[GeoStL] Re: NOT NGR: We Didn't Make the Survey
- From: "tnsl" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:10:25 -0500
I think she must have been getting used to the answers by GEE o cachers. She
asked me, "Don't you people ever stay home?" According to her we have been in
about 20 of the 38 in the last year -- and not all for geocaching. Some didn't
seem to make the survey -- Sioux Passage, Bissell House and Spanish Lake. She
said we had been to 20 parks in the last year. That surprised me.
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Greene
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:52 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NOT NGR: We Didn't Make the Survey
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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