[Az-Geocaching] Food for Thought

[SSpackeen at aol.com]

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 at 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

 

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