You Know You Are An Obsessed Geo-cacher If....

[+Sulis]

1. You can successfully squeeze in a cache or two on your lunch break

2. Your kids can tell others what the co-ordinates to the house but have no idea as to the actual address

3. You purchase your new car based on its potential caching abilities

4. You wouldn't dream of going on a vacation without first checking the local TB hotel to see if you can help any on their way.

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

1.Wake up each morning to see if any new caches are in your area.

2.Thinking about that New Caching Vehicle, Ford Explorer,they are offering a free GPS with Purchase.

3.Preparing weeks in advance for the next event.

[+Genius Loci]

You tell St. Peter: "No, Thanks. There's more caches to be found in Hell."

[+Team Flashncache]

Genius Loci Posted on Mar 3 2004, 09:34 AM

  You tell St. Peter: "No, Thanks. There's more caches to be found in Hell." 

 

Ooooh, I don't know that I'd go THAT far...

After all, you could always plant caches in heaven.

That's where the TREASURE is!

Edited March 3, 2004 by Team Flashncache

[+The Weasel]

You write your Congressman or Govenor asking then to change your state motto either "You are the search engine" or "You can have my GPS when you pry it from my cold dead fingers" (This might work in South Carolina)

[+flask]

all your vacation plans involve the words "cache dense area".

[+RockyRiver]

You ask your spouse to bury you with your favorite GPS'r, if you die.

 

You ask the care taker at the cemetary when you make your final arrangements

not to bother the external antenna glued to your tombstone and the wire ran down beside it to your coffin.

 

You ask the groundskeeper at the cemetary not to move your flower vase, because there is a cache hidden inside of it.

 

You get your wife to set up your grave as a mystery cache after your dead.

[+ChrisCindy]

Before you die you try and get your grave set as a vert.

[WH]

Getting cremated, having your ashes divided into 20 little vials and sendind them out as TB's

[+KaiserKlan]

You spend an inordinate amount of time dreaming up new ways to tell your friends what geocaching is.

[+Shawn&Holly]

Your tombstone has your final co-ordinates on it and a secret compartment with a log book, pencil and a few trade items.

[+JMBella]

Getting cremated, having your ashes divided into 20 little vials and sendind them out as TB's

Uh... like this?

[+Prairie Dog]

OMG! Those are really good.

I keep a small day pack in the car with all my geo goodies. It has GPS, compass, flashlight, leatherman, cache page print-outs, trash bags, pens, small notebook, extra batteries, carabiners, and small trade items. This way I'm always ready to go find one. I'm such a dork!

[+wimseyguy]

Your next trip is planned for Nashville and you don't even like country music!

True Story.

[+Tprints]

Your next trip is planned for Nashville and you don't even like country music!

True Story.

I just had to laugh because three of us here in Erie, Pa, just did this! We found 301 caches and non-cachers we tell about the trip now think we're nuts!

 

...'course maybe they always thought we were nuts.

[+bob393]

Crap I do all of these thing.

Dosen't everyone keep a set of maps, a day pack, and GPS in the car.

AND check for new caches before you leave work to see if you need to make a detour on the way home!

[+Geofool]

You Know You Are An Obsessed Geo-cacher If....,

 

You spend a whole day geocaching with Greenback.

[+Scout Master]

You can change the batteries in your GPS without stopping on your hike to the Cache.

You cache day or night

You check for new caches in your area 3-4 times a day

You check the forums 3-4 times per day

You have a shelf or cabinet set aside just for cool things you have found in caches

You have run out of signature items several times

When you buy a new toy for your child they have to trade with you for it

You know who Dave Elmer is

One of your major goals in life is to visit cache #1

[dutchmaster]

You get really good at estimating the value of junk and can trade items to within pennies of their value.

 

You can perfectly reseal tupperware and ziplock in a flash.

 

You can look at GPSr information and mentally project yourself to that point in space and long for the day when you can do it physically.

Edited March 6, 2004 by dutchmaster

[+CO Admin]

You land in the hospital for 3 days and make the nurse move your bed closer to the window so you can get a lock.

 

You have your son bring your modem for the ipaq to your room so you can approve caches from the bed while you are there.

 

You keep looking at all the really tiny bottles the "Nitro" comes in and think that they would make a really evil micro.

[+Blind Avocado]

1. You can successfully squeeze in a cache or two on your lunch break

2. Your kids can tell others what the co-ordinates to the house but have no idea as to the actual address

3. You purchase your new car based on its potential caching abilities

4. You wouldn't dream of going on a vacation without first checking the local TB hotel to see if you can help any on their way.

Wow! 3 out of 4, and only because I don't have kids!

[+Byron & Anne]

You know who Dave Elmer is

One of your major goals in life is to visit cache #1

Who is Dave Elmer??

 

[+Mopar]

You know who Dave Elmer is

One of your major goals in life is to visit cache #1

Who is Dave Elmer??

 

Is he related to Dave Ulmer?

[+Mopar]

You Know You Are An Obsessed Geo-cacher If.......

 

You are away on business, and you call your wife on the phone, and make her join ClayJar's chat room to find out what's happening in the world of geocaching while you're gone, and relay it back to you.

 

We miss you too, mtn-man!

Edited March 7, 2004 by Mopar

[+CO Admin]

You know who Dave Elmer is

One of your major goals in life is to visit cache #1

Who is Dave Elmer??

 

Is he related to Dave Ulmer?

Yes both of their mothers were female

[IronMaiden]

You Know You Are Obessed With Geo-Cacher If............

Your husband calls you and tells you to meet him in town to look for a new printer. BTW Bring the GPS too. And you say OK.

Your mom is in the hosptial, you have a job interveiw in the afternoon. Your husband says, Hey a new cache has just been approved let's go. And you say. OK. OH Yeah, Ironman 114 was the first to find on that cache, so it wasn't a bad day. And I still went to see my mom and went on my job interveiw too.

[+Red Clover]

OMG.. my mother called tonight to tell me she was stranded in Savanna GA about 3 hrs away.. the first thing I thought was POCKET SEARCH!!!! Then she called and said you dont have to drive 3 hrs to get me the car has been fixed.. and I was disapointed!

[+Geo Ho]

You know you're obsessed when at the end of a day of caching you wind up like this . . .

 

 

 

Happy caching and stuff!

[dutchmaster]

You know your obsessed when your appearance, speech etc starts to remind people of GOLLUM!! (micros....I hates them)

Edited March 18, 2004 by dutchmaster

[+4leafclover]

just a day pack? I have a full backpack, and then some.

 

I know I'm obsessed...I keep toilet paper in mine!!!

 

(I claim it's for the 3yearold....)

[+The SuzyQs]

You know your obsessed with GeoCaching when:

 

1. your car is littered with McToys and you don't even have kids..

2. 95% of the numbers in your cell phone belong to other cachers...

3. You spend hours walking up and down the aisles of Home Depot looking for the next best cache container.

4. your on the way home from work. Home is only about 18 miles but you end up 40 miles in the oposite direction from home because you were just following the arrow to the next nearest cache.

5. the vehicle you just purchased 5 months ago with only 4 miles on it already has over 12,000 miles (mostly spent doing u-turns)

6. you have had the police called on you (michelle) because you were spotted disapearing in the woods with two small children in the rain. (true story)

[+Teamhawaii1981 & blueicyrose]

You go to the store and see the new cases for "Breathsavers 3-Hours" and think: "Man, those are really sweet micro containers!" Then buy them because of that.

[+Mystery Ink]

Your reading this thread and going, "Yes, yes, yes, not yet but great idea".

[+The Big Kahuna]

You can justify driving 200 miles on a weekend to exchange MAYBE $3.00 worth of goodies in caches even thou gas prices are over $3.00 per gallon.

Edited October 23, 2005 by thebigkahuna

[+dkwolf]

You have insta-notify emailed to your home email address, with filter set up in outlook to automatically forward it to your work address...with a filter set up there to alert you about it.

 

You have an auto-hide toolbar at the top of your computer screen with all of your really important work shortcuts....and a link to the Groundspeak forums.

 

You see a comment about checking the forums 3-4 times a day and think....'rookie'

[+jadeskyline]

I'm at work right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is what I do! I dream of finding a cache, then every once in a while, I get to find it! I keep a loaded pack with me almost everywhere i go! This is great!

[+Lizooki]

-Everyone in your family calls it a "GPSr"

 

-You carry a GPSr to go to the mailbox.

 

-You plan your whole day around getting at least one cache.

 

-Actual conversation.....

<me> It's 6:00....if we eat somewhere fairly quick....

<wife> we'll have 15 min. to go to the park and....

<me> still make it to church by 7:30...

 

Matt

Edited October 24, 2005 by Lizooki

[+humanloofa]

You have driven more than 100 miles to get a FTF. Guilty it would be my first, plus all the ones along the way.

[Team Firebird]

If you have ever slept with a travel bug under your pillow, you drive all the way back home from vacation because you forgot your gps, you have all the local geocaches memorized, if your three year old always thinks that every hike in the woods ends with finding a box.

[+Colorado Cacher]

You will do everything personally you need to do when they move the Pikes Peak and neighborhood mountain ranges.

[+Colorado Cacher]

When your in the Goodwill store looking for containers and run into other Geocachers doing the same thing.

 

Mr. Altoids you know who you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[+Airmapper]

Newbies think your a mod because you post so much.

 

You can rember peolple by thier username better than thier real one.

 

You demand that no used container may enter the garbage can without first being inspected for cache worthiness.

 

You can't pass a graveyard without thinking, "maybe I could put one there..."

[+Team BlackZ]

You phone your spouse from the woods asking he/she to e-mail the cache owner for a hint and to call you asap as soon as they get a reply.

[rocketmann]

... If you ended up on the wrong side of the Mississippi you would feel comfortable crossing it by walking across a log.

[+frivlas]

You have corrupted your children to the point that the older one who is five picks up a potato chip can in the store and announces that he wants to hide it as a cache. Then wants to take your GPSr to school for show and tell the following week.

[+Nov64]

After you get a manicure/pedicure you go caching

[+Ed Rad]

If your cell phone contact list is mostly geocachers and you entered their caching names instead of their real names.. if they have a real name.

[+The Leprechauns]

If your cell phone contact list is mostly geocachers and you entered their caching names instead of their real names.. if they have a real name.

Zoiks! Geocachers outnumber other numbers on my cellphone by a factor of more than 2:1. And yes, they're all entered by geocaching handle. As I scrolled through the list, it dawned on me that I'd better not lose track of my cellphone at an event cache. People would pay good money for some of the numbers in that book! For $200 I will sell you Hydee's number.

[+AndrewRJ]

If your cell phone contact list is mostly geocachers and you entered their caching names instead of  their real names.. if they have a real name. 

Zoiks! Geocachers outnumber other numbers on my cellphone by a factor of more than 2:1. And yes, they're all entered by geocaching handle. As I scrolled through the list, it dawned on me that I'd better not lose track of my cellphone at an event cache. People would pay good money for some of the numbers in that book! For $200 I will sell you Hydee's number.

So if 20 of us all chip in $10.... Hmmm

[+Jennifer&Dean]

You switch business trips with coworkers in order to visit sites you haven't cached near yet. And to get a cache in a state you haven't been to yet as well. And you don't mind that your flight takes ALL day as long as you can cache after work the next day. Hello Philly!

-J