+SlideRule Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 What strange things do you do because you like to GeoCache? -or- You know you are a GeoCacher when: 1) When you leave the house, you check that you have all the essentials: Keys, wallet, GPS'r 2) When you see someone wandering about looking at his 'Cell Phone' do you think GeoCacher? 3) Do you carry around bits of paper with numbers on it like N 43 34.567 ? 4) You have a file cabinet in your car to keep track of all the paper descriptions of the caches you haven't found? 5) You constantly are on the lookout for places to place the next cache? If you do, you might be a geocacher. Others? Quote Link to comment
umc Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 I drink beer because I'm a geocacher but I don't think it's strange. Quote Link to comment
+teepeeayy Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 I've started going through life saying "is *that* a good place for a cache? How about over there?" I can't stop! Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 You are going to take a vacation, so you look up the zip codes of your destinations and do a cache search for those locales so you can go geocaching there. You have an inverter that connects to the cigarette lighter in your car so you can recharge the GPSr's batteries on the road. Quote Link to comment
+Night_Hawk Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 You know you are a GeoCacher when: You keep a cache in the truck ready to plant.....JUST IN CASE you find a spot that desperately needs a cache The people at the dollar store know you on a first name basis. Quote Link to comment
+SlideRule Posted March 23, 2005 Author Share Posted March 23, 2005 The people at the dollar store know you on a first name basis. Ha Ha Ha - So true Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 When you buy a lap top computer so that you can check for new caches when you are out of town, If course you always stay in hotes with free internet service. You keep you GPS hooked up to your computer just in case a new cache pops up Every place you go within 50 miles of home involves passing caches you have found in the past. Quote Link to comment
+Kit Fox Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Already been discussed. Signs your caching too much You know your a cacher The orginal You might be a cacher if Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 ...you just can't visit wal-mart without buying a few more trade items. Typical checkout includes 4-$1 calculators, 2-$1 flashlights, a deck of cards etc........ - same clerk asks to visit the store you are opening. Quote Link to comment
+Clan X-Man Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 You are going to take a vacation, so you look up the zip codes of your destinations and do a cache search for those locales so you can go geocaching there. You have an inverter that connects to the cigarette lighter in your car so you can recharge the GPSr's batteries on the road. I do this every night when I get my work orders as I go to several different zips within 150 miles. SAD. X Quote Link to comment
+Deliveryguy428 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 You rush to the nearest local library to log caches when your on a day trip of caches in a town your not familiar with Quote Link to comment
+GeoTeam Maggi Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 You point out every Yellow Jeep that you see... Most of your descriptions start out with the prefix geo-... You own a spare GPS, just in case... Your bag of swag and supplies that goes out the door each morning is bigger than your breifcase... Quote Link to comment
+GeoTeam Maggi Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 When your wife begins using caching as a bribe. "If I go to Vegas that weekend with my friends, you can spend the whole weekend Geocaching" (True story) Funny, I might not miss her Quote Link to comment
+paul2tele Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Answers to questions: 1) yes 2) yes 3) yes 4) yes 5) yes just ten days and a couple of two day followups..... (submitted after going after four caches at night over 750 miles away from home on a business trip) Quote Link to comment
+Tidalflame Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 ...you feel your vacations after 2000 were wasted, because you could have been geocaching had you known about it! Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 How about when your mother - who claims to be a muggle - greets you in the living room with a freshly emptied pill jar and you don't think it's odd. (I swear, She'll be logging on line sooner than you think) Quote Link to comment
utm Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 You go to the one hour photo and ask for Microcaches with the roll of film in them. You stare longingly at a stack of ammo cans at a local swap meet You ask the clerk at Wal Mart if "These rubbermaid containers are UV resistant". You laugh at a coworker that has a GPS that only holds 500 waypoints. Quote Link to comment
+AtoZ Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Your only a true cache when you take the MOST diffucult way to a cache because it is the shortest distance. cheers Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 When you check the update page on your printing service Multiple times a day to see if your signature cards have been sent yet. Quote Link to comment
+WARedBear Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 When you read all of the threads on this forum..... Quote Link to comment
+Camo-crazed Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Oh goody, another thread like this. I love this. 1. Have you missed classes or work because of geocaching? 2. Do you have trouble refusing geocaching? 3. Do you need geocaching in order to have fun at a party? 4. Do you use geocaching to build up your self-confidence 5. Do you use geocaching to help you relax? 6. Have you tried to give up geocaching and failed? 7. Do you crave geocaching as soon as you wake up? 8. Do you get into trouble because of geocaching? 9. Do you crave geocaching at a definite time daily? 10. Do you lie to others about how often you partake in Geocaching? 11. Have you gotten into financial difficulties because of geocaching? 12. Do you often wish people would just mind their own business about you and geocaching? 13. When you are in a store, you look at every hollow object as a potential cache container. 14. You spend most of your time in a dollar store looking for swag. 15. Everywhere you go, you are always looking for a hiding spot. 16. You get really excited when you find a new park. 17. Do you check geocaching.com web site more than once a day? 18. Has your GPSr ever been confiscated "for your own good"? 19.You no longer visualize/think of the city in terms of streets and addresses but rather cache locations. 20. When you start giving out coordinates instead of map directions to a particular location (like your house). 21. You’ve had more “conversations” on your Garmin than on your REAL cell phone. 22. Your wedding invitation features a Difficulty / Terrain rating. 23. You realize you can now read the hints without clicking “Decrypt”or looking at the key. 24. You get distracted watching movies because you keep scanning the background scenery, thinking, “That’d be a GREAT place for a cache!” 25. The clerks at McDonald's are getting suspicious. 26. You name your youngest child, "Micro." 27. Your boss takes you aside and asks about the smell of DEET when you come back from a long lunch. You lie and claim it's cheap gin. 28. Your significant other calls you to dinner through the forums. 29. The police follow you home after another of your massive ZipLoc shopping runs. 30. Everyone else puts a quarter in the coffee fund jar in the office break room. You TAKE a quarter, leave a Travel Bug, and cover the jar with pine straw. And the most important symptom of all: you have a list like that at a moments notice Quote Link to comment
+j9cache & Mike(j9+M) Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Your dogs e-mail other dogs who geocache. Quote Link to comment
+tands Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You're listening to the hoops game on the radio. A commercial for a Plumbing and Gas supply company comes on. They're advertising gas logs, but you hear 'cache logs' the first time and do a double take. - T Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You call a local pizza place for supper that doesn't deliver. You pull up your closest unfound caches and see that there is one right in the neighborhood of the pizza place. You leave immediately so you can try and get it in before the pizza is ready (in 25 minutes) Only to get caught by a train and miss your opportunity!!! YEP!! THIS HAPPENED TO ME, JUST TONIGHT!! D-man Quote Link to comment
+M&DofKJE Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Pitiful. Which unfound cache within 25 minutes? Absolutely pitiful. You should have found all those by now. My wife sent me driving 40 miles away to hit 500. She didn't want to be in the 400's so close to 500 any more. One of my favorites. If your friends say "Let's go to Cracker Barrel" and you say, "Naw, already found it."... you might be a wee bit addicted. Quote Link to comment
+Team Shydog Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You name your new kitten Garmin. He was small and yellow. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You name your new kitten Garmin. He was small and yellow. I would do that! OK, true recent happening (just today): You are overjoyed about finding your cheap GPS that was lost almost a year ago and long since replaced so that you can give it to a friend to hook them on caching! This is to the point that that you plan on how to gift wrap and present it to them! Quote Link to comment
+scott9282 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You look on e-bay and see a box of "scouting" compasses for sale and buy the lot. You're now known as the "Compass King" of the neighborhood. You give out compasses for Halloween. You realize you're optically challenged in the distance estimating department and obtain a bow-hunter's rangefinder to help when you get close in. You look at GPSr's the way you used to look at your girlfriend/wife/hubby/whatever. And they understand. Quote Link to comment
+WARedBear Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 OK, true recent happening (just today): You are overjoyed about finding your cheap GPS that was lost almost a year ago and long since replaced so that you can give it to a friend to hook them on caching! This is to the point that that you plan on how to gift wrap and present it to them! smile.gif That is easy...hide it...take the coord reading...put them into your GPSr....do a GOTO...and have your friend find it. Quote Link to comment
aquarose Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You are so sunburned that your legs and feet are swollen, you can't walk, you have missed 4 days of class and your first day at your new job, the pain is so bad that your doctor put you on Vicodin yet you decide to deal with the agony, crawl to your husband's car and help him find a cache all so that you can see how well your new mapping software works with the gps. And they were worried I would get addicted to the Vicotin. Quote Link to comment
+mzmtg Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You are so sunburned that your legs and feet are swollen, you can't walk, you have missed 4 days of class and your first day at your new job, the pain is so bad that your doctor put you on Vicodin yet you decide to deal with the agony, crawl to your husband's car and help him find a cache all so that you can see how well your new mapping software works with the gps. And they were worried I would get addicted to the Vicotin. Now THAT'S dedication! Quote Link to comment
TCE Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 This is to the point that that you plan on how to gift wrap and present it to them! Why not wrap it in yellow paper?...and use a little magnetic compass for the bow? Quote Link to comment
+backinthesaddle Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You give the pizza delivery guy coordinates. Quote Link to comment
+tands Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 yes, aquarose, but it did get you out of that final exam!!!! - T Quote Link to comment
geokilt Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 You give the pizza delivery guy coordinates. First you drive to the pizza store with a GPSr on GOTO to your house and tell the place you want a delivery. Quote Link to comment
Charles Iverson Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 if you only go to a millitary store just to get ammo cans for caches or if you start going around try to make any thing you can in to a cache if you pull over on the highway when ever your gps beeps!! pack up to 20 batterys with you so you don't run out Quote Link to comment
+SlideRule Posted March 26, 2005 Author Share Posted March 26, 2005 You have two GPS'r One for the car and the other moble (out of the car) You are in a foreign city looking for a 1/1 and the GPS'r points to a light pole. Without leaving the car you know to raise the skirt of the light pole, first. Quote Link to comment
+SlideRule Posted March 29, 2005 Author Share Posted March 29, 2005 When you go by a know cache site. And you look to see if anyone is searching. Quote Link to comment
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