Ever headed into the desert with a shirt and tie on...?  Packed a fanny pack and walking stick for the treacherous trek across a Target parking lot...?  Closely inspected a sprinkler system timer box...?  Shined a flashlight all around a covered-parking canopy at closing time...?  Arrived in a car, wondered off somewhere, returned to said car, dashed back to nowhere, returned quickly again, and drove off, ignoring the local place of business...?  Showed too much interest in somebody's fence post...?  DISSEMBLED someone's private property...?  Defended your collection of plastic children's toys...?
 
Seriously - how many of us have pretended that our GPS is a cell phone...?  Come on now, 'fess up!
 
And NOBODY looks like they belong in the immediate vicinity of piko de peklo!
 
THESE are the fun ones, but once I know where a cache is, I really don't enjoy 15 minutes of foot-shuffling with my thumb up my ass waiting to make the extraction...
 
Final comment - for those teams with 4000 finds to their credit, a 15-minute wait might cost them 6 or 8 finds! 
 
In a message dated 1/26/05 6:05:39 PM US Mountain Standard Time, sstringh@stringham-family.org writes:
Scott,
Some of us draw more attention in certain locations than others. Do we
look like we fit into the neighborhood? Do we look dressed to be looking
at utility boxes?

And, then there are those of us that are just plain unique in every way
;-) .


Roping The Wind wrote:

> I mean, a cacher can only use so much 'stealth'. I mean, you cant be
> invisible!!! Sometimes, just your presence in a given location is
> enough to make people look over at you and wonder what you are doing.
> (like security and police or nearby business owners, etc). For
> instance, scrutinizing a utility/electric box, etc. Invariably,
> someone is likely to give away the cache location simply by being
> there and searching for the cache.
>
> Scott
> Team RTW