You know you're a Geocacher when............................

Post by **caughtatwork** » 27 January 05 4:38 pm

Only on a FTF and then there's no rules AFAIC.
A brand new cache all ready to go sounds like a FTF to me

Team Red Devil · Post by **Team Red Devil** » 27 January 05 4:55 pm

AFAIC? *Please excuse my ignorance-not seen this one before*

Maybe he could turn your cache into a swaggie? And then it could get itself to you?

Hey now thats a good idea!! 
 
Marie

Slider & Smurf · Post by **Slider & Smurf** » 27 January 05 4:58 pm

Maybe a variation of AFAIK - 'as far as I know'??

Lt. Sniper · Post by **Lt. Sniper** » 27 January 05 4:59 pm

as far as im concerned

Team Red Devil · Post by **Team Red Devil** » 27 January 05 5:01 pm

I kinda wondered that- I thought it might have been 'As Far As I Can 'C'' possibly. 
 
Marie

Post by **caughtatwork** » 27 January 05 5:15 pm

Oops.
Not As Far As I Care (I do care), but as someone mentioned As Far As I'm Concerned.
But back on topic.

You know you're a geocacher when ...

You're at BigW heading towards the toy section and the kids want to know why you're buying $2 toys that they never get to pay with.

The grass in the backyard is no longer green naturally, but only green because you've spraypainted your latest set of boxes.

You look at 'natural' items wondering how you can drill a hole into that?

You have friends interstate that are looking for a parking meter for you and then asking if you'll pay the shipping.

ian-and-penny · Post by **ian-and-penny** » 27 January 05 6:14 pm

caughtatwork wrote:First in best dressed.

NO! It's for Red Devil, if they come and get it!

Post by **caughtatwork** » 27 January 05 6:51 pm

Of course, I was only joking.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 27 January 05 7:18 pm

Cached wrote:Maybe he could turn your cache into a swaggie? And then it could get itself to you?

Of course it would have to stop and work at a couple of places along the way.

...you turn a corner and all you can hear is tin, tuppaware and glass sliding across the back of the wagon.

...you search the local listing waiting for a fix, I mean find to go and get.

...You hide dog food (Smackos) in a tin and hide it and tell you dog "go get!" in the hope he will do the same for you at your next FTF attempt.

...A cache denotes a significant place in your life like a wedding, family camp site, romantic view, fav parking lookout

Bronze.

sbalogh53 · Post by **sbalogh53** » 27 January 05 8:22 pm

...you do a Partic cache in St Kilda at 3 in the morning because it is the only time the cafe crowd are not sitting next to the GZ. Of course, you know that you will be searching for clues in a homosexual haunt and risk getting bashed by the local hoons. Damn the risk! Go get that cache!

sbalogh53 · Post by **sbalogh53** » 06 February 05 1:25 am

You know when you are addicted when...

you drive 80km to get a FTF during the worst storm Melbourne has seen for a while, go home, decode the first clue at 3am, then drive another 80km to get the next clue, decode at 5am, think about driving another 80km to get the third clue when you realise you have to be getting out of bed in about an hour. You then take the day off and get your wife to take the kids to school! Next night you continue the process...

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 06 February 05 7:22 am

I've had to do somethng similar to that but fortunately I haven't had to have a day off yet.

...you walk down the street and you have this sence of paranoia that eveyone in town thinks you are looking for or hiding a cache.

...you are on first name basis with the garden maintenance boss of the local city council.

...you recommend as archive on another cache so you can have that cache location or one nearby.

...wives start complaining that your never home enough and ask where that 40 litres of fuel went they put in two days ago.

...kids sit and whisper to each other "Who is that?" when you have just come in for some dinner.

...you show signs of white line fever when behind the wheel.

...you have test caches stashed in various microclimates for your own curiosity on durability.

...people in you workplace nautrally address you by your cache name and have almost forgotten your real one.

...You choose a camping / caching weekend over servicing the car.

The Bronze.

sbalogh53 · Post by **sbalogh53** » 06 February 05 11:02 am

Bronze wrote:...You choose a camping / caching weekend over servicing the car.
The Bronze.

Ummm. My car is currently 4000km past its service date, mainly because I was busy doing a bunch of caches when the car should have been serviced. I needed the car that day for caching!

I have now justified to myself that putting a bit of extra oil into the engine and checking fluid levels constitutes an emergency service and will tide me over to the next real one.

Post by **CraigRat** » 06 February 05 1:28 pm

You know you are a geocacher when............

You go to Melbourne for WORK and you end up taking a whole other suitcase just to hold swaps, cables, gpsr, inverter, laptop and spare boots.....

And Also:
You know you are a geocacher when your boss asks why the car you have had since November already has 20,000 on the clock....

Geof · Post by **Geof** » 06 February 05 10:03 pm

.......when you go to a meeting and some body on the other side of the room rattles somthing that sounds like a TB & chain and you just loose the plot trying to work out if it realy was a TB or not

and who's pocket it's in