Boxing when you really shouldn't be
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Started on 2004-11-03
Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: bindlestiff_boxer (bindlestiff_boxer@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2004-11-03 05:11:11 UTC
Situation: (1) Community Health Nurse with a way extra long lunch
because one of the scheduled patient visits was cancelled. (2) A
known letterbox within 25 minutes of the vicinity of my last patient
home and (3) Clue sheets from the last boxing trip still laying on
the back seat, but no backpack with supplies (ie: compass)
I knew I shouldn't really try it. Think of the potential problems!
I still had patients to see in the afternoon.
Did I let reason and logic stop me? Oh, no ... not at all.
So I ask you to imagine the scene. There I was roaming around in
the woods, in my work clothes ... holding a clue sheet with multiple
compass bearings, trying to identify some (ANY!) of the few
landmarks given in the clues and trying to maintain the ability to
finish seeing the rest of my afternoon patients in reasonably
presentable professional attire.
Well, I was successful and DID find the box and didn't mess up my
work clothes too much. (Good thing I keep wipes my van though ..
those sneakers REALLY needed some attention.) grin
Any other "guilty" parties want to confess the details of your
boxing-when-you-really-shouldn't-be experience?
Enjoy!
---Bindle Babe
Re: Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: cahillymom (acahilly@prodigy.net) |
Date: 2004-11-03 13:42:28 UTC
My logical mind insists that modern nurse clothes are probably
scrubs in any color and comfy shoes, but part of me really wants to
see you in old-fashioned whites (dress, chunky shoes, stockings, and
of course the CAP!) trying to stay pristine in the woods.
Aud
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "bindlestiff_boxer"
>
> Situation: (1) Community Health Nurse with a way extra long lunch
> because one of the scheduled patient visits was cancelled. (2) A
> known letterbox within 25 minutes of the vicinity of my last
patient
> home and (3) Clue sheets from the last boxing trip still laying on
> the back seat, but no backpack with supplies (ie: compass)
>
> I knew I shouldn't really try it. Think of the potential
problems!
> I still had patients to see in the afternoon.
>
> Did I let reason and logic stop me? Oh, no ... not at all.
>
> So I ask you to imagine the scene. There I was roaming around in
> the woods, in my work clothes ... holding a clue sheet with
multiple
> compass bearings, trying to identify some (ANY!) of the few
> landmarks given in the clues and trying to maintain the ability to
> finish seeing the rest of my afternoon patients in reasonably
> presentable professional attire.
>
> Well, I was successful and DID find the box and didn't mess up my
> work clothes too much. (Good thing I keep wipes my van though ..
> those sneakers REALLY needed some attention.) grin
>
> Any other "guilty" parties want to confess the details of your
> boxing-when-you-really-shouldn't-be experience?
>
> Enjoy!
> ---Bindle Babe
Re: Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: Timbertoes (toomey@genevaonline.com) |
Date: 2004-11-03 17:48:05 UTC
Situation: 1) Kids at the sitters to be picked up in 25 minutes; 2)
series of letterboxes in a park sort of on the way to the sitters; 3)
need to change out of dress clothes first. Figured I could at least
find ONE of the boxes before I had to get the kids...
Actuality: Changed clothes in the car in the park in record time.
20 minutes left. Realized I was in the wrong section of the park, so
drove to the next area. Ignored strange-looking men fishing from the
bank and took off (alone) into the woods on what I thought was the
correct path. 15 minutes later realized that it was the wrong path
since none of the landmarks showed up. Decided to turn around and
head back, but couldn't just give up. Checked out several tree
trunks on the way back anyhow. Am now 10 minutes late - called the
sitter from the car and told her "something came up" and I'd be a
little late. Pulled in to her drive half an hour late which cost me
extra and no new stamp to show for it.
Would I do it again? Without the creepy-looking men, probably.
Timbertoes
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "bindlestiff_boxer"
>
> Situation: (1) Community Health Nurse with a way extra long lunch
> because one of the scheduled patient visits was cancelled. (2) A
> known letterbox within 25 minutes of the vicinity of my last
patient
> home and (3) Clue sheets from the last boxing trip still laying on
> the back seat, but no backpack with supplies (ie: compass)
>
> I knew I shouldn't really try it. Think of the potential problems!
> I still had patients to see in the afternoon.
>
> Did I let reason and logic stop me? Oh, no ... not at all.
>
> So I ask you to imagine the scene. There I was roaming around in
> the woods, in my work clothes ... holding a clue sheet with
multiple
> compass bearings, trying to identify some (ANY!) of the few
> landmarks given in the clues and trying to maintain the ability to
> finish seeing the rest of my afternoon patients in reasonably
> presentable professional attire.
>
> Well, I was successful and DID find the box and didn't mess up my
> work clothes too much. (Good thing I keep wipes my van though ..
> those sneakers REALLY needed some attention.) grin
>
> Any other "guilty" parties want to confess the details of your
> boxing-when-you-really-shouldn't-be experience?
>
> Enjoy!
> ---Bindle Babe
Re: Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: Doglvrs (doglvrs_4@msn.com) |
Date: 2004-11-03 19:05:35 UTC
-old-fashioned whites (dress, chunky shoes, stockings, and
of course the CAP!-
Yeah! I want to see BindleBabe in this! ; ) (big grin!!)
Doglvrs
Re: Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: speedsquare_lbxr (ruhlette@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2004-11-03 21:24:26 UTC
OK - I'll fess up - I went out after a short workday today in my workclothes - but I should
not have been wearing old clogs. You can really twist an ankle on the gravel, rooted trails.
Had my backpack of supplies, walking stick and camera (decoy) - I didn't realize there are
so many dog walkers in the early afternoon. Found 2 of 2; a happy day.
speedsquare, who's not supposed to box alone
Re: Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: Lisa (limurme@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2004-11-03 21:42:26 UTC
Situation: (1) Letterboxing obsessed mom searches in vain for
Legerdemaine box for an hour 2) A known letterbox is 1/2 a mile hike
away (3) 3 year old needs to be picked up from preschool in 25
minutes. Can mom hike 1/2 a mile, find the box, stamp in and hike back
to the car in time to drive the 10 minutes to the preschool? We won't
know unless we try!
Lisa
PS I was only 5 minutes late to pick him up AND I found the other box
no problem.
Re: Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: cadenza74 (cadenza74@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2004-11-05 04:50:41 UTC
>
> Any other "guilty" parties want to confess the details of your
> boxing-when-you-really-shouldn't-be experience?
Would you believe I have letterboxed in a silk skirt suit and heels?
I had a long lunch break while I was in Salt Lake City for a business
conference. The hotel we were at was just up the street from two
letterboxes. How could I resist?
I think the stranger looking one was in Salmon, ID. I planted
letterboxes while I was there on business also. Salmon is a small
town in Idaho's central mountains. It is the ending stop for many
major rafting trips. I was again in my work skirt (one that was at
least a little less formal than the SLC one) and went exploring in
the mountains to plant some boxes. Even though my outfit was more
casual, I stuck out like a sore thumb, but I couldn't not get out and
box. I ask again-how could I resist?
Cadenza
Re: [LbNA] Re: Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: (cminpinlover@aol.com) |
Date: 2004-11-05 10:04:31 UTC-05:00
We also stuck out like sore thumbs on our first venture letterboxing. It was
this past Sunday, Halloween, we found our first of two microboxes without any
problems,no one was in sight and went to the next location where a huge bike
race was going on! We were trying to figure out our compass, trees without
leaves and trying to act nonchalant. Needless to say we failed on the second box,
but it hooked us on the hobby and we're heading out again this weekend in our
area. Wayne, Lynn and Mickey in Charlton, NY
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this past Sunday, Halloween, we found our first of two microboxes without any
problems,no one was in sight and went to the next location where a huge bike
race was going on! We were trying to figure out our compass, trees without
leaves and trying to act nonchalant. Needless to say we failed on the second box,
but it hooked us on the hobby and we're heading out again this weekend in our
area. Wayne, Lynn and Mickey in Charlton, NY
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Re: Boxing when you really shouldn't be
From: Kristin Anderson (kanderson@american-community.com) |
Date: 2004-11-08 13:18:14 UTC
Week before last I had to travel 7.5 hours from my home to see a very
specialized doctor. I got to town about an hour early, so of course
I headed off into the woods in search of a letterbox. Not only was
it warmer at my destination than it had been at home, i.e. I was
overdressed - but it started raining on me. I showed up at the
doctor's office drenched with sweat and rain - I'm afraid they
thought I was having odd symptoms!