Read the Comic
Yes, It's the comic I sent into PinPoint that has now been published!
For those who own geocaches one the most difficult things can be laboring over the information you put into a cache page only to have it completely ignored. So many times if the geocacher would just Read The Cache Page, all would become clear. I actually had a cache that the posted coordinates did take you to the middle of a reservoir. It was a puzzle cache, and yes, I did get a few notes about it.
As a cache owner we do try to help out, especially new cachers as they learn the hobby. After a while it can get frustrating. I have one cache that I continue to get “Needs Maintenance” logs or grumbly DNF logs from new cachers. It’s a Lamp Post Cache. As cache owners there is a point where we do ignore or at least put off checking on a cache once we see the experience level of the person who posted the log. On an LPC? If you have fewer than 100 finds I’ll probably let it go until I’m in the neighborhood. Now with the advent of Adventure Lab Multiple Choice Art all over the place, I may have to make that number higher. I want to help out but, my educational philosophy has always leaned towards constructivist so if I tell you the answer, you really won’t learn anything or at least remember it.
My Geek Odyssey is published regularly now in PinPoint and FTF Geocacher Magazines and everyone once in a while here. Note, that I don’t plan on recycling strips, so each magazine will get something different unless I can’t think of anything, or I think it is a really funny idea.
Louder for those in the back!!
I have an AL at the Indianapolis Airport where the coords take you RIGHT to the sign with the answer. But because people jump once the "answer" button lights up, they get frustrated and don't follow the arrow (another 20ish feet) -- then log a "cannot complete this stage" and it burns my britches when they do!
For most of us there is an everyday corollary: "read the instructions." Like some caches, difficult to do. But after your 3rd trip to the hardware store or a desparate search for something called "instruction manual," you just struggle forward.
I think that's what Bruce is driving at here! And congratulations on being published!