+vegaschick Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 (edited) So what are some of Signal's Laws that you've figured out? I know there are more, but here are a couple. Please help me compile the list: "A cache you own will only need maintenance at the most inopportune time, such as when you're out of town or sick." "Caches that are published in the evening will only be published on the evenings you decide to go to bed early." Edited October 4, 2009 by vegaschick Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 The water hazard is always one inch deeper than the boots you are wearing are tall. Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 When you DNF a cache and say in your log that it HAS to be missing, there will be a "found it" logged the next day saying "this was a fun and easy hunt for our very first cache." Quote Link to comment
+Vater_Araignee Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 When you can't possibly lose the signal, you do. If you chase a cache only because of a tb/coin, you wont be logging that tb/coin. Quote Link to comment
+Shop99er Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Whe you finally get a chance to go after a cache you have been itching to do, it will be missing the day you get there. Quote Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 A new cache will be published just minutes after getting home from caching all day in an area that is miles away. Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Flipping a mental coin to determine which side of a creek to begin your search on will always result in you being on the wrong side. The day you leave your camera behind, is the day you see the most wildlife. Quote Link to comment
+Curioddity Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Your TOTT will be 6-inches too short. Quote Link to comment
+DanOCan Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Often when caching the shortest distance between two points is NOT a straight line. Quote Link to comment
poker88 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Whe you finally get a chance to go after a cache you have been itching to do, it will be missing the day you get there. Or the area will be swarmed with muggles. Quote Link to comment
+DENelson83 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 The cache is always in the last place you look. Which is true with everything else. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Batteries will run out at the most inconvenient moment. Any backups will have self discharged. Quote Link to comment
+Curioddity Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 When you're looking for a big cache it will be small, and when you're looking for a small cache it will be big; and because you're looking with a false idea of what you're looking for, it won't even register when you look right at it. Quote Link to comment
+Curioddity Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 You'll never drive less than 5 miles before you remember that you left your GPSr connected to your desktop computer at home. Quote Link to comment
+Pat in Louisiana Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 You must drive at least 20 miles before you find that your pocket query didn't actually copy to your GPSR. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 When you bushwack your way through thorns to the cache because you are sure there is no trail, you will find the trail right next to the cache when you get there. Quote Link to comment
+Vater_Araignee Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 When you bushwack your way through thorns to the cache because you are sure there is no trail, you will find the trail right next to the cache when you get there. OR the easiest path to a cache is the one you take leaving it. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 The day you leave your pen in the car is the day you find that all the ink from the pen in the cache is pooled in the bottom of the container. Quote Link to comment
+EscapeFromFlatland Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 When you decide to use on-road directions on your GPSr it will bring you to the base of a 200ft cliff and tell you the cache is 30ft away. Quote Link to comment
+DENelson83 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Only at the exact moment you find a nano-cache do you realize you don't have the tools required to properly extract or replace the log. Quote Link to comment
+Ralfcoder Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 All the new caches that pop up in your area will be hidden under light pole covers. Coordinates entered by hand will have digits transposed - and not the very last 2, so you'll be hundreds or thousands of feet away. The hint will be useless. (I had one today that read, "Too easy to need a hint", or some such) The TB you've been searching for for 9 months will have been taken 30 minutes earlier. Quote Link to comment
+TomToad Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 The more obvious the spot in which the cache is hidden, the more time you'll spend searching everywhere else. Quote Link to comment
+Okiebryan Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Spider webs are always constructed at face height. Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Spider webs are always constructed at face height. Yeah, but it keeps you on your toes! Quote Link to comment
grumpychevelle Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The day you decide to go paperless, you have to print something up for work the next day and your cartridges are out of ink When you think that there are going to be muggles everywhere when going after a particular cache in a public place, theres not a soul around. When you think your absolutely positively alone in the woods in the most obscure part of the wilderness, you look over and someones walking by. Quote Link to comment
+Arrow42 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The day you decide "well, I'll wear shorts this time..." will be the day with 11 thousand burrs in your socks... *grumbles* Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 "The larger and more well-organized your event, the more likely someone will complain bitterly about their experience." Sorry, had to. Quote Link to comment
+vegaschick Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 "The larger and more well-organized your event, the more likely someone will complain bitterly about their experience." Sorry, had to. AMEN!!! Quote Link to comment
gonegeofishing Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Spider webs are always constructed at face height. Yeah, but it keeps you on your toes! Signal's Law You get "Point Man" duty when the spider webs are thick. Quote Link to comment
+JJTally Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Red lights and slow moving grannies are required for an FTF run. Quote Link to comment
+captnemo Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 You leave work eary to beat your coworker and get a FTF, only to find your coworker called in sick and beat you to the cache by 20 min. Quote Link to comment
+Shop99er Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 When you bushwack your way through thorns to the cache because you are sure there is no trail, you will find the trail right next to the cache when you get there. This could be the Shop99er Law. I've been caching in this manner since the second week. Quote Link to comment
+genegene Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 You'll never drive less than 5 miles before you remember that you left your GPSr connected to your desktop computer at home. You'll never drive less than 5 miles before you remember that you left your Flashlight next to your computer at home when your on your way to a midnight cache listing. "The larger and more well-organized your event, the more likely someone will complain bitterly about their experience." Sorry, had to. You to huh? Quote Link to comment
+DENelson83 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Spider webs are always constructed at face height. Yep, that's why webwhacking is so prevalent. Quote Link to comment
+coman123 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The cache is always in the last place you look. Which is true with everything else. Of course it is in the last place you look, once you find it, you stop looking LOL Quote Link to comment
+Crafty Turtle Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The cache less than 1/2 a mile from your home is still a DNF. Quote Link to comment
+jmd65 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Your TOTT will be 6-inches too short. I have no idea what that means. What's a TOTT? Quote Link to comment
+patned Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The word 'easy' in a description usually means the opposite. Quote Link to comment
+GeoGeeBee Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Your TOTT will be 6-inches too short. I have no idea what that means. What's a TOTT? TOTT – “Tool Of The Trade”. This generally indicates that some type of tool or instrument may be required to retrieve or gain access to a cache. The nature of the tool is usually not specified, but there may be hints within the cache page. It could be an actual tool, such as a screwdriver, or something as simple as a long stick to retrieve a cache from a high perch. (Definition from http://geolex.locusprime.net/) Quote Link to comment
+DeadHead82 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 When the skies finally clear up after almost a week of rain and cold, and you decide it's time for a caching trip, the pocket query generator will be acting up! Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The more money you spend on an electronic device, the greater the odds are that you'll break it geocaching. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The more money you spend on an electronic device, the greater the odds are that you'll break it geocaching. I'll amend this to say "any device" and "break or lose it". The sad thing about this thread is that most of it seems to apply to me... Quote Link to comment
+Castle Mischief Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Only after you remove the immaculate screen protector will you gouge out a nice scratch across your screen. Only after you disable track logging (because you've never used it) will you suddenly find yourself unable to locate the trail back to the car. Quote Link to comment
+TeamVasquez Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Getting everything ready the night before the day you want to go out hunting caches on your day off. Downloading about a dozen or so GC's in a park that is running rampid with them. Driving the 40 plus miles to said park the next day only to find that you didnt download the dozen or so GC's like you thought and only had 2 or 3 that you actually have coords for because you didnt double check yourself...geez Quote Link to comment
+bittsen Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Signals law. When you really need a hint for a cache, the hint will always be "too easy for a hint". Quote Link to comment
+jcar Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 The cache is always in the last place you look. Which is true with everything else. The cache was in the first place you looked, you just didn't look close enough. Quote Link to comment
+Curioddity Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 "No way!" will always be "Way!" Quote Link to comment
+DENelson83 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 (edited) When you bushwack your way through thorns to the cache because you are sure there is no trail, you will find the trail right next to the cache when you get there. OR the easiest path to a cache is the one you take leaving it. Boy, you got that right. I experienced just that kind of situation on one of my four finds today. A corollary to that is, "the first approach vector you take to the cache is always the hardest possible approach." Here's another: When you come to a fork in the trail, the first path you decide to take is always the wrong path. Edited October 6, 2009 by DENelson83 Quote Link to comment
+TeamVasquez Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Looking for a cache that you think is on a cliff edge and being up on the top side. Believing that GZ has to be down at the base of the cliff and painfully making your way to the base around and through every kind of obstacle imaginable. Getting down there and realizing that GZ was actually back up on the top side where you started....and finding the GC right when you finally manage to get back up the re. Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Signal's 7th law of Geocaching: A waterproof device... isn't. Signal's 12th law of Geocaching: There's an inverse relationship between the D/T rating and the number of injuries you'll receive getting the log signed. Quote Link to comment
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