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team mx
15th August 2012, 11:10 AM
My favourite caching moment
I'd unsuccessfully looked for a cache in a local park a few times. on this day I was walking too and fro trying to see something anything magnetic on a stone statue.

Totally lost in my own little world I was brought back to reality by a teenage girl asking "if I was ok"
"err yes im fine thank you"
"are you sure you don't need a doctor, ambulance or anyone"
I thanked her for caring for a total stranger and said "suddenly the world seemed a nicer place".

I got out of there ASAP and returned the next day and found the little blighter.

mollyjak
15th August 2012, 10:20 PM
LOL but nice to know someone noticed:) as you could have needed help (beside finding the cache LOL)

Gengatron
1st April 2017, 05:13 PM
I've had several funny looks before, but nobody has ever come up to me to ask if I was ok. It warms my heart to see that there are still people who care about others in this world.

Dorsetgal
27th August 2020, 02:37 AM
I get asked if I’m ok reasonably often, but I am using a wheelchair.
I recall one occasion, early in my caching career, I was in Salzburg, looking for what I expected to be a fake but or bolt on a metal bridge comprising of hundreds of nuts and bolts. On my first attempt several people asked if I was ok, but in German and broken English. One person even offered me food for GeoDog! Worried that I was attracting too much attention; girl using wheelchair with dog, stopped in the middle of one of the main river bridges in town!
I went back the following day and pretty soon after I arrived the Austrian equivalent of the Samaritans arrived. I explained but they didn’t look convinced and wanted me to go with them! I beat a hasty retreat and never did find that cache!

border caz
2nd September 2020, 11:34 AM
Back in 2013 I was caching in Oxford with my old geodog, Jazz. I got a few buns from a baker and couldn't find a bench with any room on so sat on some steps for us to have a rest and eat buns. A lady came up to me and asked if I needed any help, she had mistaken Jazz for a Guide Dog - he was partially blind and was wearing his orange bandana with "Caution Blind Dog" on it, she thought it was me that had no sight and that I had fallen.