Camping can be incredibly relaxing - it's a great way to reconnect with nature. Getting out into the great outdoors sounds good on paper. But once you arrive at the campground, you have to assemble the tent (where's that missing last piece that is somehow crucial to the tent staying upright?) Then, you might see a big bug (or fifty). And the local wildlife will make themselves known - you're in their house, after all. Camping can be so much fun when you relax and unwind, as long as you don't en…

She may not have gotten the camping trip she had planned, but she survived to live a great tale!

Based in Flagstaff, AZ—she works in recreation and trails and finds herself alone in the middle of this huge forest every day.

The entitled mom needed the reality check.