--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "grumpygrinchy" wrote:
>
What are some of your most
> challenging finds, where discretion is concerned, and how did you
> handle them?
>
Last year, I was at Princess Lea's 'Where Buffalo Roam' box, helping
her out by doing a little maintenance (adding logbook pages).
Suddenly 5 teenage boys rode in on bicycles, and proceeded to light
up cigarettes & talk RIGHT THERE! Talk continued on many subjects...
and many cigarettes...

I waited and waited, and waitied... but got impatient. Then I
realized all the classes I took in improvisational theater in
college could be handy. I whipped out my logbook and pen, and
suddenly stepped into the role of a botanist studying small plant
forms in that area. I pretended to make notes, look at leaves, make
little sketches, and scrutinized the place where the highly rare and
tiny moss-like plant, 'buffalonias roamus' grows.

The boys quickly became accustomed to me poking around, and it was a
piece of cake to replace the letterbox, without notice.

I've used similar tactics at other locations -- it can work.

Paul in SF

--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "grumpygrinchy" wrote:
>
> Mim's story of retrieving then rehiding the Doggie box in SF
brings up
> a potentially interesting thread. What are some of your most
> challenging finds, where discretion is concerned, and how did you
> handle them?
>
> A few days ago Grumpy was under a bridge looking for a box. Three
> fisherman walked under the bridge as he was searching and cast
their
> lines into the water. He climbed the bank giving up the search.
We
> have had to wait out lots of folks around boxes, then usually just
go
> for the retrieve, tying shoes, "practicing" with our compasses, or
> just bluffing our way through. We did skip a box last week when
we
> found a student and his computer working on a bench under which a
box
> was hidden. We left for half an hour and he was still there when
we
> walked by again. The sacrifices we make for education!!! :-)
>
> Grumpy Grinch
>
If you sat on the bench next to him and started talking to yourself
in very agitated tones you would have had the bench to yourself in
short order. That is of course unless he started doing the same. How
about pulling out your bible and reading passages aloud?

Don

I usually opt for the pretending-to-birdwatch approach. That helps me
feel inconspicuous when I've got boxes, books and stamp pads falling
off my lap. If I notice someone coming along, I open up the
Peterson's Guide and look perplexed.

I can never figure how it is that someone *always* strolls by me just
as I'm fumbling around with the stamping. I try to act as if this is
a normal hiking activity, that the grandeur of the setting has
inspired me to do a little rubber stamping, but I find this pretty
laughable. I figure that most people don't really care what I'm up
to. Or they think I'm some obsessive scrapbooker, and steer clear of
my sad behavior.

I try not to look too guilty, or think about stashing drugs or state
secrets while I'm re-hiding boxes.

Does any of this make any sense? I'm fighting off a flu, and am not
feeling particularly lucid.

Lisascenic

You know Grumpy, this would be a good Topic of the Week for the
Newboxers list if you wanted suggest it to the Pepes

-----Original Message-----
From: LbNCA@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LbNCA@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Lisa Lazar
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:06 PM
To: LbNCA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNCA] Re: Discretion Challenges

I usually opt for the pretending-to-birdwatch approach. That helps me
feel inconspicuous when I've got boxes, books and stamp pads falling
off my lap. If I notice someone coming along, I open up the
Peterson's Guide and look perplexed.

I can never figure how it is that someone *always* strolls by me just
as I'm fumbling around with the stamping. I try to act as if this is
a normal hiking activity, that the grandeur of the setting has
inspired me to do a little rubber stamping, but I find this pretty
laughable. I figure that most people don't really care what I'm up
to. Or they think I'm some obsessive scrapbooker, and steer clear of
my sad behavior.

I try not to look too guilty, or think about stashing drugs or state
secrets while I'm re-hiding boxes.

Does any of this make any sense? I'm fighting off a flu, and am not
feeling particularly lucid.

Lisascenic









Yahoo! Groups Links

Hey Black Cavalier, Please feel free to make the suggestion to the
Pepes. We've never looked at the Newboxers list. Guess that explains
a lot... :-)

Grumpy Grinch

--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "Hedglin, Nils A"
wrote:
>
> You know Grumpy, this would be a good Topic of the Week for the
> Newboxers list if you wanted suggest it to the Pepes

So now the truth is out: Grumpy Grinch is chutzpah challenged...


> If you sat on the bench next to him and started talking to yourself
> in very agitated tones you would have had the bench to yourself in
> short order. That is of course unless he started doing the same. How
> about pulling out your bible and reading passages aloud?
>
> Don
>

chutzpah challenged...

Now, how does one pronounce that, if we follow the gg's rule of
alliterations?

Lisascenic