Do you have a problem with geocaching?
Only you can answer that question for yourself. However, taking
the following quiz may help to put your relationship to geocaching
in perspective.
If you end up answering "yes" to five or more questions, you may
want to take a good look at how your life is affected by
geocaching. There is help out there - all you have to do is take
the first step……………
1. Has geocaching ever interfered with work or school?
2. Do you return from lunch with twigs in your hair?
3. Are you called Caroline?
4. Do you have irrational reactions when you see the FTF slot has
gone to Gaz, Briggs, BigLad or Heather W?
5. Do you drive miles out of your way on a journey just to add one
more cache to your total?
6. Do you get into trouble because of geocaching?
7. Do you carry a little torch, walking boots, an extra pair of
socks and 6 AA batteries in the car?
8. Do you look at every hollow object as a potential cache
container or hide?
9. Have you ever run out of the house in sandals and pyjamas to
attempt a FTF on a winter night?
10. Do you check geocaching.com web site more than once a
day?
11. Have you have considered applying for a job with MI5 because of
your experience with decryption and satellite imagery?
12. When asked to provide directions, you think in terms of cache
locations?
13. Do you have conversations with an imaginary friend on your
Garmin?
14. Do your party invitations feature a Difficulty / Terrain
rating?
15. Do you get distracted watching films because you keep scanning
the background scenery, thinking, “That’d be a GREAT
place for a cache!”
16. Do you have one whole shelf in the kitchen cupboards filled
with swaps, containers and other caching paraphernalia?
17. Do you plan your family holidays around geocaching hot
spots?
18. Have you tried to give up geocaching and failed?
19. Have you ever put your dependants in care for the day and gone
caching instead
20. Do you crave geocaching as soon as you wake up?
21. Do you crave geocaching at a definite time of day?
22. Do you lie to others about how often you partake in
geocaching?
23. Have you got into financial difficulties because of
geocaching?
24. Do you often wish people would just mind their own business
about you and geocaching?
25. Do you go to bed and lie awake if a new cache is 'out
there'?
Did you answer yes to five or more questions? Go on, admit it. The
first step to recovery is admitting you have a
problem……...
Your goal is to NOT FIND THIS CACHE.
We all know that there are those among us (and you know who you
are) who, when they look at the page showing their 20 nearest
caches, see nothing but a perfect page full of finds. Then that new
cache comes along and spoils your pristine page. It sits there at
the top of the list. Taunting you. Staring at you like a giant
unblinking eye.
It calls out to you "Fiiind meeee..." You comply, even though
it’s 5 miles away, it’s 11.30pm, it’s pouring
down and you have to be up early to attend a meeting. If you're
lucky, you beat Heather W to the FTF and then race back to log it
and remove it from your top 20 list.
The question is, how strong are you? Can you resist searching out
this cache? Show the world how strong you are. You can stop
geocaching anytime you want. Really you can.
"Fiiind meeee..."
To post a find here please include a reason why you are NOT hooked
on caching . Let's have fun with this and see how good the excuses
are. We all know we're not addicted don't we?