The name of a nearby establishment is intended to communicate that it proffers beauty supplies, or "beauty booty", to area shoppers . More than likely it does so quite effectively - unless one happens to be have grown up somewhere in south-central Africa. The cache owner knows two people who live within about a mile of this business that are more likely to interpret the name in a much different way.
There are folk in the world that take professional interest in the stuff of booties - namely, those that practice Scatology. Now, if the reader thinks that this cache or description is going to get gross, rest assured it will not. On the contrary, it may evoke a good laugh today, and maybe even a small one when you happen to pass by some other day down the road.
Seeing the construction of a new building on the south side of Longview can evoke a certain amount of interest as we residents are more likely to see old buildings than new ones. It happens that signage is the last thing to go up - perhaps to develop the curiosity into saleable interest. In any event, one day the cache owner drove by after the business had been "labeled", and what followed surely qualified as a genuine double-take. Now it wouldn't probably be right to say that what followed was a loud crash into the building, or a nearby telephone pole, but it was a honest-to-goodness double-take nonetheless.
It is truly amazing what the human brain stores away for future reference or for some other obscure purpose. Some of these things are immediately useful; others are less practical. The spectrum of memories is wide and may proffer warm fuzzies, encouragement, love, happiness, etc. There are darker memories that lay buried. Some of these cripple and maim, but not all are so dark. Some of them are simply waiting for an opportunity to generate good humor.
It so happens that the 1970's spawned a number children in the areas surrounding Choma, Zambia and Bulawayo, Rhodesia that were led to believe that faeces were more appropriately named "chong". When you see the sign the cache owner saw, it may not be very hard to imagine what images might arise in the mind of one so fortunate enough to have this particular youthful imprinting.
This is not something that is going to be easy to prove. The term was perhaps localized slang as internet sites that specialize in listing the various names for poo do not list this alleged synonym. If pressed, the cache owner could name names of a few potential witnesses scattered far and wide. One might also attempt a poll of the international students that attend the neighboring university, but this is not likely to be encouraged by the institution.
And that, my friends, is the rest of the story "behind" this cache. May laughter fill your vehicle every time you pass this cache.
This cache is not wheelchair accessible, and is likely to be difficult for children to retrieve without help. The container holds only a log, so bring your own pen.
See the included waypoints for two parking options.
- The parking area accessible from Mobberly Avenue allows the closest access to the cache site and provides an opportunity to see the signage that the description refers to.
- A small paved area off of Green Street also serves as suitable parking. It used to serve as a parking spot in front of a building that is no longer present.
jd283, congratulations on the FTF.