i find myself wondering the same thing. we're pretty new to caching.. so it takes us some time to make the find. its hard NOT to encounter muggles at this stage in the game.
here's a funny story for ya...
my partner in crime(P.I.C for short) and myself were out in an area close to our home that we THOUGHT we knew pretty well. as we were walking to the area where we thought we'd make the find, we noticed it was covered with swimming muggles. we continued down the path and came to a picnic table. we took a seat, contemplated what to do, and decided to check the area to see if we could see anything. all of a sudden we notice a man in a canoe right smack in the middle of the river fishing.. about 20 feet away from us. he must have seen us poking around and started rowing to shore.
P.I.C and I looked at eachother knowing well that we'd have to explain ourselves. he came ashore and made conversation. i mentioned we were 'looking for treasure' and ended up telling him what we were doing (he seemed like a cool guy). he said that he had been looking up caches in the area a few nights before and he knew there were a few in that particular area and started mentioning other cachers by username (bcc picnic to be exact). he said he knew what it was, but that he didnt have a GPS so he hadn't ever gotten a chance to go, and offered to help us look around a few potential spots.. all of them leaving us empty handed.
the man disappeared for about 5 minutes while we were searching right on the banks of the river. a 2nd and 3rd muggle came by in a paddle boat and asked 'what i was looking for'.. i said 'nothing'. P.I.C and i were about to give up. We walked back to the man's boat to say goodbye and thanks him for trying to help. He came from further down the trail and says "how long to you girls have?".. this confused us. he seemed to know all about caching when we first met, so i figured he knew that they were always there. then he says "tell ya what, i dont have much time here .. so i'll give ya a hint if you promise to post that the Freaky River Dude helped you find it".... so after some complaining on our part (we KNEW he knew where it was), we walked on down the trail. and sure enough..... about 150 feet from where we were looking.... there it was... staring right at us. he was nice enough to almost lead us off course so we could make the find ourselves.
anyway -- def. was in our best interest this time to make conversation. otherwise we never would have found it and would have left empty handed. instead we got a smiley... got to send some handmade jewelery out into the world...and left with some pretty funny memories :-)
those muggle cards are a fantastic idea, i'm going to print a few
