The ELTC are also a quick response team to score FTF honors on new hides. Their training in lunch time cache finds makes them ideal searchers for newly posted caches and they have racked up an amazing number of FTFs. They employ stealth techniques of epic proportions, using props to go unnoticed by Muggles. They use the standard "talking on the cell phone" rouse for looking for the cache. One ELTC used a fishing pole to blend in while he hid a cache on a lake shore break wall. Another took her dog with her and pretended to be cleaning up after the dog while rehiding a cache. One of the ELTC pretended to be an old grumpy guy cleaning up trash in a local park to go unnoticed. The stories are myriad. The motto of the ELTC is, "If you hide it, we will find it; quickly, it the middle of the day, and without anyone noticing." All you have to do to do to become a member is to have found a cache in the Euclid area while out and about during lunch time hours and proclaim, "I am a ELTC!"
I thought I was going to hang up the Shameless series until next winter, but I had an idea for a new hiding technique and needed a new color paint. So I went to the store to get the paint and on the way to the check out I saw magnetic key cases for 99 cents. I thought, "Who knows when you might see a spot to hide one of these with this color." So I grabbed two. The next day on my way to work I saw a spot and couldn't resist. I hope you understand.