands clean.

The latest campers had a 50-amp motorhome and a 30-amp to 50-amp adapter, but they didn't know how to use it so they did not connect to electric power and ran their generator instead.

You think those people were dumb. There was another that takes the prize for being the world's dumbest camper. A man asked me to go to his motorhome and show him how several items worked. He had a very nice 40 foot Allegro Bus with two slides and he did not know how most of the items in it worked. He had buttons and switches he had never touched because he did not know what would happen when he touched a button or flipped a switch. I asked him how long he had owned his motorhome and he said he and his wife had been traveling in it one year. This man had never thought to read the manuals that came with his motorhome.