+peskymosquito Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 I recently was at a cache which had alot of muggle activity. While waiting for them to clear out, i opened my cell phone and started talking to myself to blend in. After they cleared out i got the cache and signed log. i started thinking of you might be a geocacher lines and wanted to see what others thought. Quote Link to comment
+terrkan78 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 You might be a geocacher if you spot lock & locks full of flour/sugar in someone's kitchen and you think to yourself, "What a terrible waste." Quote Link to comment
+3isamagic# Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 I recently was at a cache which had alot of muggle activity. While waiting for them to clear out, i opened my cell phone and started talking to myself to blend in. After they cleared out i got the cache and signed log. i started thinking of you might be a geocacher lines and wanted to see what others thought. You might be a geocacher if your injury stories (told to e.r. staff, friends, family, facebook) all end with, "and of course I found the cache" Quote Link to comment
+captnemo Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 You might be a Geocacher if "I know it's our anniversary, but I got to fill in today on my grid" Quote Link to comment
+*GeoPunx* Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 You might be a Geocacher if you're inside playing a video game and you see a spot in the game and think to yourself that it would be an awesome hide spot. ^^true story^^ Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 You might be a Geocacher if when you find out you will be going out of town for work, before going to Google Maps to get directions, you go to GC.com to scout the local cache scene. Did I mention I'm going to Hattiesburg MS next week? 😃 Quote Link to comment
+DragonsWest Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 If you are asked to travel for work and base your decisions upon what geocaching you can do along the way -- you might be an addicted geocacher. Quote Link to comment
+lamoracke Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 When you get to a place that you want to hike and find a cache, and see a no trespassing sign...and do tons of research to find out if you can go in there or not. If I was just a hiker, I would have moved on. Quote Link to comment
+Brooklyn51 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 you pull into a place you've never been before, be it a park or a parking lot, and you think to yourself "I bet there's a cache here" and on checking your phone, find out there is. or- maybe more to the point, you have a geocaching app on your phone. Quote Link to comment
+BAIN! Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 You go to Lowe's and think of everything as a possible host instead of a home improvement project. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) edit: dangit, someone already covered the food vs loc-n-loc So I'll give two more. You might be a geocacher if you're a bit confused when someone tells you "Watch out you might get your shoes muddy." You might be a geocacher when you know exactly why you are taking the hotel room pens. Edited April 12, 2013 by BlueDeuce Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 You might be a geocacher if you spend your spare time reading another "You might be a geocacher" thread in the Groundspeak forums. Sorry, I couldn't resist. You might be a geocacher if you go to sign a non-caching-related guestbook/sign-in sheet and almost write down your caching name. I've almost done that a few times. Quote Link to comment
+The_Incredibles_ Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 When you've been late for work or picking up the kids because you were....well you know... Quote Link to comment
vagabond Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) You might be a geocacher if you become state campground hosts at Caswell state park, just so you'll be close to geowoodstock VI Plus on our days off we cached from Monterey to Fresno and points in between :) Edited April 12, 2013 by vagabond Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 When you've been late for work or picking up the kids because you were....well you know... shh...don't say that too loud. Quote Link to comment
+T.D.M.22 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Well let's see. I have looked at GC maps when stopping at gas stations and lunch on roadtrips. Planned work travel to accomodate caches. Signed my geoname on non caching forms-guestbooks, at work, nametags. And have stopped on road trips and thought-I wonder if there's a cache here? Quote Link to comment
+T.D.M.22 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) I'll even add to the list. -You might be a geocacher if; you look at everything and wonder how you can make a cache. -You look for potential cache locations wherever you drive. -You buy paint and ask it if will adhere good to such and such (LnL Keyholder etc) -Before buying an object made of plastic you ask if paint will melt it. -You want to keep all those pencil stubs. -You say-don't throw that out! I can use it for a cache. -Whenever the bombsquad get called out the geocacher that works for the PD goes along as well. -The bomb squad knows how to get ahold of you. -The bomb squad/Ireland military vet thinks you are the one who is a bit out of it -You have pretended to text/and or talk on your GPSr like it's a phone...All the while forgetting about the one in your pocket -You have a orange vest/jacket with reflective silver, not for safety but to camo yourself -Someone has said to you-ugh! a geocache. -You look at known cache locations to see if you can see any cachers -If the above; you stop to see where the cache you DNF's was hidden -You have an excuse of what you are doing that's not geocaching like I'm looking for brick bugs, tree spiders etc. Best of all you make one of these lists, based on your own experiences. And have to stop before you start going on too long. I have done every single one of these. Edited April 12, 2013 by T.D.M.22 Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 - You cruise the grocery lot before parking, just in case there's a tag. Quote Link to comment
+SwineFlew Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 - You cruise the grocery lot before parking, just in case there's a tag. LOL... didnt find a tag, but I did found a geocaching sticker on a car at a grocery store parking lot this evening. LOL. I did look around to see if I see any cachers that I might know. Quote Link to comment
+SwineFlew Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 edit: dangit, someone already covered the food vs loc-n-loc So I'll give two more. You might be a geocacher if you're a bit confused when someone tells you "Watch out you might get your shoes muddy." You might be a geocacher when you know exactly why you are taking the hotel room pens. No comments, no comments... Dont forget the pad while you are at it. Quote Link to comment
+The_Incredibles_ Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 From my shameful past... Found it 03/24/2013 Just came off the ferry after a week long holiday in Quesnel with the kids. Violet proclaimed that she was starving, even though there were plenty of apples in the cachemobile. She decided that nothing other than pizza would do and she needed it NOW or she would pass out. So, naturally, being the good mother I am, I pulled over to "let the ferry traffic pass". Quite coincidentally (and completely unplanned of course ), I noticed there was a cache only meters from where I had parked. I jumped out with my GPS and heard Violet yell "I hate you" just as I closed the van door. The cache was in hand quickly and I dropped a TB I had picked in Hope. Oddly, the last entry in the logbook was "The Police". Would this be the actual police or is this someone's caching name? TFTH! Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 ... if someone has ever said to you, "This is a nice park. How did you discover it?" Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 ....you describe locations using caches. "It's that place between The Old Bridge and Trailhead Blues." You know it's terminal when you start doing this when speaking to non geocachers. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 You might be a Geocacher if when you find out you will be going out of town for work, before going to Google Maps to get directions, you go to GC.com to scout the local cache scene. Did I mention I'm going to Hattiesburg MS next week? 😃 You might be a geocacher if, after finding out you're going to be traveling for work, you book your flights that have a layover in a country or state in which you have not yet found a geocache. You might be a geocacher if, after finding out you're going out of town for work, you decide which hotel you'll stay at based on it's proximity to geocaches. Guilty on all of these...booked my upcoming trip to Ethiopia so that I have an 11 hour layover in Istanbul, Turkey. Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 ... When you try to convince one of your customers to fly you up on the corporate jet for a visit, because they're located near The Spot. (They turned me down.) ... When you try to convince your boss to send you on a field trip to that customer, because they're located near The Spot. (Boss turned me down.) Quote Link to comment
+sparklefingers Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 ... When you try to convince one of your customers to fly you up on the corporate jet for a visit, because they're located near The Spot. (They turned me down.) ... When you try to convince your boss to send you on a field trip to that customer, because they're located near The Spot. (Boss turned me down.) Then you didn't do a very good job there did you? (Jk) Quote Link to comment
+germanybert Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 You might be a Geocacher if you know what ZNTARGVP without decrypting it. Quote Link to comment
+Brooklyn51 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 you might be a geocacher when you start thinking of your non-geocacher friends (and family members) as muggles Quote Link to comment
vagabond Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 You might be a geocacher if you've been caching for over 12 years Quote Link to comment
+ras_oscar Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) You look at somebody by the side of the road talking on a cel phone and think "odd, there isn't a cache there!" You tap on the guard rails as you walk by to dislodge bees You walk past a fork in the trail and think " there used to be a cache there" then remember you've never been to this state before. Edited April 12, 2013 by ras_oscar Quote Link to comment
+Legochugglers Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 You may be a geocacher if you are typing reports and letters on your pc at work and regularly have to delete TFTC that you have inadvertently typed at the end of paragraphs.TFTC Quote Link to comment
niverson92 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 You are surfing the geocaching forums instead of paying attention in BIO 101.... :cool: You know the cardinal directions without looking at the sun/moon/stars, just based on the location of geocaches near you. Quote Link to comment
+DragonsWest Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) - You roam around the country with a 20 lb backpack, full of travel bugs, spare batteries, swag, containers, spare log strips, TotTs and some actual food and water. - You are sent to a conference and come home with 50+ finds. - Your heartrate increases in the food container section of the store. - The only colors of spraypaint in your workshop can best be described as camo for this or camo for that. - You've gone out in the rain with an umbrella, rain jacket, rain hat and boots, yet still come home wet, as wet as if you'd been swimming. - At a wedding, baby shower, housewarming, funeral or birtday party, you check to see if there's a cache nearby. - You're on a cross country road trip, see a 'Entering ______ County' sign and pull over to see if there's a film can or blinky hidden at it. - You see a TV show or movie which supposedly shows people geocaching and derisively sneer, "That's not how it goes." - You give directions like so "You know where 'Secret Trailhead Mump's Creek is? OK, you go about a mile past that, where you come to a T intersection, 'T for Two' is a micro hidden on the sign, hang a right and go down the road 'LOL Cache' will be on the left, just before you get there. Yeah, that's the one, silly hide. So it's like the third or forth driveway on the right, big restaurant, wossname, on the tip of me tongue, anyway that's the place you're looking for." Edited April 12, 2013 by DragonsWest Quote Link to comment
EyeSpieCache Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 edit: dangit, someone already covered the food vs loc-n-loc So I'll give two more. You might be a geocacher if you're a bit confused when someone tells you "Watch out you might get your shoes muddy." You might be a geocacher when you know exactly why you are taking the hotel room pens. No comments, no comments... Dont forget the pad while you are at it. New to this ... hotel pens and pads, what a fabulous idea! lol! Quote Link to comment
+DragonsWest Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 edit: dangit, someone already covered the food vs loc-n-loc So I'll give two more. You might be a geocacher if you're a bit confused when someone tells you "Watch out you might get your shoes muddy." You might be a geocacher when you know exactly why you are taking the hotel room pens. No comments, no comments... Dont forget the pad while you are at it. New to this ... hotel pens and pads, what a fabulous idea! lol! Don't put Hotel Soap, Shampoo or Lotion in caches - Towels are OK, though Quote Link to comment
+MountainWoods Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 when you go to tell your non-GC friends what happened to you recently, you find that 70% of the time you first have to explain what geocaching is, then get into the story. Quote Link to comment
+The_Incredibles_ Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 when you go to tell your non-GC friends what happened to you recently, you find that 70% of the time you first have to explain what geocaching is, then get into the story. If you were a geocacher, ALL your non-GC friends would already know what geocaching is. Quote Link to comment
+MountainWoods Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 when you go to tell your non-GC friends what happened to you recently, you find that 70% of the time you first have to explain what geocaching is, then get into the story. If you were a geocacher, ALL your non-GC friends would already know what geocaching is. Only after you tell them. Duh! Quote Link to comment
+The_Incredibles_ Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 when you go to tell your non-GC friends what happened to you recently, you find that 70% of the time you first have to explain what geocaching is, then get into the story. If you were a geocacher, ALL your non-GC friends would already know what geocaching is. Only after you tell them. Duh! If they don't already know, you're not that into it, just sayin. Quote Link to comment
+MountainWoods Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 when you go to tell your non-GC friends what happened to you recently, you find that 70% of the time you first have to explain what geocaching is, then get into the story. If you were a geocacher, ALL your non-GC friends would already know what geocaching is. Only after you tell them. Duh! If they don't already know, you're not that into it, just sayin. Guess I have a lot more friends than you do. I've only been in it about 14 months, but it is going to take years to tell all of my friends. Quote Link to comment
+SwineFlew Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 - You roam around the country with a 20 lb backpack, full of travel bugs, spare batteries, swag, containers, spare log strips, TotTs and some actual food and water. - You are sent to a conference and come home with 50+ finds. - Your heartrate increases in the food container section of the store. - The only colors of spraypaint in your workshop can best be described as camo for this or camo for that. - You've gone out in the rain with an umbrella, rain jacket, rain hat and boots, yet still come home wet, as wet as if you'd been swimming. - At a wedding, baby shower, housewarming, funeral or birtday party, you check to see if there's a cache nearby. - You're on a cross country road trip, see a 'Entering ______ County' sign and pull over to see if there's a film can or blinky hidden at it. - You see a TV show or movie which supposedly shows people geocaching and derisively sneer, "That's not how it goes." - You give directions like so "You know where 'Secret Trailhead Mump's Creek is? OK, you go about a mile past that, where you come to a T intersection, 'T for Two' is a micro hidden on the sign, hang a right and go down the road 'LOL Cache' will be on the left, just before you get there. Yeah, that's the one, silly hide. So it's like the third or forth driveway on the right, big restaurant, wossname, on the tip of me tongue, anyway that's the place you're looking for." Guilty!!! Quote Link to comment
+6NoisyHikers Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 You might be a geocacher if you take more pictures of trackables on vacation than you do of your family! Quote Link to comment
+Gumbys4eva Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 You might be a geocacher if you take more pictures of trackables on vacation than you do of your family! OMG! I went to Vegas and Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon last week. Just finished loading up my photos and 90% of them are of trackables. I think I have a problem. Quote Link to comment
+Friday 13th Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 You might be a geocacher if you hide spare change in small containers all around your house. Quote Link to comment
+msrubble Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 You might be a geocacher if you wonder whether it would be wrong to buy mayonnaise past its expiration date, just to get the jar. Quote Link to comment
+Condorito Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 When you are reading this at night when you have a Maths assignment(yr 12) to hand in on Tuesday... Ha! It even contains a similarity to this thread! A fine example of "You know you're addicted to geocaching when..." Bob Quote Link to comment
+rdtorres3 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 You might be a geocacher if you you are talking to your children and say, "I was caching the other day and ...", when your kids cut in sarcastically and say, "Oh really?" You might be a geocacher if you plan your dinner date with you wife around restaurants with caches you haven't yet found. Quote Link to comment
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