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

Team Ladava · Post by **Team Ladava** » 03 November 11 7:55 pm

You have a team visiting from interstate and the weather looks threatening but you head out anyway. The weather deteriorates to intermittent downpours.
Wet boots, wet …..!
At one stage a statement is made and it is rationalised by my wife saying "Well, we are just normal people"
Hmm, out in the bush finding plastic lunch boxes in the pouring rain rather than .......!
I think she is finally infected with my addiction
Ian
Team Ladava

MtnLioness · Post by **MtnLioness** » 03 November 11 8:58 pm

GJMMelb wrote:
lemmykc wrote:@GJMMelb

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yeh but where do I get the url from??

I had already seen the "Img" thingy above and figured I had to put something in between and so looked at the photo on my PC and it just says Windows Live Photo Gallery with no url thingy lol

Annoying thing is I have definately done it before but cant remember how!!! lol

GJMMelb (J)

You first have to upload your image to a hosting site like Fliker or Photobucket

GJMMelb · Post by **GJMMelb** » 03 November 11 10:40 pm

MtnLioness wrote:
GJMMelb wrote:
lemmykc wrote:@GJMMelb

[img]{url}[/img]
yeh but where do I get the url from??

I had already seen the "Img" thingy above and figured I had to put something in between and so looked at the photo on my PC and it just says Windows Live Photo Gallery with no url thingy lol

Annoying thing is I have definately done it before but cant remember how!!! lol

GJMMelb (J)
You first have to upload your image to a hosting site like Fliker or Photobucket

But I havent done that before .......... although I'm pretty sure the photos I have posted before have been from cache logs (ie) Gnome photos last Dec/Jan so I would have got an url from there I guess.

Thanks everyone .... I'll see if I can find my photobucket account from many moons ago lol
GJMMelb (J)

GJMMelb · Post by **GJMMelb** » 03 November 11 11:00 pm

Thanks to all, especially Princess Diala re the Photobucket thingo!! I found my photo bucket account which I hadnt accessed for about 3.5years! lol

Ok............... so you know you are a geocacher when.....................

you walk past the following item and glance at it and .........

you think it says "GEO swagbag" !!!

gmj3191 · Post by **gmj3191** » 03 November 11 11:27 pm

... or you think
A gecko GPS would get lost in there
...or you think
Is that what that NZ cacher puts his stuff in ?

gmj3191 · Post by **gmj3191** » 07 November 11 6:41 pm

A couple of new ones emerged at a FTF event tonight....

a) .... when you're on the way home from hospital with wife and new baby and you convince her to stop just for a minute while you look in the bushes over there ....

b) .... when you're standing around talking after a FTF with other cachers, when you realise you left the kids at home alone and you need to rush to get there before your wife comes home ....

MtnLioness · Post by **MtnLioness** » 07 November 11 11:00 pm

gmj3191 wrote: b) .... when you're standing around talking after a FTF with other cachers, when you realise you left the kids at home alone and you need to rush to get there before your wife comes home ....

Not to put a dampener on it but I have thought about doing that many a time but the very thought of something happening to me while out and never returning to the kids while they're at home, alone and no-one else knows strikes me with sheer terror and I dare not. Even for FTF.
I HAVE however taxied it to a nearby FTF with the kids in the spitting rain while they were slightly unwell but in my defence, I would not have gotten the FTF had I not taken them because I needed to hoist the eldest child up the full length of my reach for him to detach it from the hiding place for me.

Another addition to theis thread....
While I was cycling back from a FTF the other night, a thought occored to me. You know you're a geocacher when you catch yourself passing street signs and making up pun laden cache titles to suit a hide on that street - Warn Lane: I warned you, Angely Street: Strangley Angely, Deary me....

gmj3191 · Post by **gmj3191** » 07 November 11 11:17 pm

MtnLioness wrote:
gmj3191 wrote: b) .... when you're standing around talking after a FTF with other cachers, when you realise you left the kids at home alone and you need to rush to get there before your wife comes home ....
Not to put a dampener on it but I have thought about doing that many a time but the very thought of something happening to me while out and never returning to the kids while they're at home, alone and no-one else knows strikes me with sheer terror and I dare not. Even for FTF.

Sheer lack of commitment ...

MtnLioness · Post by **MtnLioness** » 07 November 11 11:20 pm

gmj3191 wrote:
MtnLioness wrote:
gmj3191 wrote: b) .... when you're standing around talking after a FTF with other cachers, when you realise you left the kids at home alone and you need to rush to get there before your wife comes home ....
Not to put a dampener on it but I have thought about doing that many a time but the very thought of something happening to me while out and never returning to the kids while they're at home, alone and no-one else knows strikes me with sheer terror and I dare not. Even for FTF.
Sheer lack of commitment ...

Must just be a Mum thing

gmj3191 · Post by **gmj3191** » 08 November 11 6:15 pm

Oh I nearly forgot...
.... when, you have to find a third job for your wife in order to pay your Eastlink tolls....

rudi63 · Post by **rudi63** » 09 November 11 3:58 pm

I thought I had this hobby under control, but I knew I was in trouble when I left work early due to illness, but still stopped on the way home to deploy a new cache.......

d.d.dudes · Post by **d.d.dudes** » 10 November 11 10:29 pm

..... you go on a trek with some bushwalkers and stop and stare at an unusual stump with a hole. The question blurts out ........."What are you doing?.."............Answer.........."......nothing!"

chillibutts · Post by **chillibutts** » 13 November 11 7:16 pm

... you make your hardware decisions based on the type of container it comes it!

Wow, those bosch drill bits come in one awesome caching container!

gmj3191 · Post by **gmj3191** » 23 November 11 10:14 pm

... you're on a road trip and you stay at a flea bag motel.
You decide to have cereal for breakfast but you forgot to bring a bowl.
You look in the local shop and you're about to grab a plastic bowl
when you realise a sistema will work just as well, and has later possibilities .....

lemmykc · Post by **lemmykc** » 27 November 11 8:13 am

Came up with a few more today.

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

......A cache has just been published and when you rock up to the location, you see a police car. BUT, you know that the police car is not there for duty
....You are standing out in the pouring rain waiting for a waypoint to average because you forgot about your froggies
.....As soon as you hear that you are going to the USA in 2 weeks as a christmas present, the first thing you do is check for the close caches

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