You might be a geocacher if...

[+Banshee Reeks]

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

[peachs]

...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!

 

[peachs]

... you leave for work with your GPS and forget your cellphone.

 

[+SidAndBob]

...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...

[+SidAndBob]

...your laminator only ever gets used for stashnotes and calling cards.

[+JohnTee]

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

[+fsubartender]

....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!

[+fsubartender]

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!

[+JATurtle]

You change your job so that you can be near some new caches.

[+Dgwphotos]

.... 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)

[+mamid]

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.

[+Dgwphotos]

When you plan your spring break around Geocaching!

[+beltfamily]

...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

[+vortexecho]

:unsurelandscapers make you nerves

[+mgbmusic]

Your travel bug's been to Barbados in less time than it took you to get to Minnesota last summer.

 

--MGb

[+"we two want to play too"]

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?!?

[+bassman69]

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

[+genegene]

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

[+Too Tall John]

...you can be found wandering lost in the woods even though you have a GPS.

[+JennM]

... 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...

[mebesaturday]

you check out the geocache you place every 10 mins at work to see if anyone has found it.

[+Cyclosarin]

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.

[peachs]

You give the kids a day off school so you can leave on your weekend Geocaching trip one day earlier.

 

[+R.O.B]

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)

[+Kryten]

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.

[Double Agents]

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!

[+cave-rat]

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

[+teribear68]

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!

[+Let's Look Over Thayer]

...the first thing you do when you get to Vegas is to log in to Geocaching.com...

 

(True story... )

[+Confucius' Cat]

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

[+Nurse Nanna]

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

[+HoldenFamily4]

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!

[+Sioneva]

... 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!)

[+SeattleSun]

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!"

[+Bamboogirl]

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.....

[+lmcgisme]

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

[nater2k2]

. . . 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

[nater2k2]

. . . when filling out a meeting evaluation form you write TNLN.

[+outdoorsaddix]

....you can't afford to date because you just bought a new GPS

 

(true storey of my life)

[+Totem Clan]

.... 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.

[+Totem Clan]

.... 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.

[Guyute1210]

.... 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...

[+mamid]

... 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

[+firebird4227]

You have to look under every pile of logs or brush Just in case.

[bomb280]

...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)

[+team_super_cool]

... 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.

[+geocacheniagara]

.....you've spent an hour reading this entire thread and wished there was just one more page!

[+Stargazer22]

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.

[+bblhed]

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.

[+Cache_Rats]

...if your Medical Alert Bracelet says "In Case of Emergency, GoTo N37:34.911 W85:33.911"

now thats funny...I love that one.