It's labour day weekend! That means school is just around the corner. And that means....pop-quiz!! Now stop groaning, this should be pretty easy. No peeking at your neighbours papers, and no talking! If you need help you can always ask. Remember, there are no stupid questions!
Plug your answers into this equation: N43 20.ABC W 79 49.DEF
Pencils ready? Begin!
A) You know you are hooked on caching when you open your car trunk and.......
- it is empty and vacuumed. A=1
- It is almost empty, except for the booster cables and maybe the odd grocery receipt. A=2
- There are a few things in there, like booster cables, shopping bags, an umbrella. A=5
- Your trunk has the following items: Chest waders, rubber boots, a three-step ladder. an assortment of poles in differing lengths, a dollar store grabby-thing, cammo duct-tape, magnets, a few lock 'n lock containers, rain gear, flash light. And yet still enough room that you can crawl in if you need a really dark place to check out some UV Pen writing. A=9
B) You know you like caching when you understand which of the following abbreviations?
- Ca, Mg, Fe, Au.....B=3
- PRN, BID, QID, QHS....B=9
- PE, HTN, COPD, OA....B=1
- TNLN, SL, TFTC!....B=5
C) You know you like the online requirement of Geocaching.com when.....
- You like wearing plaid shirts and whistling the "lumberjack" song by Monty Python. C=5
- Your enjoy chopping wood for a living. C=0
- your favourite new toy is a chainsaw. C=6
- You spend some of your down time at home on the computer writing amusing short stories about how you spent the previous hour(s) climbing up and down the escarpment and pretending to tie your shoes C=9
D) You Know you may love to cache, when on your days off.....
- You clean your house from top to bottom, then start on the yard work. D=2
- You sleep in late, then get up and watch TV for the rest of the dayD=9
- You have a Tee time scheduled for every day off, and you could fit in at least two rounds of golf a day if you could afford it.D=4
- You end up wandering around beautiful places that you never would have gone to on your own.You occasionally meet other people doing the same thing, and you always have interesting, satisfying conversations with these complete strangers. D=0
E) You know that caching has become a bit of an obsession when, while on Vacation....
- You spend your day relaxing, drinking mojitoes on the beach E=3
- You plan a staycation and get all your house in order and clear up the honey-do list E=4
- you accept all the overtime call-in shifts you can E=0
- You plan it so that you can arrive in Seattle, Washington on a Wednesday between 2 and 3pm so that you can tour Groundspeak HQ. The previous day you had made a trek into an area around Portland, Oregon just to view a plaque on the ground. And you are super excited about both these things!! E=7
F) You know that you are enjoying caching when....
- You no longer want to share your vacation shots with your muggle friends because most of the good pictures have trackable toy hampsters and babushkas and dog-bone doggy bag containers in them. F=3
- You have picked the following items out of your hair more than once: leaves, sticks, spider-webs, snails,"I'm not sure what that was", and mayflies. F=9
- You like to spend time climbing up trees, rooting around roots, looking under boardwalks and creeping around large culverts looking for micro containers that come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. F=4
- All of the Above F=5
Times UP!
Now go find the cache!