+Peztone Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Today I travelled from my home in Suffolk 250 miles to work in North Wales, on the way I planned to doa few caches to stop me getting bored. During the drive I landed up in convoy with my work buddy who I have worked with for 15 years.. he's a placid funny chap who I get on with very well, I called him on the cellphone and asked if he wanted to do a cache with me as I figured he could do with another hobby and I could get him into geocaching.. We approached "Happy Meal" which is right by the road we were driving up, so no big detour, parked the cars, I loaded the coordinates into my iQue, launched CacheNav, explained to my friend that the arrow is pointing to the cache and the distance would count down as he neared the target.. then... WHOOSH! off he went like a greyhoud out of a trap. I ran after him wondering what the panic was.. I treat geocaching like a gentle stroll in the country, he was a man posessed! I caught up with him at the top of a path in some trees looking confused; "The arrows going mad!" he cried, "yeah it's the tree cover, just walk about a bit and get a consensus I offered.. "ZOOOM!!!.." he went, dashing this way & that, it was at this point I broke out the clue, it was helpful, but not a giveaway, the GPS wouldn't give us an accurate fix, but the clue was good enough for us to start searching the rocks all around us.. he was dashing about like a lunatic screaming "It's not here! it's not here!" "yes, I explained, that's the fun, hunting for it.." "eh?" he replied before scrambling up a muddy bank with my precious iQue in his left hand.. then it started to snow.. We were in shirtsleeves and getting soaked wasn't on the agenda so started to make our way back to the car.. once I was under a clear sky I looked at the GPS (I'd taken it back off him because he was going to break it!) the cache was 300 feet away, "It's over there" I said.. VROOOOM! he went away from the cars into the snow.. "NO!! I shouted, not that way!" "I want to look over HERE!" he shouted back like a 2 year old.. "It's not there" I muttered like a disapointed father.. I started making my way back to the car.. then from behind me I heard the sound of someone running reeeeally fast, we were going down a hill. ..now, we all remember being 9 years old and running down a hill don't we.. we all remember how our bodies started going faster than our legs and then the inevitable... VRRROOOOOM CRASH! SKIIIIDDDDD.. rolled the 39 year old business professional past me in the mud & shingle... Tomorrow we have work to do in the County Court, my friend has mud splattered trousers and a pronounced limp. I ticked off an easier cache later in the drive, he watched from his car, I don't think I converted a newbie. (And who knew my placid, father of 2, sensible friend is actually a lunatic??) -Steve Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Some people fit the axom, if it's worth doing it's worth overdoing to a T. Quote Link to comment
CoyoteRed Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 ROFLMAO! Wiping tears from my eyes! Best laugh from these forums in a long time. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Ay yi yi!!!! Sounds like a pretty wound up guy! Great story! Quote Link to comment
+rover-r-us Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 (edited) LOL now that funny. Edited March 10, 2004 by rover-r-us Quote Link to comment
+Mastifflover Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Your buddy needs to switch to decaf!! Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 That's great stuff. I hope he still has the same zest for caching and life after his 1000th find and 2000th post. Quote Link to comment
Vacman Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 That is a great story! Quote Link to comment
+PeachyPA Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Having a son who is currently nine years old, I know how they can charge into things with reckless abandon. This is truly how my son behaves at times as well. Great story! Thanks for the chuckle. Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Great story. I rank it up there with JollyBGood's swamp story which makes me laugh inside every time I think of it. Quote Link to comment
+KF6JML Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 I actually laughed out loud at that story... even the THIRD time I read it! Gotta save this one. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
+Perrin Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 hahahahahaahahahahahahahaha!! That was really great! Quote Link to comment
bug and snake Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Now, that was funny - Tell us, will you show him this thread? Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 it might not hurt to slip him a couple of valium about an hour before you ask him to cache again. Quote Link to comment
+GPSKitty Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 That was great! I laughed through the whole story. Very well told, thank you. It seems your friend thinks that geocaching is some type of a race? He'd be a perfect partner if you want to try for a lot of caches in one day. His nickname could be CacheRacer I'm trying to picture the event in my mind and I'm still laughing.... GPSKitty Quote Link to comment
Cholo Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 For some reason, I can't decide if this reminds me of a Monty Python or Benny Hill skit. Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 it might not hurt to slip him a couple of valium about an hour before you ask him to cache again. Maybe he thought it was geocashing. If free money was involved, I would be that excited.... Quote Link to comment
goldfishy Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 HAHAHHHHHAHAHAHA....I also was ROFLMAO and was tearing up! This is how all of my caching experiences have been thus far! SOMETHING crazy always happens! At the time it may not always be so funny, but all of them I can laugh at later! THE MOST IMPORTANT ? NOW IS ... DID YOU GET A PICTURE?! Quote Link to comment
+Team Grizzly Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 (edited) I think its pretty fun to watch a newbie cacher/GPS user who cannot figure out the the "North Up" concept, so they keep rotating the unit to make the map arrow face the direction that they want to go. Then, they get defensive when you explain that it wont work - "I know what I'm doing!" they say, not realizing that the antenna needs to be up... I guess I was a stubborn want to learn it myself to! Edited March 11, 2004 by Team Grizzly Quote Link to comment
+WalruZ Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 There's one of those guys in every sizable cache machine. Quote Link to comment
+Peztone Posted March 11, 2004 Author Share Posted March 11, 2004 The north up concept!! yes! he did that too.. held the GPS at 45 degrees to "up" ..and ran sideways... I won't be showing him this thread, just the thought that I mentioned it would set him off, at the court today I told a room full of attractive young ladies that he'd "run down a hill a little faster than his legs and taken a spill" they all burst out laughing & he could do nothing more than join in.. He wouldn't talk about Geocaching though, I did a cache close to the job, his only comment: "I've had it with that stupid game.." "Game?" My friend, it's a treat for the mind & body which only the truly enlightened can appreciate.. -Steve Quote Link to comment
+Brenin Tegeingl Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Having done Happy Meal, I know the problems with a GPSr there. Also I can imagine him tearing around there, it took us about a hour to find it, and that was with the aid of the clue. After reading your post my son had to pick up of the floor, as I actualy fell of the chair with laughter. Dave Quote Link to comment
+Red Clover Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 LOL Thanks I needed that.. occasionally my son gets to running round like a rat on crack too.. but a grown man.. I probably woulda pee'd myself laughing. Quote Link to comment
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