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Just looking for a few ideas to help me know how I can tell if I am addicted to Geocacheing. Anybody out there that can help me?
If you figure out a puzzle cache that you’ve been working on for two weeks at 11:00pm while laying in bed and go and do the cache, your addicted, if you wait till 5:00am to do it your not addicted, well maybe not.
“A bad day of hunting is better than a good day at work”You’re addicted is you’ve found this cache…
Aaaaahgh! It’s boring into my head! MUST…NOT…DO…IT!
If you suspect you are a cacheaholic, you probably are.
* Do you “notice” excellent places for caches as you’re driving down the road?
* Do you check what caches are near your destination when planning a trip (even for a short trip to a different city)?
* Have you made, or are you planning to make, personalized trade items?
* Have you, or are you planning to, upgrade your GPSr? (even though this one probably works fine)
* When you go shopping, do you unconciously look for good trade items?
If the answer to ANY of these is ‘yes’ you’re addicted. And, given that you posted the question here, I think we all know the answer, now don’t we?
The story is told here: http://www.wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/000169.html
You know you are addicted:
1. When you walk thru Wal-mart and say “Oooh that would make an EXCELLENT cache container.
2. When you carry you GPS EVERYWHERE…. and I mean EVERYWHERE.
3. When your son/daughter is making plans for a wedding or shower and you ask them to change the date becasue there is a WGA event that weekend.
We haven’t been at this long–but the day after we went Geocaching for the first time, my husband took off of work to go again. And he is one of those people who goes to work even when he’s sick.
I’d say that’s the start of an addiction!
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Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave:
You’re addicted is you’ve found this cache…Whew! For a minute there I thought I may be addicted, but thanks to DaveI now know that isn’t true! I didn’t find this cache! I wasn’t there, it wasn’t me so…yippee…no addiction here!
MajorBrat[This message has been edited by MajorBrat (edited 07-05-2005).]
I know this topic is mainly for fun, but here’s an interesting column to remind us that moderation and having a well-rounded life with different interests and activites is important to our overall well-being: http://www.jsonline.com/lifestyle/advice/jul05/338011.asp
After reading the article, if I understand you correctly, we should make our house a geocache in order to satisfy women obscessed with se-. (I assume it would work for both genders.) Hang on while I submit…
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Originally posted by Opossum:
After reading the article, if I understand you correctly, we should make our house a geocache in order to satisfy women obscessed with se-. (I assume it would work for both genders.) Hang on while I submit…HUH?
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Originally posted by rpaske:
HUH?Got to admit I’m scratching my head over that one, too.
I must have mixed the woman’s obsession of se- and geocaching. Wonder how that happened. 😛
I was at a local bar the other night with a long-time friend to celebrate her birthday. Most of the people there were mid 30’s and single, her and I included. A good-looking woman with curves reserved for all the right places came up to me, and out of the blue whispered in my ear something along the lines that if I wasn’t busy showing my friend a good time later that night she’d show me one. I’m a somewhat reserved kind of guy who hadn’t said much that night, and am not a bar regular. If that’s the dating scene, things have gotten a whole lot easier over the years. I thought the person had to be drunk, ugly, and it be right before bar close for something like that to happen. I’d rate that cache 0/1 for difficulty, only because I was standing.
After reading the Journal article, the term GeoSlu–ing came to mind, with a different type of cache. (I wasn’t serious, of course.) It seems, however, the use of a GPS is completely unnecessary.
It’s gotta be addiction. Ms. Honeybunny caught me talking in my sleep about caching. And go figure, it was about numbers. A lurking demon in my subconscious? Ha!
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