Your most embarrassing/funny 4x4/camping moment

[KurtG]

I put gloves on before shaking your hand Manny, need to keep the grease off my hands (and the cabbage smell)...

[Mad Manny]

Story 1 - The tent

About 24 years ago a group of us decided to go on a camping/4x4 trip.
Please note: Back then - none of us did camping or 4x4'ing.

So we plan this trip, Brod is in charge of the plans - I think we went to Serendipity.
The guys sort out what we require - I'm told I need to bring a two man tent, a bed & a chair.

The weekend before I pop to Makro, I buy a tent - costs double what I expected.
I'm not happy as I'll probably only use it once.
Then to cut costs I buy a Neoprene Bedroll rather than a stretcher & I buy the cheapest camping chair Makro had.

The Friday arrives, I wanted to leave work early & meet at 15:00, but the guys said we HAVE TO leave by 13:00.
Back then, at Liberty life, if you left before 13:00 you had to apply for leave.
So I apply for half a day's leave - wasn't happy about it, but excited for the trip.

I get to the house where we were all meeting up & the plans a real are a stuff up:
Some guys are not meeting us we are meeting them.
Some guys are only arriving later due to work.
I was NOT impressed. I ask Brod why he didn't tell me & he shrugs his shoulders.
I lose it with him & throwa full beer at him, he dodges it & it smashes into the wall - had it hit him it would have killed him.

The guy with the 4x4 I'm going in isn't coming to fetch us so I have to take all my stuff & move it to Clyde's Jetta so we can go to him.
We get to his place move the stuff & get going.
By the time we (all 8 of us in 3 4x4's) have met up & are on the road its way past 14:00.
Then we stop for ice.
Then we stop for smokes.
Then we stop for fuel - the Sani has a V6 & uses 20l/100km.

We get lost, arrive late, it's getting dark & we are all half hammered.

We set up camp, drunk & in poor light. But I can't find my tent. Then we realise its on the back shelf of the Jetta!
Brod was supposed to take it out but forgot. I decide against throwing another beer at him.
Brod quickly sorts things out & we are now 4 in each tent, bit tight in the smaller one, but I'm in the big one - no ground sheet.

We then braai & get hammered. We have a good laugh. Clyde had to bring a case light. When he unpacks it, it's a Cadac gas heater!!!
At one stage I'm laughing so hard I throw my head back & my entire chair collapses into a mangled mess - which causes even more laughter.

Finally we head for bed, I lay out the Neoprene bedroll, get in my sleeping back & lie down - that Neoprene bedroll does nothing.
The floor is stony & rock hard.
The next morning that bedroll has contracted to the size of a small towel & I'm basically sleeping on the hard red ground.
So I get up & throw the bedroll in the same bin as my chair.
I decide camping sucks.

[LesseW]

Many years ago, when I was 17, I went camping/fishing (boozing) with my friends, we shared a large tent. I woke up at 2am to take a leak, still pretty hammered, and unzipped the tent. I let some water off and all of a sudden I felt a klap against my head.... i did not leave the tent fully and now some of my friends were wet....


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[Ricof4e]

At varsity I drove a 98' polo classic (the one with the big boot).

One night at a bar, at about 01:00am, my friends and I decide it is a good idea to immediately go fishing at Potch Dam. Obviously, we were as drunk as a skunk.

Went to my flat to grab some fishing gear and more booze and realised we didn't have enough money for all three of us and the car. So we decided that one must hide in the boot. Herman drew the short straw and got in the boot with all the papgooi gear.

Knowing he was in the boot, we drove everywhere we can (and over everything we can) to make his ride as miserable as possible.

Anyway, got to the gate, paid and off we went to look for a good fishing spot.

We got out (this was in deep in May) and the cold was too much, so we got back into the car to warm up and to drink some more.

I was the first to wake up at 08:00am that day, still in the car. Woke up my mates and went back home to treat our hangover.

When we pulled into the carport at my flat, we heard a loud banging noise coming from the boot. We forgot that Herman was still in the boot

[Mad Manny]

So is that why you had to leave South Africa & become a Northern Nambian?

[edg3]

I remember one time, several years ago, I pitched up to camp after hours on the road to find one thing I didn't think I needed for 2 nights camping: underwear.

Yeah, was a 'tiny' problem

[LesseW]

I remember one time, several years ago, I pitched up to camp after hours on the road to find one thing I didn't think I needed for 2 nights camping: underwear.

Yeah, was a 'tiny' problem

You can rotate and flip 4 times in total so the pair you had on was just fine.


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[Mad Manny]

Story 2 - The tent

So, the2nd part of the tent story of about 24 years ago:

Fast forward 16 years, it's 2012, I used to run a thing called GGX (Greater Gauteng West 4x4) a sort of forerunner to 4x4 AG, in away.
Anyhoo, I used to arrange day trails &weekends away. But because I didn't camp I booked Chalets or stayed in Ryno's 'Add A Room'.
The guys kept warning me that eventually I'd have to camp.

And Lo, it came to pass, that we (GGX), arranged a weekend at Moegatle. There was no chalet.
I said I'd use that 16 year old tent from Part 1 above.. The tent was 16 years old & I had never unzipped the bag.
Tannie Elize predicted that I'd unzip & find dead moths & a tent that had disintegrated.
There was a lot of ribbing about this tent & whether I'd no how to pitch it.

So, the weekend before the Moegatle trip I opened the bag & set up the tent to:
A). Check if it was OK.
B), Do a practice run.

The ten was still in perfect condition. I set it up, but in so doing, the colour coding markets showing you with poles go into which poles fell off.
So I used different colour insulation tape & re-coded it.
The pegs were plastic, easy enough to push into my lawn by thumb, but not good for Moegatle.
So I had 6 pegs made on Y12 rebar.

The next weekend, Friday night, I arrived at Moegatle. A crowd gathered to watch & fil Manny erecting a tent for the first time.
Little did they know I had practiced. I set up the frame work & got the tent laid out like pro.

Then I took one of my rebar pegs out & struck it with the mallet, it went into the ground about an inch.
I struck it again & a fountain of water about three inches high bubbled up. I had hit an irrigation water pipe.
This caused an outburst of mirth & laughter.

I moved the tent, someone called Alex of Moegatle & he had guys fixing the pipe in 30 mins.
The leak was in a big wet patch about an inch deep.

So, the first time I erected a tent I'd had for 16 years ended in disaster.

We still use that tent to this day - Tammy's kids set it up when we go camping....

[Mike Nel]

I do have a embarrassing story, but would not share it here. It’s way too embarrassing.

But one story I can share is when I still had the Ranger and went on a dunes trip in Nam. Left the canopy side windows open one night. Got intoxicated and proceeded to take a leak from out the Impi RTT only for all the piss to run down the canopy window back into the back of the Ranger. I had a drawer system in the back that was carpeted.

Clearly Mike has never been embarrassed while camping. No doubt embarrassing, but never embarrassed.

[Mad Manny]

I do have a embarrassing story, but would not share it here. It’s way too embarrassing.
But one story I can share is when I still had the Ranger...

You had a Ranger - now THAT is embarrassing...

[KurtG]

I have a very embarrassing story. Not sure I should share it, but let me go for it.

I once went camping with an oke called Manny.

The end.

I win

[Mike Nel]

I have a very embarrassing story. Not sure I should share it, but let me go for it.

I once went camping with an oke called Manny.

The end.

I win

You definitely win

[LesseW]

At a recent YEF of a 4x4 club, I walked to a new member and made fun of her and her (girl) friend living in sin by sleeping in the same tent.... i kept telling them how they should get married first and all those things. They assured me that they are not together and just friends.... i left with my foot in my mouth!

Bottom line: don’t listen to Manny, he will get you into k*k intentionally...

[Mad Manny]

Ill keep it short.

Kubu Island. Long drops. Far from the campsite.

I need say no more!!!!!

I think I heard this story - didn't you drop the kettle lid down the long drop?

[Ricof4e]

What was he doing with kettle in a long drop?