Why do people walk across other peoples pitch

😂 Thats sounds like a typical equine. When we had our horse, the ride home was always a lot friskier than the ride out😂 Sideways sometimes, and he was often stuffed into a hedge to teach him manners. 

Oh dear. I have met people who react in that way - on Club sites , but not elsewhere. One told me that the grass strip between pitches that I was walking on was HIS grass strip.

You can alternatively greet your surprise visitor by saying, Hello, I’m Ray. Where are you from? Start a conversation. Be cheerful,  Invite him back for a chat. Friendliness is allowed.

One of the reasons I stopped using club sites (and the other one) is due to the falling standards, manners and general demeanour of clientel. I'm also not a fan of all these 'baracades' some campers erect around their pitches either. However, it's probably a good deterrant to stop people walking across your pitch. 

When the Caravan Club changed it's name to a more inclusive one, the Chairman was quoted as saying the Club was preparing to welcome a whole new breed of camper - whatever they might be. Well I personally don't like the new breed of 'campers' so will choose to stay away. I can only imagine with Covid restricting everyone's travel plans, sites will be over-run with this "new breed" very few, if any, will have bothered to pick up a Site Directory and read the rules.

Hi Euror, Well mention of Ray made me smile;

Lyrics
The truth be told, the truth be told
I'm worried about the future holds, the future holds
I'm starting to worry about Ray
The truth be told, the truth be told
I'm worried about the future holds, the future holds
I'm seriously worried about Ray

And if he was on my pitch in the past so would I! I have now learned, albeit with some lapses when provoked, to ignore it and have another drink.

This was prompted by being on a site with lines on the grass but other demarcation leading many to just take the shortest route from A to B.

I did ask a lady who walked  between our windbreak and the van to please not do so again but have accepted that I cannot change others behaviour-so wheres that corkscrew!

Oh, the song was by the Hoosiers.

Ever thought about taking a windbreak with you and erecting it on the boundary of your pitch effectively acting as a barrier?  I will be doing that in future and one would hope that people cutting across your pitch would get the message. 

That said -  on one site in Scotland last year, the site had erected a tape barrier to stop others using a short cut to another part of the site which meant walking over our pitch - people just ducked under it.  Even the evil stare did not deter them!

The Dog must be very well trained as in not growl or bark-mayhap just a threatening look & a whispered threat as anything else will fill these threads with Harumphers & ‘outraged of wherever town’ folk🤷🏻‍♂️

I know! Wrong ET 

Normal times I might well cut across an empty pitch or even the grass divider between two pitches if there appears to e nobody at home either side. 

I have occasionally advised somebody less able to cross the pitch when fetching water

A few years back somebody cutting between car and caravan got upset at me. I was sat on the front caravan seat when he walked into the edge of an open window. I admit that I should not have laughed as it probably hurt

 It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to explain.... the thoughts & expectations of a CMC member . 🤔

Basically it's pitch envy... they should have chosen your pitch but chose another instead, which turned out to be not in exactly the right place for their daily wanderings.

Taking a route through another member's pitch may save them yards.... FGS 🤔, it's not to be seen as an inconvenience, more a dare of defiance by said trespasser.

It's my belief that if only two members were on a site.... one would cross the others pitch... eventually . 😉🤭

I only use HS pitches and there is usually a grass strip between them. So 'my pitch' is clearly defined and I would get annoyed with someone on 'my gravel' while walking on the grass strip wouldn't.