+AtlantaGal Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 (edited) So I pick up a travel bug in a cache on my way back home from MWGB. There's no info sheet with it. When I get home, I realize it had a goal to get to a certain Indiana cache. So when logging the TB, I mention that and ask what the owner would like me to do (since I could get it back to IN quickly through friends). I get an email from who I assumed at the time was the TB owner asking me to hang onto it because he'll be in my state Labor Day weekend and can get it in person. Meanwhile, I am dipping it in/out of events for people to discover, but hanging onto it. As I am logging the TB back into my inventory after an event, I realize that the cacher name that contacted me and the cacher who owns the TB are two different people. So, in trying to be considerate, I email the actual owner and let them know that so-and-so contacted me and wanted me to hold this TB for personal pickup next month. And I ask if that's ok with the owner. The owner replies that this is fine. At the same time, he/she apparantly forwards my email to the cacher who had asked me to hold this TB. So this morning I get a nastygram from the non-TB owner cacher saying I ruined his fun he was planning with his good friend and why didn't I ask him if he was the TB owner or not. Um, excuse me, but I can see that he wasn't the TB owner and how the heck should I know that these two cachers are good buddies? Cripes, sometimes I wonder why I even bother to TRY to do the right thing. Edited August 6, 2007 by AtlantaGal Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 No good deed goes unpunished. Quote Link to comment
+cgmoyer Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 The little red guy on my shoulder with the pitchfork says place it in a 5/5 cache Quote Link to comment
+deafnut Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 u did right thing non tb onwer new take chill pill Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Hmmm, you should have known better AG, perhaps I should give you a time out for not being able to read minds like the rest of us. Consider yourself warned in the future! The non TB owner should have let you know he wanted to surprise his friend. So ruining the fun was their fault, not yours. Give yourself a day off with a nice long multicache, and relax. Quote Link to comment
+Deliveryguy428 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I got a great location for him to pick up the TB... Psycho Urban Cache #9 - Hot Glowing Tribulations !!!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Rockin Roddy Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 If the guy is still coming to grab the TB, I'd drop it in a nice 5/5 for him! Don't sweat it AG...since the guy didn't inform you of his intentions, you are not at fault and need not let this bother you! I applaud you for doing the right thing and contacting the real owner! Quote Link to comment
Keith Arnold Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 People being polite in this day and age seems to be dissappearing. You did the right thing, the buddy was being a dork by sending the nasty gram. Keep trying to do the right thing, trust me it IS worth it. Quote Link to comment
+dark_onyx1982 Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 No good deed goes unpunished. I hear that same voice. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 (edited) Edited August 9, 2007 by BlueDeuce Quote Link to comment
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