One aspect of caching that we all seem to come across fairly often
is being confronted by a muggle while caching. Apart from using
your GPS as a cell-phone you may find an instantaneous need to make
up an excuse (or little white lie so to speak) to help explain Why
we are doing What we are doing at the particular spot in Which we
are doing it without divulging the secret of the Geocache.
My stand-by lame excuse is that "I lost something small
and personal (depending where I am this item may differ.... a
loonie, a retainer, a pocket-knife, etc.) and don't really need any
assistance, and thank you very much for offering to help."
(Now, if you could ever so kindly please buzz off and allow me look
for this confounded cache in peace)
***** Although it is not a requirement to log the cache it would
be nice to add the following *****
Can you relate a story from your geocaching experiences where you
had to fib, fabricate, prevaricate, mislead, falsify or perambulate
verbosely some fictitious tale to some passer-by who may have
questioned you, evil-eyed you, withdrew uncomfortably to inform the
authorities, etc. and yet departed, apparently satisfied by your
'informative dissertation', from your company.
(just tell us your best geocaching 'fib'!)
My caches will
rarely have you move anything more than leaf litter or a single
cover item to be found. In this case, nothing need be moved, just
grab it. If you have to start Running through yards and hopping
fences or pulling up landscape fabric and digging holes, chipping
out pieces of cinder block, or ripping planks from fencing then you
are looking in the wrong area.
Be a responsible Geocacher, replace
what you have moved and please 'Leave No
Trace'. |
