+the_bell_dingers Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 What makes us different from the rest of the world? Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 We geocache, they don't. Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 We geocache, they don't. Oh well, can't top that one! Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I used to look around at events at all the electronics (PDAs GPS units etc) and think we must look pretty geeky to outside observers. Then one day I attended a meeting held at a corporate office and saw a lot of folks with 2 or even 3 cells phone on thier belts plus a PDA plus a laptop and balancing other gadgets on all of the above. The difference is that we actually know how to use them. Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Good grief. We've been bell dingered again. Link to comment
glorkar Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Giant IQs and Egos to match. Link to comment
+Minimike2 Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 We always know where we are within 20 feet, we are never lost. Although we are often misplaced quite a bit. Link to comment
+geodarts Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 (edited) We know a secret. We have something else to do. We have gadgets. We have the evolution of a technologically-based affluent post-industrial consumer society on our side, at least for the moment. Of course my wife would also say that I am obsessed and that knowing there is a micro in a lamp post is not much of a secret, but it makes me "different." Edited October 21, 2009 by Erickson Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I used to look around at events at all the electronics (PDAs GPS units etc) and think we must look pretty geeky to outside observers. Then one day I attended a meeting held at a corporate office and saw a lot of folks with 2 or even 3 cells phone on thier belts plus a PDA plus a laptop and balancing other gadgets on all of the above. The difference is that we actually know how to use them. Every time I start to think like that someone shows me some simple trick that make me realize I don't know squat about all these gadgets. Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 What makes us different from the rest of the world? I can't speak for anyone else by my coordinates do that. Link to comment
+GeoGeeBee Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I met a girl once. She was really sweet, and kind of cute. I asked her what she did; she didn't have a job, because she was on disability -- although there didn't appear to be anything wrong with her. She didn't have any hobbies, either. When I asked what she did all day, she said she watched TV, or chatted with friends on Yahoo, or talked to her sister on the phone. She never read books or newspapers or magazines. That was pretty much the end of our relationship. There just wasn't anything we could talk about. But I meet a lot of people like her, blissfully ignorant folk with an astounding lack of curiosity about the world around them. I'm not saying that all non-geocachers are like that. But all people who are like that are non-geocachers. Link to comment
+jenkamus Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I get super excited to see lamp posts and electrical boxes! We have a new reason to go out exploring the urban area around us, new cities, hiking trails etc in search of new geocaches, before my daughter would complain about hiking trips, now she's excited because it means more smilies. It's a "sport" that I can share with my family who live in another city. Link to comment
+bittsen Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 What makes us different from the rest of the world? We managed to take satellites that we, unwillingly, paid for and made a game out of it. The rest paid for the satellites and, well, they just sit there watching their money getting spent for a bunch of geeks to go out and play. AND.... we know all the best places to hide a body Link to comment
+smstext Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 we use multimillion pound satellites to find cheap plastic tupperware. or we walk around a garden centre looking under rocks and wood in case their is a cache there. Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 What makes us different from the rest of the world? Well, I rule it... Link to comment
+Crafty Turtle Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 We notice things. Anomalies. Nooks. Crannies. We have finely honed powers of observation from constantly looking for where things are hidden, or where we can hide them. Link to comment
+Knight2000 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 The difference is that we actually know how to use them. How many times does a premium member with a decent gps come on the forums and ask if there is a better way to put those coordinates in their unit faster than manually one at a time? Link to comment
+webscouter. Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 If you are a non geocacher it is 247 miles from Kansas City to St Louis and takes 3 hours and 42 minutes. If you are a cacher it is 557 miles and takes 11 hours. Link to comment
Motorcycle_Mama Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I'd move this to Off-Topic, but since the OP isn't a Premium Member, I'm going to just close it. Link to comment
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