+piscatore Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong - it will. As relates to geocaching 1st Corollary : If anything can get wet - it will. Any more? Quote Link to comment
+Kathi & the Grouch Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Murphy's Laws for Travel Bugs: If you head out to a cache in order to pick up a particular bug or coin, by the time you get there it will be gone. The greater your travelbug's goals, the more likely it will be to (pick one): - immediately be picked up by a new cacher who will then lose interest for the sport - get claimed by a child who can't bear to part with it, and whose parents can't bear to spoil their kid's fun by making them put it back - get placed in a bug hotel with a dozen other bugs that are more visually appealing, thus ending up a virtual wallflower for the next nine months Quote Link to comment
+Evil Homer Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Feeling guilty attracts police... Gps signal is inversely proportional to the importance of the cache to you. Important things are always simple. Simple things are always hard. Hard things are always micros. You find caches in the last place you look...always. The chances of running into a ''insert dangerous animal name here'' is inversly proportional to said animals population in the area. Everything always works at home, everything always fails on location. Permanently archived caches are the ones you REALLY would like to do. Frank Quote Link to comment
+wandererrob Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 in the general spirit of good ol' Murphy: - anything that can interfere with your signal will - if you need to bring your own pen/pencil, you will forget to - if you need new batteries you won't have any on hand Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 If there are two way's to the cache, one being blocked. You will pick the blocked one first. Quote Link to comment
+switchdoc Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 If the cache is on the one side of the river, you will always end up on the OTHER side when you hike in. This also applies to ravines, cliffs, and other assorted natural barriers. Quote Link to comment
+CharlieP Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 If you continue on the trail, hoping it will loop around and bring you close to the cache ... it won't. If you leave the trail and bushwhack a quarter mile through rough terrain to the cache, when you get there, you will see the trail 40 feet away. Quote Link to comment
nobby.nobbs Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 the one time you walk away from the cache without checking you still have your keys and wallet. will be a long hike from the car. and you will not think to check until you get to the car. then you get that horrible cold feeling when you rapidly run out of pockets to check as you slowly realise that you've not finished walking for the day. Quote Link to comment
rynd Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 If you plan to go cacheing on a weekend that you have nothing else planed: you will have by the time the weekend gets here. If you decide that you will not have enough time to go caching this weekend you'll only realize that you actually did have enough time after it's too late. Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 If you continue on the trail, hoping it will loop around and bring you close to the cache ... it won't. If you leave the trail and bushwhack a quarter mile through rough terrain to the cache, when you get there, you will see the trail 40 feet away. CharlieP, Yes, Yes, a thousand times! YES Dang, I could even change my siggy line for that gem Quote Link to comment
+wandererrob Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 If you continue on the trail, hoping it will loop around and bring you close to the cache ... it won't. If you leave the trail and bushwhack a quarter mile through rough terrain to the cache, when you get there, you will see the trail 40 feet away. if I had a nickel for every time... Quote Link to comment
+Tharagleb Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 CharlieP wins the thread! Quote Link to comment
+Elde Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 the one time you walk away from the cache without checking you still have your keys and wallet. will be a long hike from the car. and you will not think to check until you get to the car. then you get that horrible cold feeling when you rapidly run out of pockets to check as you slowly realise that you've not finished walking for the day. Problem solved: Carry your 'clicker' and one key on one key ring, and another key (along with your house/etc. keys) on another. It's almost impossible to get locked out that way. (Plus my wife has keys to my car in her purse.) Quote Link to comment
+Sugar Glider Sweatshop Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 The more time you spend searching for a cache you can't find, the quicker your spouse/partner/friend will spot it tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
+Moose Mob Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 the one time you walk away from the cache without checking you still have your keys and wallet. will be a long hike from the car. and you will not think to check until you get to the car. then you get that horrible cold feeling when you rapidly run out of pockets to check as you slowly realise that you've not finished walking for the day. Problem solved: Carry your 'clicker' and one key on one key ring, and another key (along with your house/etc. keys) on another. It's almost impossible to get locked out that way. (Plus my wife has keys to my car in her purse.) And magnetic key holders do have purposes other than geocache containers. Quote Link to comment
+dkwolf Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 the one time you walk away from the cache without checking you still have your keys and wallet. will be a long hike from the car. and you will not think to check until you get to the car. then you get that horrible cold feeling when you rapidly run out of pockets to check as you slowly realise that you've not finished walking for the day. Problem solved: Carry your 'clicker' and one key on one key ring, and another key (along with your house/etc. keys) on another. It's almost impossible to get locked out that way. (Plus my wife has keys to my car in her purse.) And magnetic key holders do have purposes other than geocache containers. a little OT, but only if you enjoy a false sense of security and the subsequent crushing of hopes when you realize--when it's needed--that the magnetic key holder fell off on one of your trips through the car wash or a bouncy off-road jaunt. A spare door key wrapped in plastic and WIRED to the frame of the car or a bolt on the bumper is much more secure--and easily hidden. Quote Link to comment
+gchance Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 the one time you walk away from the cache without checking you still have your keys and wallet. will be a long hike from the car. and you will not think to check until you get to the car. then you get that horrible cold feeling when you rapidly run out of pockets to check as you slowly realise that you've not finished walking for the day. Problem solved: Carry your 'clicker' and one key on one key ring, and another key (along with your house/etc. keys) on another. It's almost impossible to get locked out that way. (Plus my wife has keys to my car in her purse.) And magnetic key holders do have purposes other than geocache containers. a little OT, but only if you enjoy a false sense of security and the subsequent crushing of hopes when you realize--when it's needed--that the magnetic key holder fell off on one of your trips through the car wash or a bouncy off-road jaunt. A spare door key wrapped in plastic and WIRED to the frame of the car or a bolt on the bumper is much more secure--and easily hidden. Why not attach the keys to the GPS? Greg Quote Link to comment
+piscatore Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 I lose my keys occasionally. If they were attached to the GPS, I'd lose that at the same time. Also, the GPS swinging back and forth on the key chain while driving and banging on my knee would drive me nuts. Quote Link to comment
MapheadMike Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 More from Murphy: The privacy you had when you retrieved that urban cache won't be there when it's time to replace it. Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Only cachers with kids and grandkids think its a good idea to hide them in/near playgrounds. Quote Link to comment
dutchmaster Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 New cache listings only pop up AFTER you get back home. dutchmaster Quote Link to comment
+matfam Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 New cache listings only pop up AFTER you get back home. dutchmaster I kinda like that then I have a chance to get to the cache before the elusive Pablo Mac Quote Link to comment
+piscatore Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 A little research uncovered these gems. You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics: Things get worse under pressure If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage the probability of being observed is in direct proportion to the stupidity of ones actions Junk abhors a vacuum. It will grow to fill available space If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic Behind every little problem there's a larger problem, waiting for the little problem to get out of the way To know Murphy's Law is to draw its attention Quote Link to comment
+Davispak Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 You will rip the logbook ziploc bag the cache after you use your last ziploc bag. flashlights are for storing dead batteries the batteries in your GPSr will die approximatley halfway between the cache and the car (where the spare batteries are) That dog will NOT be on a leash/chain or behind a fence The muggles will walk by just as you pull the cache out of its hideing spot Quote Link to comment
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