> I'm sure others have experienced similar Laws, so let's
> hear some of them. Maybe we can compile a list.

Doing your best to be discrete while searching for a letterbox at a
seaside location, you are observed by bored folks living in an RV at
the beach. Bored folks want to liven things up a bit, and call the
police to report a possibly under-the-influence and/or irrational
person along the beach. The local gendarmes arrive and you are
subjected to many tests to determine your state of mind, your license
and registration are confiscated so that they can look you up in the
bad guy database, and they threaten to call the Department of Social
Services to take away my three children who were letterboxing with me.

In all this melee, I dropped my letterboxing bag, containing log and
stamp, so I couldn't even prove what I was doing (not that I wanted
to give them the satisfaction anyway).

Since they were unable to determine that anything was wrong with me,
they finally let me go, but a state trooper follows me all the way
home. As in to my driveway.

And, yes, I did recover my letterboxing bag, under *great* stealth, a
day later.

Warrior Woman

Sounds like a really bad Monday.

Warrior Woman wrote:
> I'm sure others have experienced similar Laws, so let's
> hear some of them. Maybe we can compile a list.

Doing your best to be discrete while searching for a letterbox at a
seaside location, you are observed by bored folks living in an RV at
the beach. Bored folks want to liven things up a bit, and call the
police to report a possibly under-the-influence and/or irrational
person along the beach. The local gendarmes arrive and you are
subjected to many tests to determine your state of mind, your license
and registration are confiscated so that they can look you up in the
bad guy database, and they threaten to call the Department of Social
Services to take away my three children who were letterboxing with me.

In all this melee, I dropped my letterboxing bag, containing log and
stamp, so I couldn't even prove what I was doing (not that I wanted
to give them the satisfaction anyway).

Since they were unable to determine that anything was wrong with me,
they finally let me go, but a state trooper follows me all the way
home. As in to my driveway.

And, yes, I did recover my letterboxing bag, under *great* stealth, a
day later.

Warrior Woman




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It rains. It seems as of late that whenever Deedle & I both finally have an afternoon free at the same time that we can spend letterboxing, it rains. When we went to Michigan this past August for a friend's wedding and were doing some letterboxing on the way out from Cleveland, there was no rain in Michigan's forecast. The skies were clear. We got to our first destination, put on our hiking boots, pulled on our backpacks, unfolded the clues and then woosh, rain. We finally bought ourselves rainjackets that fold up into themselves to shove in the backpacks, and a small umbrella for stamping in, since we've learned it's not just coincidence :)

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More specifically, a downpour starts the exact moment you are as
physically far from the car as you can get. I had *just* found Tom's
Letterbox in Syracuse when I was caught in a downpour. By the time I
had hiked the half-mile back to the truck, I looked like a drowned
river rat!
-- Dagonell the Pirate

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Doodle & Deedle Bug
wrote:
> It rains. It seems as of late that whenever Deedle & I both finally
have an afternoon free at the same time that we can spend
letterboxing, it rains. When we went to Michigan this past August for
a friend's wedding and were doing some letterboxing on the way out
from Cleveland, there was no rain in Michigan's forecast. The skies
were clear. We got to our first destination, put on our hiking boots,
pulled on our backpacks, unfolded the clues and then woosh, rain. We
finally bought ourselves rainjackets that fold up into themselves to
shove in the backpacks, and a small umbrella for stamping in, since
we've learned it's not just coincidence :)
>
> Doodle Bug.
>
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> www.geocities.com/doodle_n_deedle
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And don't forget as you are standing in the 40 degree pouring rain in the blowing wind that the forecast was for sunny skies with a high of 75 degrees.

-Kim (Rustypuff)


>
> From: "dagonell2001"
> Date: 2004/10/19 Tue PM 12:52:55 EDT
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [LbNA] Murpheys Laws Of Letterboxing
>
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You will drop the inkpad on the trail ... and it will land ink side
down in the dirt, leaf litter, etc.

Enjoy!
---Bindle Babe

"Silver Eagle" wrote:
> It seems lately when I have been letterboxing I have
> fallen victim to a form of Murpheys Law (anything that
> can go wrong, will). I call it Murpheys Law Of
> Letterboxing #1, which states: No matter how remote
> a letterboxing site is, or what time of day it is, there
> will be non-boxers around.