+Poidawg Posted January 11, 2006 Posted January 11, 2006 I have corrupted my friend!! Im not sorry. It did not take long. Within hours of mentioning she could get a good price on a used Garmin etrex legend she was hooked. She now has the unit, a charger for the car, and is going off to corrupt her daughter and grandson. How many people have you turned on to geocaching, and do you know if they have turned someone else on to geocaching? Did those people stick with geocaching, not have enough time, or upgrade within months of getting their first unit? Quote
+Thrak Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 Only one so far - no idea if he will stick with it or not. Quote
+switchdoc Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 So far just TheWife. But I have plans... big plans... MUH HU HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Quote
+Davispak Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 My Brother and then he corrupted his friend...resistance is futile! you will be assimilated. Quote
+ZackJones Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 I've introduced a few friends to it. I will probably convert more though. I've been asked to give a site wide (approx 150 folks) briefing on Geocaching. Quote
+Harry Dolphin Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 I'm in New Jersey. I introduced my sister, in Maine to geocaching. She, and my brother in California, introduced my brother in Seattle to geocaching. So, we all apologize to the goodly cachers of Seattle for unleasing FunnyNose upon you. Sorry, dudes and dudettes. Quote
+Zzyzx Road Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 I think I have my 11 year old hooked. She had to mention in class what they did over the holiday, and her teacher seemed interested in the "Treasure Hunting" she mentioned...so there might be one more... My cousin's 3 boys (twins age 10 and one 14 year old) are hooked on diffeerent parts of it. The older one wants to make the hides, and the two others like finding them. They are looking into an (indestructable) inexpensive unit that they can have fun with...We ran into another cacher last weekend, we were the 2nd to find one of his new micros. Turns out he and my hubby and my cousin were all in the same class at school (long ago... ). So there is a ripple effect going on from each one of us, no matter whether or not we actaully see it. Quote
+TeamGuisinger Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 We took our neice and her husband who purchased a gps within a week. They then got his sister involved although she has yet to get a gps. We have turned-off far more people to geocaching than on. Funny what sissies some people can be. Quote
+GSVNoFixedAbode Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 Got a couple of people at work addicted, then heard a good while later that an article with me & another cacher in the local rag got a few more hooked. My work here is done Quote
+mb3 Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 One, so far - my former co-worker. I'll be working on a current co-worker soon. Quote
+BlueDeuce Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 I have converted many more strangers than family members (close or otherwise). I guess maybe if the relatives were more into hiking and such. Quote
+TheFreshwaterAnglers Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 Lets see...I've gotten my wife and three kids into it, as well as a friend of mine. I wonder who's next? TheFreshwaterAnglers Quote
Trinity's Crew Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 We have introduced quite a few people to geocaching. A few have started their own accounts and found caches on their own. Most haven't continued beyond a few finds. My niece is just getting started. She found 13 caches over the weekend. At that rate she'll pass me pretty quickly. Quote
+poperszky Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 Just presented it to a Church group of teenagers (Awana), about 15 of them. They are excited, and will start working with them on our property before we go looking for a real cache. Terry Quote
+MTGeoPirates Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 So far we're batting .500. The two co-workers I introduced tried a couple and then gave up. Our friends (two couples plus kids) that we got into caching have both really gotten into it. So, maybe our friends are more brainwash...uh, suscepti... open minded than my co-workers are. Quote
Hugh Jazz Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 I invited my whole inside sales team out to go caching one Friday at lunch. I went caching by myself that day. They all backed out. I won't ask again. I've been able to drag some of them one at a time out to go bag a cache while we're out on business trips in another city. If you've got a couple hours to kill between customer visits, it beats sitting in Starbucks the whole time, checking emails. Quote
+CamoCacher Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 My boss corrupted me originally. Now when a new cache comes out in the local area around our work I corrupt him and my other co-worker to rush out from work to go get it. I am soooooo evil! Quote
+Jhwk Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 It's funny, my brother-in-law introduced me to the sport a little over a year ago. He also did the same with RC cars, high power rocketry, scuba diving, etc. You get the idea. Well, this christmas we got back together and I asked him how his caching was going. He mumbled something about being "busy". When I said that I was approaching 200 caches, his jaw hit the floor. I think he was around 25-30. Since I had set up a new cache nearby requiring a waypoint projection, I asked him to come along for the hunt. He "forgot" to bring his old maggie with him, so I loaned him my eX600. I could see the wheels turning in his head the whole time. We talked about the sport, and I kept feeding his ever increasing list of questions. We covered the latest models of GPSr's and their relative strengths and drawback, the forums, GSAK, Cachemate, and paperless caching, google earth, M$$&T, using macs with geocaching, etc. When we had finished my cache, we went on to find 3 more that day. When he zoomed out the map and saw 150+ other caches available in the area, and I whipped out the palm and showed him the 800+ cache data points I tote around with me - he was done. I had to go back to work the next day, so we parted ways He was constantly peppering me with questions about the new eXplorist XL, and I kept telling him to wait for the new year, for Garmin to announce their latest systems. Well you know what happened... He called me about 3 days later, as giddy as a schoolgirl, telling me he was tracking his new XL as it shipped from Tiger. We have been in contact almost daily the last few weeks as he has rediscovered the beauty and excitement of geocaching all over again. Tuesday night he became a premium member, and I talked him through his first PQ, transferred it from the mac to the PC (don't ask - it's another long story) and uploaded the closest 150 waypoints to his new XL. He said "In one year, I have gone from the stoneage to the 21st century in geocaching" This was possible because of the efforts of all of you! Thank you for helping me help him. It is almost as fun as finding a 5/5 cache. Quote
+uncleboogie Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 I got into this addiction about 2-3 months ago. Convinced my wife into it, then told my brother and sister about it. Now I haven't even found one, long story but the time will come. My sister is on her 5th or 6th one now since they got a GPS for Xmas.......My brother's waiting for the snow to melt, but ready to go. I got a lot of catching up to do, for being the one that introduced it to family. Quote
+The Canning Clan Posted January 12, 2006 Posted January 12, 2006 it's like a disease here...we were introduced by a friend who just said"look it up". We have since introduced 3 other families, all of which went out and bought GPS same day. Worst thing is, they all have more finds than us now Quote
+GPSOkie Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 In a matter or less than two months, I've corrupted 5 co-workers Quote
+Three Strong and kid Silver Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 I am the manager of a cemetery and happened to notice a couple of strange fellows walking in circles aroung a particular area. Being the inquisative muggle I was I asked the two fellows what they were looking for. six months later I have not only hooked myself but my wife son and grandson (He is only two so saying he is hooked might be a stretch) Recently I spoke with my oldest son in Minnisoooottaa. He told me he has some friends who cache and he has been going with them. I may not be able to claim turning him on to it but it is interesting that we both have found a new hobby seperately. Quote
+Henki Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 My brother got hooked in November. He's got it baaaaaad. My sister likes to cache, but only goes with me - she doesn't have a computer or GPS. I've passed out 3 informational brochures in the past week. I'm beginning to feel like a pusher Quote
+I.R. Geonut Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 I'm on my first friend. Not sure if he'll get hooked or not. My 3 year old is hooked. So hooked that him and his friend will grab a coat, keys, boots, and hat, (and sunglasses) and go geocaching through the house lol. Quote
+Airmapper Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 I've got one friend into it, I don't think it going to be an addiction, but she helped me place a cache today, and has been to 2-3 of my other caches. Most people don't know what to think of it when I talk about caching. But these are the people who don't know what to think about my GPS either. Quote
+matfam Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 My daughters, ages 5 and 7, will take one of our old cell phones and play geocaching in the backyard. I'm sure my oldest is hooked. One day we were looking for a film container in a park and the conversation went as follows: DD: Daddy did you look up there in that tree Me: yep its not there DD: you didnt look good enough, look again ok Me: (grumbling) whatever DD: you should look again Me: I ALREADY DID DD: PLEASE LOOK AGAIN Me: ALRIGHT I looked......the cache was there SO she thinks she Ms cacher now.... Quote
+shay_m Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 Got a friend in work into it. As i sit here working in Dublin, the lucky fecker is rowing down a canal in Amsterdam (some business trip ehh!) looking for this one http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f6-f0fc819d6be3 Quote
+Poidawg Posted January 13, 2006 Author Posted January 13, 2006 I love all these stories. I just talked to my friend, truns out that her grandson just got his tonsils out, and they are working out the details so when he heads out, he can go informed. Just by happenstance, his new scouting group is going out to geocache this month, I can not wait to see how much the mom gets involved. Quote
+Magoonies Posted January 13, 2006 Posted January 13, 2006 I put a friend's x-mas present in an ammo box and hid it in the desert. Gave him the coordinates for X-mas. He pulled out the instructions to his GPSr and went hunting in the dark. I don't know if it will take yet but he is asking questions and his wife realy wants to go. Quote
+ZackJones Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 My wife isn't as addicted as I am but she is taking a speach class this semester and said that for her informative speach she was going to do it on Geocaching Quote
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