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

Waterwells · Post by **Waterwells** » 08 January 05 5:52 pm

Horus wrote:You know you are a geocacher when. . . .

You invite someone around to your place for the first time and all you give them is the co-ordinates to the front gate*

* Or in our case when the house is out in the sticks. . . . they get a multi !

Been there, done that !! ...

Waterwells · Post by **Waterwells** » 08 January 05 6:36 pm

Bronze wrote: 3) Each time you go buy milk, bread or pick up pizza you end up coming home with $10 worth of $2 shop items.

GUILTY!!

Bronze wrote: 6) The time spent not caching is used planning, preparing, surfing, chatting, emailing, debating and event cache related stuff.

GUILTY!!

Bronze wrote: 7) You wake up with a great cache idea and can't get back to sleep.

GUILTY!!

And one more!

When trying to explain the geo-caching concept to family and friends, and all the while trying to assure them that we 'haven't' gone totally insane ... and yet, they still don't 'get it'???? ....

GUILTY!!!!

swampgecko · Post by **swampgecko** » 08 January 05 6:37 pm

Pesky! wrote:...when you have a back yard full of these 
<img src="http://www.geomonkeys.com/barrels.jpg"> 
And 
i. You then have to search for cache-holes big enough for them
under threat of divorce if they aren't moved soon.
 
ii. you spend your annual salary at the $2 store just trying to fill the &(&^&)@(#_) things!

You been sneeking shots over my back fence again???

swampgecko · Post by **swampgecko** » 08 January 05 6:40 pm

You know you are a geocacher when....

The guys in your workshop, instead of throwing out the empty component boxes and tins like they normally do, bring them in and pile them up on your desk...

Geof · Post by **Geof** » 08 January 05 9:48 pm

You know your a geocacher when you acidently slip in caching words like "muggles" etc and your audience looks at you weird.

Or you hold your GPSr out of view of the muggles in their car just to check were caches are to speed up things next time you go that way

.

Or you make some dumb comment in a forum about archiving your caches as a temporary protest against groundspeak and people take you to litraly and you then loose sleep over it.

Phlosten · Post by **Phlosten** » 13 January 05 6:34 pm

You know your a Geocacher when....

..you duck down to KFC to pick up a feed for the family and end up adding 30 kilometres to the trip just to log a cache.


I am actually guilty of this one. Other half wasnt impressed when I returned somewhat overdue.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 13 January 05 10:58 pm

Phlosten - Lets divorce them!

Mine does the same - It's so annoying. I try so hard to get lost and yet she is so unsupportive.
My wife literally hide my wallet so I can't fill the car up with fuel and do 300km round trips to find cache locations and maintain far afield caches.

You know you a geocacher when you wife say "Good night", and you genuinely didn't hear her!

The Bronze.

sbalogh53 · Post by **sbalogh53** » 13 January 05 11:02 pm

I have transcribed the following from a similar thread that just started up. I am guilty on all counts!

You know you're addicted when .... 
You stand in the supermarket in front of the party supplies and wonder which party toys will fit in a cache the best... 
You stand in the supermarket in front of the plastic lunch boxes and only see cache containers. No other uses, just caches. 
You don't go anywhere without your cache bag. 
You thrust your hand into dark cobwebbed holes where no sane person would ever contemplate putting their hand. 
You buy a $600 pocket PC for the sole purpose of taking all your cache notes with you. Saves having all those printouts and missed caches. 
Your holiday destination is completely determined by the number of caches you have not yet found in the area. 
You go for a 23km walk in the middle of the forest to find a Derringer cache. You are 2 hours late to return, completely exhausted, and semi-dehydrated, but your only concern is that you could not find the cache.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 13 January 05 11:15 pm

Guilty on all counts (except the Pocket PC - Rememebr the wife has the wallet)

Bronze.

mholdern · Post by **mholdern** » 20 January 05 2:14 pm

You attempt to train your dog to siff out geocahes. 

You arrange an emergency geocaching session late on a moonless night the day before you have to go to work because you found a new virgin cache in the logs and you know team x will be going that way tomorrow and they are sure to log it. 

The above cache is in the middle of some featureless scrub dense enough to screw up your GPS. You don't have a reliable torch or a compass and you don't set a waypoint so you can find your way back to the car. 

Cheers, 

Team Spanner

Lt. Sniper · Post by **Lt. Sniper** » 20 January 05 2:28 pm

Bronze wrote:2) You look on the dash of cars at traffic lights and cars passing you (both directions) for a GPS in a mobile phone holder

YES! All the time!
I once saw someone with a GPS and was so temped to pull them over and tell them about geocaching. My friend said he would ignore me forever if I did it.

Geof wrote:You know your a geocacher when you acidently slip in caching words like "muggles" etc and your audience looks at you weird.

I called someone a muggle once, used the excuse that my sister (7yo) is a huge Harry Potter fan

sbalogh53 wrote: Your holiday destination is completely determined by the number of caches you have not yet found in the area.

More like when ever you leave the house..."Oh I might go visit Zac today...and get those 4 caches along the way"

****
For me, you know when youÃ‚â€™re a Geocacher when you loose sleep every weekend because your Geocaching till 4 in the morning.

There are 14 batteries lying next to the battery charger to power the mass amount of torches and GPS for a quick cache attack at night.

You up your RACQ level because you know that your going to break down one day attempting a cache thatÃ‚â€™s meant for 4x4s in your Lancer.

You religiously check for new caches before you go to bed and when you wake up in the morning/afternoon.

Team Red Devil · Post by **Team Red Devil** » 20 January 05 7:21 pm

You also know you're an addicted Geocacher when you are out caching till 2am, come home, stumble in, fall asleep- and then dream about caching, so you wake up exhausted! This has happened to me ssssooo many times since we started caching! And if any of you see us cruisin- (You'll know us- we're the crazies in the dark blue commodore with 'Team Red Devil' stickered on the back windscreen, and the 1.5mtr CB Antenna off the passengers side front guard!!) feel free to holler, scream and otherwise get our attention

hehehehe!

Marie- TRD.

aloysius · Post by **aloysius** » 20 January 05 10:29 pm

For me its when you say "lets go for a picnic at such and such a place" and fiance says "yeh that would be nice as long as we're not caching.

Also:
Giving people the co-ords to thier xmas present and hiding it down the road - GUILTY
Getting exited at the mention of a sistema cliplock - GUILTY
Giving People Premade caches for Xmas just so they can hide it for you to find - GUILTY
Being given a pre labled cache container for xmas - GUILTY
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Team Red Devil · Post by **Team Red Devil** » 21 January 05 5:22 am

I wish someone would make me a pre-made cache

Marie