You spend weeks, months, designing, fabricating and testing a new original geocache. Negotiate permission from landowner. Write and re-write the description to make it interesting and entertaining. Spend real money on components.
Finally it’s published.
And then someone logs it with “TFTC!”
TFTC? Is that the best you can do?
This is a rudeness much the same as having a slap-up meal at a restuarant, then flipping the Chef a dollar with a lordly “Here’s a little something for your trouble My Good Man,” and walking out.
Why do people do this? I have wondered about it and suggest the following reasons/excuses:
- I’m new to this game, isn’t that what you are supposed to do?
- My phone keeps corrugating my spooling.
- Look, I’m only here for the numbers, I’ve wasted far too much time on this already. I gotta log ten caches a day for a year or I will die! (’Tis the Witch's Curse!)
- Why should I inflate your ego any more, you smart-arse?
- Can’t be bothered.
Feel free to add yours.
Well, here’s a TFTC worthy cache. Bog standard and in a real rubbish location. Knock yourself out! Log it with a TFTC Or as a daring variant, TFTH
You will of course need to bring your own pen or pencil.
Finally, here's a Tip from the Geocaching.com Webpage Help File: Write more than TFTC. A couple of sentences show the cache owner you appreciate the time and effort it takes to create a cache.
"Have a Nice Day!"