Jalynne Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Please add to the list...here's mine to start with. 1. You stay up until 1:30 am finding caches to look for when you go on your bike ride the next day, and you only started hunting three days ago. jymNjenn Quote Link to comment
+Whistlen Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 You base your family vacation on caches that you can find while getting from point A to point B! Quote Link to comment
+What rock? Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 (edited) You switch from Big Macs to Happy Meals just so you can get some swag. You take the long way home in the rain just to get some more caches. Edited April 30, 2006 by What rock? Quote Link to comment
+EPMinnesota Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 You know you're hooked when you say "Rain? What rain?" meanwhile the sump pump in the basement is working overtime. Quote Link to comment
+J6 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 When you wonder how much earlier you need to get up to get to that one cache before work... Quote Link to comment
Dracus Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 You spend $449 on a GPS and you still haven't looked for a single cache. Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 When it's the night before Thanksgiving and you KNOW you have to get up at 7:30 in the morning and drive for 4.5 hours but you are logging your finds at 1:15 AM. (I got 6 FTF that night. ) Quote Link to comment
+badlands Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I have no additction to geocaching. I can quit anytime I want to. In fact I've quit 10 times already Quote Link to comment
Jalynne Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 You base your family vacation on caches that you can find while getting from point A to point B! hehe, or appointments out, or lunch dates, or.... you see, i'm getting the hang of this already, and it's not even been a week since my first find yet! I really want to get a FTF, though...just have to get up early enough in the morning. Maybe this summer. Jymnjenn Quote Link to comment
+LaughingTerry Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 (edited) When you climb the side of a mountain after dark with an itty bitty flashlight. When you climb 30ft up a tree after a cache. When you strip down naked on the side of a trail and swim to an island on a lake in early April. (In Massachussets) Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. When you bushwack 3/4 of a mile across a thorn and vine entangled swamp with occasional knee deep mud trying for a shortcut back to the car. When you chase another FTF cache hound down a four wheeler trail with your Subaru trying for another FTF. When you make a 3,000 mile round trip and hit at least one cache in every state along the way. (and back) Yep, I've done all that. LOL Edited May 1, 2006 by LaughingTerry Quote Link to comment
pickpocket Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 You see potential cache containers where ever you go (Hmmm - that peanut butter jar would make a good cache container . . .) You keep your GPS in your briefcase - JUST IN CASE . . . Quote Link to comment
+Bleeder973 Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 You get up at 7:30am the first morning of your honeymoon to go caching because "It might be awhile before I get a chance to hit this area again." Yep, I had to do it! Bless my lovely wife for being so kind and understanding. She has since created her own account with the moniker "CacheWidow" and has followed the old saying, "if ya can't beat 'em, might as well join 'em!" Quote Link to comment
+dkwolf Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 It first bothers you when you make out a check to 'cache'. And then after not visiting the forums for a while, it bothers you when you write about the new cash in your area. Quote Link to comment
+Geo-Cad Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 You spend $449 on a GPS and you still haven't looked for a single cache. I just did the same thing.... Came across this a few days ago, Talked to the wife and daughter. Bam.... My Megallan eXplorist XL will be here tomorrow... Quote Link to comment
+CachingCoins Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 When you have to stop between the wedding & the reception, .......because it was on the way. Well....... almost on the way. Well....... it was in the same town!!! I can't help it that it happened to be raining! Quote Link to comment
+flgAZ Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 When you have to stop between the wedding & the reception, ....... Depends, was it YOUR wedding? Quote Link to comment
wandat24 Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 lmao and i thought i was the only one (everything sounds familure, except spending that much on a gps and hadn't been out yet... the honeymoon thing and the wedding/reception.... how ever i have a wedding i'm going to on my B-Day... wonder if the reception is in the same place or a different one.....) Quote Link to comment
+phoneman66 Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 When you show up late for work, because that cache is in the next tree Quote Link to comment
wandat24 Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 (edited) When you go to Wal-Mart (or any other place you like to buy shoes and clothes) just to get some caching clothes for your up comeing caching vacation.. OH! and don't forget a nice pair of Hiking type shoes/boots for you and the kids!!!!! **We did this today! ** edited for spelling.... hope i got it all Edited May 5, 2006 by wandat24 Quote Link to comment
Dan&Chris Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 (edited) When you read a post called "You Know You're Hooked When..." Edited May 6, 2006 by woowoo80808 Quote Link to comment
+rural_cdn Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 (edited) When everyone in a park looks suspicious. When every car parked on the side of the road looks suspicious. When you spend more time in the dollar store than the grocery store. Edited May 7, 2006 by rural_cdn Quote Link to comment
+RockyRaab Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 When everyone in a park looks suspicious. When every car parked on the side of the road looks suspicious. When you spend more time in the dollar store than the grocery store. You almost got it. It should be "When you spend more money in the dollar store than the grocery store." Quote Link to comment
Jalynne Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 When you laugh after getting divebombed by birds after crossing a muddy stream...... Quote Link to comment
+AKStafford Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 When you get up a 6am every morning (instead of the 8am you could sleep in to) looking for new caches in your area because you still haven't gotten a first to find. When you've suddenly told the boss you were leaving work to "run an errand for the company." When you've introduced most of your friends and family to the sport (should've bought stock in Garmin...) Quote Link to comment
+Txnurse97 Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 When you are watching "Lost" and think to yourself, "Imagine all the places they could hide caches in that jungle!" Quote Link to comment
+barondriver Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 LOL ..no caching on our Wedding day but... I did have 'Our Honeymoon Traveler" travelbug in my pocket during the wedding and handed it out to a local Geocacher to place when he greeted us in the reception line..and then he headed out caching and placed it that day.. Quote Link to comment
+Team Gryarvold Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Please add to the list...here's mine to start with. 1. You stay up until 1:30 am finding caches to look for when you go on your bike ride the next day, and you only started hunting three days ago. jymNjenn You get so into it you go with out getting a GPS unit and hope luck smiles on you (which it did). Then along comes mothers day and your husband asks you what you would like for a gift and you say "Why honey a nice GPS unit would be lovely" he looks at you askance and goes out an buys a very good one for you. Then you sit up until 2am trying to figure out how to use it and what programs you like best in conjunction. Then get up at the crack of dawn the next morning, call the daughter and have her bring the 3yr old grandson, load up and hit the trail. Quote Link to comment
salkids Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 The list is endless, but I figure that I was hooked when I sal up for 7.5 hours reading through all the threads, and then woke my husband up on a Saturday morning at 7:30 (he usually sleeps to 10) to read him the following thread from Geocaching Groups by Country > United Kingdom. I could relate to all of it and had only been caching for 1 week at the time. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...32401&hl=addict LMAO, he did not think it was so funny, and he did not like me going to bed at 10:30 am! Quote Link to comment
bandgeek Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 You need to do a service project for Girl Guides, and the first thing that comes to mind is CITO. You geocache on your school band trip. Possibly bending the rules to do so. You pick what university to go to based on which has the most caches nearby. (Not really... but that's how it worked out anyways) Quote Link to comment
+MeBaz Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 When you run and tell your wife "I'll be right back." and she doesnt ask where you are going. Quote Link to comment
+smilingsteeles Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 ..it's Mother's Day and there is only one thing you want and the three guys in your life (husband and 2 boys) look at you and say, "We're not coming!" Quote Link to comment
+Sand-Man Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 When you stop working on the house you are building because you want to help a TB move along..... Quote Link to comment
+What rock? Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 You keep caching for a month after spraining your ankle before finally going to a doctor and finding it was actually broken. Granted, I didn't do any difficult caches but I did manage to limp to a few. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 You are 1300 miles from home and need to get back, but on the first day, after five hours in the car, you have only traveled 48 miles . . . Quote Link to comment
+Malarky Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 ...when you march through snake infested muddy water in flip-flops, than climb a steep bank and walk in high, tick infested grass to get to an area where you could spend over an hour looking for a small hidden object in the heat of summer.....and find it! Quote Link to comment
salkids Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 When you go on a boy scout trip with your son, geocache instead of participate in their adventure, get back after they have returned from white water rafting, eat dinner and plan the night caches that you are going to do when they go to bed. Then you leave them in a storm (they are supervised by the dads, and moms aren't supposed to intermingle with them anyway) and go out again at 10pm in the pouring down rain and hit a few more because your friend has never logged a cache from NC, and afterall, you are only 30 minutes away. You then return at 2AM where they are all mad because the 1hour roundtrip drive ended up taking 4 hours. But the worst part is you really wanted to cache more!! We were scolded by the Scoutmasters wife tonight for caching on the trip over the weekend, guess we will not be doing that anymore. But what a great weekend moon-bear and I had in Georgia and North Carolina. Quote Link to comment
Scuzball Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 You know you're hooked when your ideas of getting back at your enemy change from putting bugs in their garden to putting valuable microcaches in their garden Quote Link to comment
wandat24 Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 You know you're hooked when your ideas of getting back at your enemy change from putting bugs in their garden to putting valuable microcaches in their garden hmm this one gives me an idea.... Quote Link to comment
+JuliasCacheCrew Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 You know you are hooked when more people know you by your user name than your real name. Quote Link to comment
bluecode03 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 When you pay $190 up front for a GPS,then after failing to find a cache you study the "spoliers" and go straight back to find the cache.You then come home with sunburn,sore feet and a happy face.I'm 46 and have found the missing link in my life.Thanks to all. Quote Link to comment
+Kit Fox Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 (edited) You know your hooked when you remember most topics in the forum: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...4entry2203384 You might be a geocacher if... You Might Be A Geocacher If............, share your thought. You Know You Are Addicted To Geocaching When... You Know You're a Geocacher when... Edited June 3, 2006 by Kit Fox Quote Link to comment
+Team_Talisman Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 (edited) When you have to drive 35 miles in a rural area to a walmart and try to figure how and where to hide 350 caches on the drive...(1/10 rule you know) You dream about hiding caches and wake up in the morning and cant find them so you just realized you got your first DNF Edited June 4, 2006 by Team_Talisman Quote Link to comment
+stepol Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 When you go after that FTF as the sun goes down WITHOUT a flashlight...and use the GPSr backlight and cell phone just to see to sign the logbook (with the kids in tow - bad mommy!) When you know your toe is broken and you can't wear shoes for over a month - EXCEPT for geocaching (2.5 miles and 4 caches...I can do that) When you spend your 17th and then 18th Wedding anniversaries at geocaching events - and place an anniversary cache too! - Stepol's anniversary cache When the guys at the military surplus store greet you by name (but still look at you strangely as you pick up another half dozen ammo cans) Quote Link to comment
+Boot Group Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 You know you are hooked when more people know you by your user name than your real name. Or, that you've been to enough events that people now know and recognize your screen name, and also know your real name. Well, first name at least. Quote Link to comment
CacheLord Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 When you keep suspiciously checking to see if people on cell phones or playing with their PDA's are actually caching. Quote Link to comment
+wandererrob Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 (edited) ... your girlfriend removes all the dead AA batteries in your cupholders before a long drive so she has a place to put her drink. Edited June 5, 2006 by wandererrob Quote Link to comment
+jaredl Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Ok, When you spend over $3000 dollars on gps equpment for your car, backpack, and person. when you install a computer with satalite internet in yor car. When you start thinking about opeing a geocaching store ( or get fired cause the weather got nice and you went caching to much ) When you not allowed to talk about geocaching at home anymore. When you wife finds at least 2 geocoins a week in your laundry. When you buy a new bike, and cover it in camo tape, just for caching. or when you buy a new atv just for caching Quote Link to comment
+Clothahump Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 When you read a post called "You Know You're Hooked When..." And you respond to it.... Quote Link to comment
+Skip N2EI Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 When you stare down a pair of angry geese because you have to walk past their nest to get to a cache. Quote Link to comment
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