Whoops! Traditional Cache
Nurse Nanna: It's time to archive this one. I hope to put a new one out nearby and put this one to bed to avoid a permanent geo-trail from developing.
Thank you for all the shared stories! It's so nice to see how we can laugh at our own mistakes and silly escapades as we cache and enjoy the outdoor environment.
Nurse Nanna
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Regular, full sized cache in a popular and well loved Chelsea Park with playground equipment and the heavily decorated painted rock. Lots of places to sit and relax and enjoy an ice cream with the kids. Can also be a fairly quick grab for those times when your cache addiction is acting up.
Admit it!
Caching is not an exact science. Coords might be way off. Parking may be miles from where you expect it to be. The most direct route may surprise you with a stream, a pond or even a building between you and that desired hidden treat. You may find that you have forgotten your GPSr at the last cache, or perhaps the keys are sitting there in plain view...just inside that locked car door!
I am not one to point fingers...my mistakes have become rather....shall we say, um, expected? Classical Nurse Nanna moments. There are so many of them that I can't even figure out which one to offer as an example.
Let me give you a taste of what has happened to me. And mind you, I don't go looking for these crazy things.....they just happen. As recently as last week I had a woman who thought that my waving my arms in the air trying to reach a tall cache, was my attempt at hailing a bus! I've been stopped by the police at least twice because I appeared confused with maps all over the dash and 2 GPSr's that I did not believe and have had an officer stop to tell me where all the local caches were hidden. I spent nearly 30 minutes pacing around in sheer panic over locking my keys and cell phone in the car, only to discover the passenger window wide open. I've been convinced the car was stolen, lost my way around a stream, and fallen into them more times than I can count. I've hiked an hour and crawled across two streams only to find the cache 300 feet from the vehicle and on flat land right next to the parking lot. Driving the wrong way down a drive through only happened once...but I still can't talk about it without falling apart in guffaws. And yes...I once cleared 12 inches of snow out of an 12 foot fountain, on my hands and knees in downtown Traverse City on a Saturday evening.
Please allow me to add that many of these things occurred while accompanied by other cachers, and sometimes they even admit their share of the Whoops moments.
Though we are not allowed ALR's (additional logging requirements), it would still be fun to hear some of your favorite moments, so please share some of your Whoopsies in your logs for the rest of us to enjoy!
Ok folks, it is Confession time. Have fun and enjoy a laugh at yourself!
Congratulations Team RedThumb on your first ever FTF!
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