+Banshee Reeks Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 (edited) You have a car accident and when the rescue squad arrives they find you unconcious with a GPSr in one hand and a PDA in the other. You show your vacation pictures to your friends and they consist of old tree trunks, fallen trees, pictures of kitchen containers in natural settings and several pictures of your family posed like tourists in front of virtual caches holding your GPSr. Your Birthday cake is a rectangular shape and has olive drab icing. The candles are bison tubes with a flaming cache log paper sticking out of each one. You take batteries out of your digital camera to feed the GPSr. You forget a pen so try to use a sharp stick and a leaf as natural "carbon paper" to sign the log. You hide the kids presents in the woods in ammo cans and fill the christmas stocking with home made cache pages. The kids draw straws to see who gets to use the family GPSr first. You tell your kids that 2 of the 8 reindeer are named Cacher and Dasher. Edited January 30, 2007 by Banshee Reeks Quote Link to comment
peachs Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 ...you buy a backpack child carrier for the sole purpose of bringing your baby on cache hunts, that way you don't have to leave her at the babysitter. We got ours 2 weeks ago, and tried it out the very day we got it! Quote Link to comment
peachs Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 ... you leave for work with your GPS and forget your cellphone. Quote Link to comment
+SidAndBob Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 ...you have to sort through the batteries in your pocket(s) to find change for the phone.<BR><BR>------------------<BR>Remember, character is what you do when no one is watching. TTFN, logscaler ...and along with the batteries there's scrunched up listing print-outs, pen knife, TB's and more batteries, PDA, camera, phone, trades... Quote Link to comment
+SidAndBob Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 ...your laminator only ever gets used for stashnotes and calling cards. Quote Link to comment
+JohnTee Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 If you're painting a bit of sheet metal for a bathroom vent, catch site of the geocaching stencil and wonder how it's going to fit on THAT piece of sheet metal . . . JohnTee Quote Link to comment
+fsubartender Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 ....You are driving to a job interview 1 hr away and are more excited about the 15 caches in the area of the job.. True story. I am doing it now for my interview on Monday! Quote Link to comment
+fsubartender Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 You spend so much time looking for how to break the code in a cache on the internet that you are worried that the government will flag you for a spy! Quote Link to comment
+JATurtle Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 You change your job so that you can be near some new caches. Quote Link to comment
+Dgwphotos Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 .... if you're reading the geocaching forums instead of watching the Super Bowl. That's so true for me, and I am a sports photographer! (actually, I just am not a football fan) Quote Link to comment
+mamid Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 you have a late night (around midnight) argument with your spouse... and its about caching... cause there's a new puzzle cache in the area... that you just figured out... and its only a half hour away by car... and you just have to try for FTF! and finally, the spouse (husband for me) says "fine, on one condition..." and you don't argue about the condition because there's an FTF to be had. and when you come home with the FTF, you get p'o'd that the spouse in question is now asleep so you can't even have a private victory celebration. Quote Link to comment
+Dgwphotos Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 When you plan your spring break around Geocaching! Quote Link to comment
+beltfamily Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 (edited) ...you buy a backpack child carrier for the sole purpose of bringing your baby on cache hunts, that way you don't have to leave her at the babysitter. We got ours 2 weeks ago, and tried it out the very day we got it! We got ours 3 weeks ago and Jr is only 8 weeks old. We're waiting for him to hold his head up sufficiently so we can use it! Mind you... he's already getting dragged around in the front pack!!!! Edited February 11, 2007 by beltfamily Quote Link to comment
+vortexecho Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 :unsurelandscapers make you nerves Quote Link to comment
+mgbmusic Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Your travel bug's been to Barbados in less time than it took you to get to Minnesota last summer. --MGb Quote Link to comment
+"we two want to play too" Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Yes, as a matter of fact, I DO have to look into every tree stump I see. I'm a geocacher, can't you understand?!? Quote Link to comment
+bassman69 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 You convince a muggle buddy to head out with you at night, in the pouring rain, to trudge thru a mile or so of mud, into an area you have never been, just so you can get your first FTF. I think he is going to join Quote Link to comment
+genegene Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 when 3 1/2 ft. of snow don't stop you from makeing your first find in the middle of the woods with no snowshoes 1mi. from the nearest plowed rd. first finds are exciting for a newbee Quote Link to comment
+Too Tall John Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 ...you can be found wandering lost in the woods even though you have a GPS. Quote Link to comment
+JennM Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 ... you remove all the batteries from your TV remote, stereo remote, TIVO remote, and your kids' handheld video games because you're out of GPS food... Quote Link to comment
mebesaturday Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 you check out the geocache you place every 10 mins at work to see if anyone has found it. Quote Link to comment
+Cyclosarin Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 You keep checking on a specific new cache that opened today in your area while you're at work - monitoring its virginity ( ) in the hopes that you'll be the first one to get there after work. I'm so guilty of doing this right now. Quote Link to comment
peachs Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 You give the kids a day off school so you can leave on your weekend Geocaching trip one day earlier. Quote Link to comment
+R.O.B Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 You're at work and notice something in your shoe, and you pull out a thorn at least an inch long and you think nothing of it while everybody around you wonders how you didn't know something like that was there. (this happened to me on monday) Quote Link to comment
+Kryten Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 You tell your kids that 2 of the 8 reindeer are named Cacher and Dasher. But surely your children are already called Cacher and Dasher so won't that just get confusing. Quote Link to comment
Double Agents Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Duh. We all know who Santas reindeer are, just remember that part of the poem. With a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name: Now Cacher! Now Dasher! Now, Lorance and Garmin! On, Navstar! On, TomTom! On, Magellen and Glonass! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all! Quote Link to comment
+cave-rat Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 you might be a cacher... -you are known to drive hundreds of miles just to find a tubberware in a forest -you give people presents from thing you find in an ammo box -get up at crack at dawn to find something outside (but would not get up to go to work) -people ask direction to your house..."oh it is at North 42 53.888 West 085 12.677 -people ask for direction to a park..."oh it is at North 42 22.075 West 085 15.667 -if the only thing you talk about is tubberware...ammo box....a hole in tree...gps -you drive to your friend's house and make a detour because there is a nano nearby Quote Link to comment
+teribear68 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 You clamber through briars, brush and rocks and end up muddy and wet up to your knees from falling in the river all just to log a DNF...and think it was the best afternoon you've had in months! Quote Link to comment
+Let's Look Over Thayer Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 ...the first thing you do when you get to Vegas is to log in to Geocaching.com... (True story... ) Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 (edited) You pay to be a platinum member then spend all your time on the forums and never search for any caches. (There it is bumped) (sorry if somebody already said it) (add favourite smiley here) edit: for lysdexia typing Edited April 14, 2007 by Confucius' Cat Quote Link to comment
+Nurse Nanna Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 When you go on a weekend trip to Chicago with 2 of your best friends. And while they are shopping and looking in the store windows you are taking pictures of every virtual on Michigan Avenue. And posing in front of, inside of and above the Garmin store. And nearly passing out when you realize that your hotel window looks right down on it, so you sleep all night with the curtain open so you can keep an eye on it. And longingly looking at every park you pass that there is no time for, because you just know there is a cache there waiting for you..... anne Quote Link to comment
+HoldenFamily4 Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 heh heh heh...you come back from lunch an hour late, your dress shoes are caked with mud, and you the bottom 6 inches of your pants are covered in burrs....busted! Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 ... you rush out at lunch to mail off your taxes, look at the clock, realize you /might/ just have time to hide that new cache in the woods... and end up trekking a mile and a half and getting back to work late anyway. But happy. And end up complaining how long the lines were in the post office, which of course is why you are late... I did this today! (McGator, if you are reading this, shhhh! Don't tell!) Quote Link to comment
+SeattleSun Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Wow, this is an ancient thread. ... when you hear these phrases uttered by your three-year-old: "Mommy, did you sign the log?" "Is it an ammo can or a tupperware?" "That would be a good place for a cache!" "I don't like micros!" Quote Link to comment
+Bamboogirl Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 You may be a cacher if Your upcoming vacation to Maui is divided into Caching Days based on geological terrain: Lahaina, Bamboo forest, snorkel caches and lava beds You have two lists of caches for each area. Each day we will pick a list and those are the caches to find. Son #2 shows up Sunday morning with a brand new shiny Garmin after calling Son #1 and telling him not to plan anything because they were teaming up to teach the "Old People" how to find caches. This of course after my husband suggested that Son #2 couldn't find his butt in the woods with a map a flashlight AND a GPS. So much for hanging around the pool sipping pina coladas..... Quote Link to comment
+lmcgisme Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 heh heh heh...you come back from lunch an hour late, your dress shoes are caked with mud, and you the bottom 6 inches of your pants are covered in burrs....busted! ... dripping wet from being caught in a storm, only to find that your boss has scheduled a meeting for you that same afternoon with one on the vice presidents of the organization. I bet I made a good impression _that_ day. And I didn't even get the FTF Quote Link to comment
nater2k2 Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 . . . You can pick an easter egg hunt clean in 45 seconds. . . . In your mind you picture easter eggs as dozens of brightly colored micro caches. . . . you've ever actually looked for a micro cache. . . . your work notepad can only be translated by a cartographer. lol Quote Link to comment
nater2k2 Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 . . . when filling out a meeting evaluation form you write TNLN. Quote Link to comment
+outdoorsaddix Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 ....you can't afford to date because you just bought a new GPS (true storey of my life) Quote Link to comment
+Totem Clan Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 .... someone hands you a time card and tells you to report how much time you spend on geocaching activities so they can report it to the state. That reminds I have to get my new park staff pass for the geomobile. Quote Link to comment
+Totem Clan Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 .... your kids clean up at the local Easter egg hunt and then later complain that the Easter Bunny needs to learn to hide them better. Quote Link to comment
Guyute1210 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 .... someone hands you a time card and tells you to report how much time you spend on geocaching activities so they can report it to the state. What's funny is that my fiance just said the same thing friday... Quote Link to comment
+mamid Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 (edited) ... you can't wait till your doc gives you the postpartum okay to do things again because you don't need no stinking backpack carrier, you have your sling for the babe! Hey, walking soothes a cranky baby. ... you shatter your toe and cuss out the doctor because he won't put you in a cast ... you ransack second hand stores and liquidation stores for unique cache treasures (ty beanies with tags still on? score!) and other swag ... you beg friends to come with you because although you can now walk without wincing, you can no longer go diving into bushes or scrambling up and down side hills just to get a cache ... you've infected said friends with the cache bug ... you have no less than 3 caches waiting to be placed - including their own webpages! ... both your spouse and roommate who are looking for a new place for the lot of you to move to decide that they want to jump for a specific place because of the location and that it would be a good place to place a cache ala Big Boy. Edited May 7, 2007 by mamid Quote Link to comment
+firebird4227 Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 You have to look under every pile of logs or brush Just in case. Quote Link to comment
bomb280 Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 ...you fight your kids over the toy in the cereal box, so you can have something to trade at the next cache. (yes, some cachers still trade) Quote Link to comment
+team_super_cool Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 ... your boyfriend wants to take a stroll in the local park, and as he wraps his arms around your waist he feels: your GPSr, PocetPC, pen, signature sticker, and trading items jumbled in your pockets, and responds with little more than a grunt. oops. Quote Link to comment
+geocacheniagara Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 .....you've spent an hour reading this entire thread and wished there was just one more page! Quote Link to comment
+Stargazer22 Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 You can't use your GPS to navigate because there are too many geocache icons on the screen and you can't see the maps any more. Quote Link to comment
+bblhed Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 You know you are a pre in car navigation system cacher when you can pull up to an intersection and look at a road way and know if it will take you "far enough" just by the pavement wear and the way the lines are painted on it. Quote Link to comment
+Cache_Rats Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 ...if your Medical Alert Bracelet says "In Case of Emergency, GoTo N37:34.911 W85:33.911" now thats funny...I love that one. Quote Link to comment
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