[GeoStL] Re: NOT NGR: We Didn't Make the Survey
- From: "Jim Greene" <jimsgreene@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:52:09 -0500
I bet I was the first one to say GEE O-Caching, she had no idea what I was
talking about. I tried to explain, but ended up just saying that I hiked &
walked the dog in each of them. She went through the entire list of parks, I
have been in all but 3 I think. I was wondering if she thought I was making
it up, she started out asking about Law-me-ear, , I was there yesterday, and
then she asked about Buder, where I had been today. She even asked me to let
her know about how to pronounce some of the other names, like Fort Bell
Fountain. I was nice, and truthful, but I still thinks she was wondering
about if I'd really been to all of them.
Strider
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:38 PM, tnsl <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So .. tonight I'm in the middle of q-ing the ribs outside and chopping
> up the veggies inside (obligatory food reference) when the phone rings. I
> answer. She's not selling something; she's taking a survey on the usage of
> St. Louis County Parks. Normally, I would have said I didn't have time, but
> it IS for the Parks so I'll chat.
>
> Twenty minutes and an intense lesson on geocaching later I was finished
> with the survey.
>
> The questions were about what parks we use, what we use them for and of
> course, how often. She offered a list of park uses -- everything from using
> the playground to dog walking to driving through to walking to sledding to
> "other". I can't remember what park she first listed but I answered,
> "Playground and Geocaching.. is that other?" Well .. you would have thought
> I had told this woman I had my ears in my eyeballs. She said, "Geeee O
> caching? Honey, just what in the WORLD is geocaching? Is really a for-real
> thing? You're about the 5th person who has said that." She then went on to
> say, "The first person that told me they was geocaching in the park I
> thought he was just making things up to mess with me. I wasn't sure what the
> second person was saying, but along about the 3rd or 4th I got to thinking
> that this is something for real. Just .. what IS this geocaching? This some
> kind of new fad or something to do in those parks?"
>
> I have to wonder if the St. Louis County Parks Department creates their
> own surveys. Surely by now "WE" would have made the survey, wouldn't you
> think?
>
> Nancy
>
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