You are a cacher when...

[+Okiebryan]

This might tell you that you have a problem with Geocaching.....

 

GCZ54X Do Not Find This Cache

 

Answer these questions:

Have you missed classes or work because of geocaching?

Do you have trouble refusing geocaching?

Do you need geocaching in order to have fun at a party?

Do you use geocaching to build up your self-confidence?

Do you use geocaching to help you relax?

Have you tried to give up geocaching and failed?

Do you crave geocaching as soon as you wake up?

Do you get into trouble because of geocaching?

Do you crave geocaching at a definite time daily?

Do you lie to others about how often you partake in geocaching?

Have you gotten into financial difficulties because of geocaching?

Do you often wish people would just mind their own business about you and geocaching?

[+Mountain_Man_Mike]

You have been stopped by security and have been mistaken for a homeless person and were told "you cannot sleep or stay here"

 

Dude, I don't know where you've been caching but that's not right!

 

It was an urban cache in Las Vegas. I usually go caching in my usual jeans and a sweatshirt (and winter beanie for the head) guess all the bushwacking is taking a toll on the old threads.

 

I have routed around some urban back lots and have felt what the security guy was thinking.

 

[+uminski]

you know you are a cacher when?........

Its costs you $30 per year?

 

 

oh.......s***

did I write that?

[+weathernowcast]

You've spoken into your GPS like it is a cell phone while doing an urban micro

 

You've resisted the urge to speak into your GPS like it is a cell phone while doing an urban micro because you are more concerned with a clear signal rather than blending. So you then talk on your real cellphone in one hand, holding your GPS out ahead of you with the other, and then wish you had a third arm to reach under benches, behind sign posts, etc.

 

been there, done that!

 

You scale a fence in a closed section of a park in front of securoty cameras in China just to "clear a province" of geocaches.

 

been there, done that!

[+POCrow222]

when you stop shooting with a digital camera and you go back to shooting with 35mm film just so you can keep the film canisters for future micros.

[+frelancr]

the pain...the glorious painnnnnnn!

[+Phil&Phil2008]

"You name your daughter Garmin "

 

_____________________________

 

Hahha! Funny!

 

You've figured out how to run your car off of Geocoins

[+Marcas_Found]

You rationalize with your wife (who is geo-addicted as well) that if we buy a jeep we can get to more of those state forest caches faster......and she agrees with you!

[+Natureboy44]

- you ALWAYS are in some stage of making/planning a cache

- you have a list of potential cache idea on your computer

- you have purchased PCV tubing, paint, wood, misc. hardware, magnets, a tap/die set, special drill bits, hot melt, etc, etc, etc, etc...... just to make caches

- your wife has said on multiple occasions "you should spend that much time on something for me"

- one of the considerations for ALL of you vacations plans involves research re nearby caches and you test run the pocket queries to ensure they run properly at least a week ahead of time

- vacation locations in states or countries where you have not previous found a cache are always at the top of the list

- new ideas for caches are sometimes created in your dreams

- you own a Palm that is totally dedicated to paperless caching

- you don't mind when people think you are "evil" and tell you they have cursed your name on more than one occasion while looking for one of your caches

- the website that has the best price for lock-n-lock containers is one of you "favorites"

Edited March 2, 2008 by Natureboy44

[+geosliders]

....your sister plans her wedding on the same day of an event you want to attend and you actually ask her if she can move the wedding and don't undertsnad why she doesn't see your point!

[+terrim]

• You go out and buy a new purse because you can no longer leave the house without lugging GPS, PDA, digital camera plus extra batteries.
  
• Your accidentally smashed GPS has a place of honor in the house, with RIP written above it
  

[+Marcas_Found]

You turn what should have been a 4 hr trip into 11 hrs through 5 states, in the rain just to do a "little" geocaching on the way back home.

[+avroair]

You sign your credit card receipts as your geocaching nick.

[+trowel32]

...you get a notification that a new cache was published, and you know without looking who hid it, just by the distance and direction from you home coordinates

[+DueEast]

...you get a dog or have a baby just so you can look less suspicious.

Edited March 13, 2008 by DueEast

[+trowel32]

...you are writing up field notes at a job site, and you catch yourself just before writing "thanks for the cache" at the bottom of the page

Edited March 13, 2008 by trowel32

[+avroair]

...you are writing up field notes at a job site, and you catch yourself just before writing "thanks for the cache" at the bottom of the page

 

Sure you caught yourself

[+weathernowcast]

you buy a button making machine just to give away 20 buttons at a geocaching event.

[+tenacityj]

...you take every chance you can to talk to your students about geocaching, but only certain ones because you don't want any of them muggling your cache.

[+Packanack]

you buy a button making machine just to give away 20 buttons at a geocaching event.

 

So was it new or used ?

 

when you know what a > 10 hide to find ratio is .....

[nj95k]

...you have a bumper sticker like this one

Edited March 17, 2008 by nj95k

[+MountainRacer]

...your cell phone contacts list has people listed by their caching handle.

[+trowel32]

You are carrying a acorns and/or sweet gum balls around in you pocket for later use as cache camo

[+P'ville Lions R Us]

You have a 2' travelbug sticker on your tailgate with the TB number listed below it. Then you go to all the events and park your truck backwards so everyone can get the TB number and log it. ADDICTED? I don't think so!

[+Gipsie]

I started this thread back in August on the South Jersey Geocaching Forums and I would love to share what they had to say. I will post this on the other thread here on Big Green too....

 

-you have a bag o' swag in your car, .....just in case

-you get up very early on your day off and hit the road.

-You can't walk past a pile of sticks or branches or a fallen tree without thinking hmmmmm.....

-you plan your vacations around it.

-When people at the Pic know what you do!

-when you check GC.com more than you check your email.

-Your entire wardrobe has sticker pull threads everywhere

-you have chigger scars up to your knees!

-you have no containers in your house

-when you need to go someplace to do something other than geocaching you find it by locating the nearest cache

-when you start giving directions by referencing the caches along the way.

-When you're a grown adult and you use words like Hidey hole!

-You turn on your GPS just to go down the street, just in case there's a cache along the way.

-You use your GPS to find a traffic-free drive.

-Auto-routing is your best friend.

-You wonder if there's a cache in a park you are driving by.

-You constantly think, "That's a great hiding spot."

-When you go to walmart, and instead of looking at clothes and other necessities, you head for the rubbermaid section

instead.

-When you keep hip-waders, head lamps, camo tape and a change of shoes and cloths in your 4x4...with a tow strap!

-You show up at a BBQ wearing a "how to identify a geocacher" T-shirt

-You know where all the Weird NJ locations are within a 25-mile radius of home

-You have to move the cache sheets, containers, swag bags, boots, etc. to make room for a passenger in your truck

-When planning a trip, the first thing you do is check for caches along the way

-You know that "classic hide" has nothing to do with leather

-You always have spare batteries in your vehicle

-When someone talks about searching for cash in the Northwest, D. B. Cooper doesn't come to mind

-when all your sentences start with... "one time, while geocaching"

-when you buy 70, yes 70, happy meal toys... because they make good trade items.

-When your friends names are Hens, Chickens, Dragons and Gipsies

-when you purchase a 4x4 to improve your cache-count

-when you start customizing your own jeep on the web according to cache locations.

-when you are very upset you can't find a snorkel kit for your 4x4 but you try to cross the lake/puddle in front of you anyway.

-when you have the Forrest Ranger's station on you cell phone's speed dial.

-when your husband buys you a camo back pack for your 4th wedding anniversary... and you are actually excited about it!

-if you've ever excused yourself from dinner because you feel a tick walking up your back

-if you schedule a yearly lymes titers test with your doctor, just in case

-when you break for lunch at McDonalds and you track mud in with you...

-And how about breaking at Mickie D's in the first place??? Always need a place with a bathroom

-When every shirt you own has these mysterious little holes in them... and then you remember that it's from all the briars!

-when you find yourself doing 4 caches between a wedding service and the reception...

-you surf yardsales for swag

-when you hit two caches on your way to a memorial service cause you where passing close by and they were there

-You're late for Christmas dinner because you had to stop and grab that nearby cache on the way, in the snow and freezing rain. And then grab one more at midnight on the way home

 

Great answers compiled from a great group of people....I am going to take the ones here and post them there too!

[jmacinta]

"You tried to pay for a soda at the KwikMart with a geocoin

Sounds like we need another Geocacher Anonymous meeting!"

 

Soooo don't you get those nifty little "Cacher's Anonymous" coins if you join up...? Secondly... can you use those coins AS a geocoin ?

[+fairyhoney]

. . . when you're invited on a trip to your cousins house and you wonder how many caches you dare to fit in along the way

[+alanfreed]

You hear the term "bushwhacking" and don't even for a split second think that this could be a funny sexual innuendo.

[+Planet]

...When you buy a whole bolt of camouflage burlap to cover cache containers, only to find out the mice and squirrels steal it for their nests.

 

...You can't make your gas mileage any better by cleaning out the junk in the trunk, because you never know when you might need those things.

 

...When you leave home Friday night and don't come home until Sunday and your significant other doesn't wonder where you were.

Edited May 20, 2008 by Planet

[+captainmath]

... you know the meaning of words like "zntargvp" or "anab".

Edited May 20, 2008 by captainmath

[+edscott]

When every suggestion the wife makes for a summer vacation spot is evaluated by the local cache quality and route to get there is selected by the number if interesting caches along the way.

[+Hooshkabob Kim]

... when you're driving in your car while on the phone with your significant other and you describe where you are by the closest cache.

 

... You know they're a cacher when they don't skip a beat and know exactly where you're at!

[+m_and_w]

You fly to Seattle for GW6 and then go and spend a perfectly wonderful day climbing a freaking mountain for 1 cache (Ape) and then spending the next three hours climbing down that mountain in the SNOW (7-10 feet) only to find out that you didn't log the dadgum geocoin in the cache!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and still happy you did it!

[+fullhseluvr1982]

....you find yourself looking FOWARD to trips to family's houses hitting caches along the way

 

Okay. So I planned the trip to visit my sister in Maine, picking up caches and benchmarks in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Something wrong with that? Vermont on this year's trip!

 

There's nothing wrong with hitting caches, I was just trying to be funny, like what Mark said about the in-law visits.....