You know you're a Cachin'-Geek if....

[+jollybgood]

Let me put on my Jeff Foxworthy cap....

 

You know you're a Cachin'-Geek if....

 

-- Your company offers to fly you to a business meeting in Vegas but you ask if you can drive (so you can hunt for caches along the way).

 

-- You've ever told your spouse, "Honey, did you know it's exactly 283 feet the the mail box and back?"

 

-- You've ordered a Happy Meal just so you'll have a 'cache item' to place on your next outing.

 

-- You've spent time in the Household Aisle at Wall Mart 'testing' the lids on various food containers to determine if they are worthy of being cache containers.

 

-- You can't drive by a stand of trees without saying to yourself, "OOOOoooooo, that would be a good place for a cache."

 

-- You can't drive by a stand of trees without thinking, "I wonder if there's a cache back there?"

 

Any more to add??

 

(I'm sure someone will point out this thread already exists someplace else.

 

Jolly R. Blackburn

http://kenzerco.com

[skydiver]

quote:

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Originally posted by Jolly B Good:

 

(I'm sure someone will point out this thread already exists someplace else.

 

Jolly R. Blackburn

http://kenzerco.com

 

Anyone care if I Markwell this?

 

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"We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things."

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

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[+Geo-Johnson's]

I'm too much in the spirit to markwell now....... I'll add though.........

You know you're a Cachin'-Geek if for every car you see on the side of the highway, you think there's probably a cacher off in the woods not too far away.

 

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

[azog]

You give directions by just giving the lat/long.

 

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Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be also be like him.

[+MaxEntropy]

...Your GPS has a name.

 

Mickey

Max Entropy

More than just a name, a lifestyle.

[+georgeandmary]

...if you've been to the Costco photo desk and walked away with 200 film cannisters. (Oooooh micros.)

 

...if it's xmas eve and you just got back for geoaching.

 

george

 

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

 

[This message was edited by georgeandmary on December 24, 2002 at 05:47 PM.]

[+georgeandmary]

ooops

 

[This message was edited by georgeandmary on December 24, 2002 at 05:46 PM.]

[+Sparrowhawk]

You know you're a Cachin'-Geek if...

 

__________________________________________

 

...you think "markwell" as a verb.

 

-Elana (who thinks it's handy and wonderful to have the word "elanic" as her own personal adjective!

 

-Elana (a.k.a. "sparrowhawk" and formerly a.k.a. "falcospav" here on this site.)

[+The Leprechauns]

... if it's Christmas Eve, and you're reading and posting in the Geocaching forums!

 

Well, I've got to go to the IRC chatroom, so see ya later!

 

x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

Next time, instead of getting married, I think I'll just find a woman I don't like and buy her a house.

[+Web-ling]

If you can Markwell this thread with one that was Markwelled by Markwell.

 

If you are spending Christmas Eve reading the forums and printing cache pages.

 

If the clerk at the Army-Navy store greets you with, "Hi, Web-ling. How many ammo cans do you need this week?"

 

[shrekTBA]

A recent one- you not only know how long it takes to mow the yard, but also the distance and speed you did it at.

 

you forget that Ford also makes a Sport trac

 

if a police officer has ever taken your word for your speed when writing a ticket, after he asked "do you know how fast you were going?" and you went to the trip computer and told him. Embarrassing to explain why you were going 15.4MPH over the posted to the judge.

 

if you can name all the contents of your backpack, the coordinates of your first cache, where the closest cache is, but forget where you put your car keys or remote.

 

you wonder what GPSr Santa uses to find his way

 

you justify caching over church by saying Jesus would have cached if it were around back then.

 

you put the coordinates for the wedding on the invitations

 

when in Yellowstone, someone says look at that vista!, and you check if you dropped something.

 

It's not a sport unless there is something dead in the back of the truck when you get home.

[+Planet]

Your birth announcement was posted in the geocaching forums.

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

"To err is human, to forgive....$5.00"

[+fritz59]

Mow the grass? No grass on the beach

[+Indy Diver]

You can't go untill your PDA has charged up and you have uploaded all of your unfound cache sheets to it.

[+CYBret]

Originally posted by Planet:

Your birth announcement was posted in the geocaching forums.

 

Now you're gettin' personal!

 

How about . . first snowfall of the season . . visibility is near nothing . . van is loaded down with wife and kids on a snow covered road . . . I'm firing up the GPS to see what kind of reception I can get in these conditions.

 

btw, eTrex Venture and I was getting 11 ft. accuracy.

 

Bret

 

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.

When a man found it, he hid it again." Mt. 13:44

[targetdrone]

All of your batteries are Ni-Mh and at least 1800 mah.

You know that Santa has a laptop on his sled, because a handheld GPS won't hold enough waypoints.

Your boss sends you away from home on a business trip and you get excited and start searching for caches with travel bugs you can take with you.

 

"I can't find the longitude for the North Pole"

[pdumas]

For a Christmas present your kids give you a ammo can to put out as a new cache.

[+leatherman]

Your in the forums on Christmas day!

 

-When you here about something on the news and your disappointed that they don't post coordinates so you know about where they are referring to.

 

If you do not extend your expectations unto others, you will not be disappointed by the stupid things they do.

Mokita!

[+TeamAzona]

quote:

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Originally posted by Web-ling:

If you can http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?q=Y&a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=1320972583&p=1 this thread with one that was Markwelled by Markwell.

 

If you are spending Christmas Eve reading the forums and printing cache pages.

 

If the clerk at the Army-Navy store greets you with, "Hi, Web-ling. How many ammo cans do you need this week?"

 

http://www.ntga.nethttp://www.web-ling.com

[+jollybgood]

If you've ever muttered the words, "Why yes, officer. I CAN explain why I'm walking in circles the bushes."

 

or....

 

If youv'e ever STEPPED on a cache because you were too busy looking at your GPS to watch where you were going.

 

Jolly R. Blackburn

http://kenzerco.com

[+Ttepee]

..you breath a sigh of relief to hear that your travel bug is not spending Christmas alone in a cold dark box in the middle of the woods somewhere.

[+JoeCthulhu]

Your trying to figure out a way to incorporate Geocaching into your Hackmaster campaign.

 

You've designed GPS unit for all of you RPGs. For example:

 

Hero Games : Detect Exact Spot on Earth 13- (OAF, not under heavy leaf cover +1/4, not in steep canyons (urban or rural) +1/4) 3 pts.

[umc]

..............if you spent 4 hours or more searching for 6 caches on Christmas day by yourself. What can I say I was getting bored sitting around my mother inlaws.

 

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So far so good, somewhat new owner of a second/new Garmin GPS V 20 plus finds so far with little to no problem. We'll see what happens when there are leaves on the trees again.

[+Web-ling]

... if you can point to one of the scars caused by thorns or barbed wire, name the cache you were hunting when you got it, and what you traded while you were there.

 

[+chillas]

quote:

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Originally posted by Jolly B Good:

If you've ever muttered the words, "Why yes, officer. I CAN explain why I'm walking in circles the bushes."

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lol ... thought I was going to have to do that one today. Was in a small park that normally would have good tree cover, but due to the weather was easily visible from the road. A police car drove by and slowed down while the cop took a good long look. He eventually drove on. Must've decided it was too cold to get out of his cruiser.

 

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Memory is a prism through which yesterday's light is passed.

[+JoeCthulhu]

quote:

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Originally posted by umc:

..............if you spent 4 hours or more searching for 6 caches on Christmas day by yourself. What can I say I was getting bored sitting around my mother inlaws.

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"...mother inlaws." That's plural, as in more-than-one. You've gotta be one unlucky guy to have more than one mother in-law, and to have them all/both over on X-Mas.

 

I gotta ask...Are you a poligamist?

[+Newenglandah]

your a cache geek when you spend 3 hours in the cold winter rain to fix your stolen cache so caches can hit it the next day.

[+Genius Loci]

... and then can't find it without your GPS!

[umc]

quote:

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Originally posted by JoeCthulhu:

"...mother inlaws." That's plural, as in more-than-one. You've gotta be one unlucky guy to have more than one mother in-law, and to have them all/both over on X-Mas.

 

I gotta ask...Are you a poligamist?

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'I was at my mother in-law' does not sound right to me. What am I missing?

 

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So far so good, somewhat new owner of a second/new Garmin GPS V 20 plus finds so far with little to no problem. We'll see what happens when there are leaves on the trees again.

[+chillas]

quote:

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Originally posted by umc:

'I was at my mother in-law' does not sound right to me. What am I missing?

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I think, "mother-in-law's," the posessive, as you are implicitly referring to her place of residence.

 

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Memory is a prism through which yesterday's light is passed.

[umc]

Thanks.

 

As you can tell from any of my posts, grammer and spelling are not my thing.

 

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So far so good, somewhat new owner of a second/new Garmin GPS V 20 plus finds so far with little to no problem. We'll see what happens when there are leaves on the trees again.

[+Maverix]

You watch for abandoned tupperware in the lunchroom cupboard but only find mismatched lids and bowls.

[Lyra]

You're frustratedly attempting to assemble your daughter's Christmas present and your wife tells you, "follow the directions" and you reflexively search around for a cache page printout.

 

That happened to me. No lie!

 

Always wear proper caching safety equipment!