You Know You're Addicted To Geocaching When...

[+st_richardson]

You see the ad for the new Ziploc "Snap 'n Seal" containers where one is inverted with liquid in it and think if it can keep liquid in that well maybe it would work as a cache to keep water out.

 

BTW... I filled one with soup and inverted it. It really did stay sealed. The real test will be as a future cache, however.

[+TinCup!]

Your wife has to add a waypoint to your GPSr just to get you to come to bed with her.

[metaliklabs]

When you go into Home Depot and see a clearance shelf and scan every object to see if it could be used for anything to do with geocaching!

[+Chazman007]

Your really addicted when you hang 6 ammo boxes from the tree in your backyard and start painting them cammo colors, but your not ready to hide them yet.

[+programmer64]

When I visit an unknow supermarket, the first place to go is the section of tupperwares to see what will be the next.

 

I have all locationless caches homepages stored in my Palm.

I thought I was the only One!!!

[+crzycrzy]

You make up excuses why you are coming home late from work, and it's not the obligatory "other woman".

[phildonnia]

You know how many steps are in one thousandth of a minute,

 

Your car's glove box has emergency flashlights, and emergency pogs.

 

You've ordered crap from Oriental Trading Co.

 

You've left office sticky notes at a cache because you went during lunch and didn't have any suitable trade items.

 

Lbh pna ernq rapelcgrq grkg anghenyyl.

[+Red Clover]

... you mother calls at 7 pm and asks you to drive 3 hrs to pick her up. *she broke down* The first thing I thought was .. PQ!.. I was disappointed when she called back and said nevermind

[+Blind Avocado]

The Boss sends you on a business trip, and the first thing you do is a PQ of the destination. I leave in two weeks.

[davwil]

Blind Avocado....

 

I HATE business trips... and I'll do anything to make them better... BTW you're boss also knows this (ahhh... maybe not the geocaching part) .. so let's just keep this a secret, K'ay?

 

Hey Red....

 

Go anyway!!

 

(edited: to add the bit about geocaching)

 

And... anyway I've been in far too many hotel rooms without anything to do.... MAAANN!, why didn't we come up with this sort of thing to do in the 70's.?!?!?!

 

Edited March 31, 2004 by davwil

[+robert]

And... anyway I've been in far too many hotel rooms without anything to do.... MAAANN!, why didn't we come up with this sort of thing to do in the 70's.?!?!?!

Free love?

[+WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

when you take a 200 mile round trip starting at 11:30 pm to help a TB win a race

[+Polgara]

You're addicted to geocaching when you're waiting for your class to start, and you have 2 hours to wait until said class starts, and you have internet access, but your GPS is 150 miles away in another state and you toy with the idea of running over to walmart and purchasing a garmin to find a few caches during the 2 hour wait period, and then RETURN the GPS like you never used it...

[+Cam, Beck, Mum & Dad]

When, despite the fact it rains every Sunday in Bergen, you sit looking sadly out the window until they all agree to come and climb a wet slippy mountain just to outdo your best mates cache count

 

Cam, Beck, Mum & Dad (Dad looked sad)

[+Golfhaus]

...you start referring to those tall brown things outside with the green stuff on them as "gerrs" without thinking twice about it.

[+Cat-in-the-hat]

- When you pick your kid up from their friends and the first thing they say is, "We are not stopping on the way home to do a cache!”

 

- When you agree to go on a business trip because it's to a place you have not cached yet.

 

- When you slow down by any wooded areas to see if they are privately owned or not.

 

- When your NEW favorite color is army green.

[+Team Flying Dachshund]

When you save over 100 ovaltene, sucrets, altoids, and film containers and cover them all with differant color duct tape to make them blend in and you fill them all with toys you bought from walmart and you dont know when or if you will live long enought to place them all.(like me)

 

When you have the local wal-mart, army surplus store, the tupperware aisle of the supermrket, and the nearby home depo locations stored in your gps

Edited April 5, 2004 by Team ClandestinePenguin

[+programmer64]

when you keep reading all the new topics for you know your addicted when...

[+JeepCachr]

You know your addicted when you go away for a night for your anniversary without the kids and pick a location that is dense with caches that you haven't done. (not me but thats where a family member of mine is tonight) He's making it really hard for me to catch up with him.

 

You know your addicted when you care about having more founds than another family member even though he's been at it for 2 years.

[MouseHead]

Okay, I'm a newbie, but I think I may be addicted...I called my wife from work in the middle of the day and told her to, "Grab the GPS and put in these coordinates that I'm about to email you!" because a cache popped up as 'New' on my search list that was about 20 miles away and I wanted her to get an FTF! Well, she was going out anyway...

[+wimseyguy]

When you make snack decisions based on the containers. I picked the mini M&M's over Reeses cups last Saturday to get the cool tube.

[+AmishHacker]

When you go into Home Depot and see a clearance shelf and scan every object to see if it could be used for anything to do with geocaching!

HAHAHA...Did that at walmart last night!!!

[+TinTN]

When you go into Home Depot and see a clearance shelf and scan every object to see if it could be used for anything to do with geocaching!

HAHAHA...Did that at walmart last night!!!

I did that at Target today. Walked out with 4 caribeaners, some hand warmers and a keychain thermometer.

[uperdooper]

When you go into Home Depot and see a clearance shelf and scan every object to see if it could be used for anything to do with geocaching!

HAHAHA...Did that at walmart last night!!!

I did that at Target today. Walked out with 4 caribeaners, some hand warmers and a keychain thermometer.

"walked out?" i hope you paid for them first.

[+Doggiewoggie]

When you find yourself uttering the words: "I'm sorry, --insert love interest's name here--, I just don't think it's going to work out between us. You just don't get geocaching

[+TinTN]

When you go into Home Depot and see a clearance shelf and scan every object to see if it could be used for anything to do with geocaching!

HAHAHA...Did that at walmart last night!!!

I did that at Target today. Walked out with 4 caribeaners, some hand warmers and a keychain thermometer.

"walked out?" i hope you paid for them first.

*giggle* .... yes, I paid for them. Not paying for them would have interfeared with my cache time as I don't think any are hidden on jail house property

[+AmishHacker]

You're addicted to geocaching when you're waiting for your class to start, and you have 2 hours to wait until said class starts, and you have internet access, but your GPS is 150 miles away in another state and you toy with the idea of running over to walmart and purchasing a garmin to find a few caches during the 2 hour wait period, and then RETURN the GPS like you never used it...

WOW....THATS BAD

[+Strapped-4-Cache]

You know you're adicted to geocaching when your three year old daughter walks around the store with a piece of paper in her hand and, while looking at it, points down the aisle at each intersection and says, "We need to go this way..."

 

Yeah, she's come along with me a few times in the woods.

 

Guess I won't have to go to Chick-Fil-A to get her a toy GPS of her own if a piece of paper works just as well.

 

S-4-C

[+eagsc7]

....You specifically 'mod' your car with the sole intention of Caching.

 

 

You can't see it, but there's a wireless keyboard with touchpad on it.

 

The Last thing I want to do is put a Touchpad screen in.

 

The Steaks

[+Headhardhat]

You Know You're Addicted To Geocaching When...

 

the decision of caching is made not on IF it's raining but how expensive your current footware was.

 

your 12 year old daughter gives the coords of her friends house instead of their address.

 

your wife insists on a "tick check" everytime you enter the house.

 

your neighbors ask for creative hints for hiding their extra keys to their houses.

 

you know the exact direction of the gold trail in your nearby park.

 

you have more personal geocoin albums than photograph albums.

 

you know the diameter of a 35mm canister.

 

-HHH

[+J-Way]

- It takes you 11 hours and 450 miles to drive to a location that's 200 miles due east (happened to me last week)

- You resurrect a 4-year-old thread about cache addictions.

Edited June 5, 2008 by J-Way

[+Unkle Fester]

Your boss wonders how you got grass stains on your pants between a 10:00 and a 1:00 meeting while working downtown

[+Gipsie]

When you sign a settlement agreement/business letter with your goecaching name.....

When every pile of sticks/rocks/hole in a tree you see, you think, "I bet there is a cache in there" or "that would be a great place for a cache"/

When you see somene pull up to an area that you know has a cache and you think, "I wonder what their geocaching name is?"

When you ask your geo-buddy (Melcrim, I am referring to you!) where is such-and-such town and they answer you by telling you what caches are nearby...

[+Dread_Pirate_Bruce]

- you use your cell phone to call your brother and his first thing he says to you is: "What? You're having trouble finding a cache and need me to look up the hint?"

 

- you use your cell phone to call your wife and his first thing she says to you is: "What? You're having trouble finding a cache and need me to look up the hint?"

 

- you use your cell phone to call your kid and his first thing he says to you is: "What? You're having trouble finding a cache and need me to look up the hint?"

 

-- You come home late, your wife asks where you’ve been, you say “with my mistress” and she says “Don’t lie to me … You’ve been out caching again.”

 

-- You encourage your kid to join the high school wrestling team, which has morning practice at 6:00 a.m. ... so you can be assured of being up and out early enough to get FTF on caches published overnight.

[+Lady Loki]

When you literally dream of caching for several nights in a row.

[+DaFunkyFrogs]

When you see someone pulled over on the side of a lonely road, and you don't wonder if their car broke down and they need help, instead you are wondering if there is a new cache there that you missed the notification for................

[4wheelin_fool]

.... you remember reading This "Addicted to Geocaching" topic and This "Addicted to Geocaching" topic when you first discovered the forums.

 

 

 

This link is much better.

[+DrgnTrappr]

When you look for other people searching for caches you have already found.

 

When you are late for work because you wanted just one more for the day.

 

When your work truck is 75 feet long 14 feet high and only 4 inches above the ground , loaded with 10 new cars and you are still trying to find a cache with parking.

[+Keruso]

 

When your work truck is 75 feet long 14 feet high and only 4 inches above the ground , loaded with 10 new cars and you are still trying to find a cache with parking.

 

wouldn't that be kinda hard to get down some very narrow roads? any of them cars got GPS's installed?

 

when you've considered having your car as a Travel Bug (which i've done, check my profile)

 

when your considering getting a personalized LP for the TB numbers.

 

when you decide to pimp out your cachemobile (would have liked to add a pic, if i knew how)

[+Team LaLonde]

. . .you visit a zoo two and a half hours away and get IN the wolf habitat so you can get pictures of someone else's geocoin with a real wolf.

 

Edited June 10, 2008 by Team LaLonde

[+mildly_manical]

-You can barely walk from the bad case of poison oak you got a week ago so you're carefully compiling a list of all the "easy's".

 

-You know all the diverse forms poison oak in the NW.

[+Flatouts]

When your sitting here reading these forums instead of going out to the store to pick up essential items your out of in the household...such a T.P. ...toothpaste...coffee...food the the dog and cats...oh yeah...food for ourselves... I better get a move it...

[+theosus]

Your daugther catches you rooting through her toys, and says "Don't make THAT a travel bug."

 

Conversely, your daughter is looking for a missing toy and says, "Dad, did you make my _____ into a travel bug?"

[+Cache-Bandits]

Your business card is a wooden nickel.

 

You are fluent in ROT-13 encryption.

 

You are willing to stick your arm into a hole in a tree up to your shoulder, despite having no idea what is inside.

 

You have bought any product and dumped the contents into the trash just to obtain the container.

 

You have considered hiring a helicopter to defeat a level 5 terrain cache.

 

Interventions have become so frequent, you leave the folding chairs set up.

 

As a grown adult, you eat happy meals just to get the McToy for trading.

 

Garmin sends you a Christmas card.

 

You would not back down from a fistfight if winning meant you were FTF.

[+The Broylers]

You geocache on the way home from the hospital with your newborn daughter.

You hope that you get camo duct tape for christmas.

[+CrippledBlindSquirrel]

You judge your health status by the difficulty level of the last Cache you found(back surgery).

 

OMG You Got Me!

[+CrippledBlindSquirrel]

Your truck spends so much time parked in some unusual places your friends in the LEO business have started calling you to ask if it has been stolen

[+Dread_Pirate_Bruce]

-- Your bag of caching supplies includes a tube tent, freeze dried food and requires the services of a sherpa.

 

-- Your family asks where you'd like to go for breakfast on Father's Day and you pick one based on its proximity to caches you'd like to find so you can take them off your DNF list.

 

-- While waiting to be seated at said restaurant, you grab one of said caches.

 

-- Your real silly contributions to this forum are all just the recitation of real events.

[+ProjectFred325]

You make up excuses why you are coming home late from work, and it's not the obligatory "other woman".

 

And she wishes it was another woman and not another dadgum cache.

[+Adium]

- when every cop in town knows who you are because they keep getting called about a suspicious character walking around in circles.