Neighborhood parks

[glorkar]

Is it odd that I look forward to cold and rainy weather to enjoy a park these days?

[koolma_k]

@glorkar wrote:

Is it odd that I look forward to cold and rainy weather to enjoy a park these days?

Nah, it just makes it alot easier to find caches with out the minature muggles seeing you 🙂 (I am thinking about going out for a little bit today myself)

[Team Deejay]

You guys must have missed the “Fun with Muggles” chapter of the geocaching course. My experience is that as long as you aren’t in the middle of a large group activity, like a sporting event, muggles can be trusted with the cache location, as long as they are brought in on the secret by you. Let them help you find the cache, and show them the cache if find it. For little ones, exchange some swag for them. Then give them instructions that they are to guard the cache from outsiders. Most people like it when you give them trust and responsibility.

My favorite case was hunting “Hissy Fit” in the Pewaukee area. As we were heading for the final, we noticed some 10 year old boys sitting in a tree maybe 30 feet off the ground. We waved to them, and continued on. As we got to ground zero, they yelled at us, asking if we were “looking for that thing”. “Why yes”, we replied, “did you take it?” They both jumped out of their perch and ran down to us. One looked kind of sheepish and said “Not exactly….we buried it!” So we had them dig it up for us. After logging in, we told them not to bury it again, but if they saw anyone else looking for it, they should chase them away waving their toy tomahawks. I was really looking forward to some interesting logs, but the owner moved the final, thwarting our evil plans. Booo!

[koolma_k]

Ohhhhhhh that would have been fun if the cache had stayed in its location… I will have to remember that one 😈

I have done that a few times, given people a geocaching 101 when they get curious about my “suspicious activities” I have a guy in Butler that had a cache across the street from his house, the thought that all the recent activity was people looking to buy land… now he can be amused watching them struggle to find the cache 🙂 (it was a bit of a bugger!!)

[MawandPawKettle]

@Team Deejay wrote:

My favorite case was hunting “Hissy Fit” in the Pewaukee area. As we were heading for the final, we noticed some 10 year old boys sitting in a tree maybe 30 feet off the ground. We waved to them, and continued on. As we got to ground zero, they yelled at us, asking if we were “looking for that thing”. “Why yes”, we replied, “did you take it?” They both jumped out of their perch and ran down to us. One looked kind of sheepish and said “Not exactly….we buried it!” So we had them dig it up for us. After logging in, we told them not to bury it again, but if they saw anyone else looking for it, they should chase them away waving their toy tomahawks. I was really looking forward to some interesting logs, but the owner moved the final, thwarting our evil plans. Booo!

Ha ha. Reminds of one we found in St. Nazianz. GC1XP7Y It seems two kids know where it is and like to heckle people looking for it.
Dawn

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