Sandi -

That's hilarious!

One of mine was in a stump in an open park - no reason for anyone to happen
into it, digging past the bark and the slate, but apparently many did.
Turns out there was a geocache really close by. However, this box went
missing once. The person that took it sent back one of my postcards saying
that they read the info about letterboxing, they might go put it back.
Another postcard came in the next day, dated later from that box. So they
did, I guess.

A few months later, I went to pull it as the Lyndon City Fair was happening
and I was concerned about people happening in on the box. An email had just
come in from the geocacher asking if I had brought the stump in the park
because she couldn't find a stump. That's a funny sight in my head. The
electrical tent was there, next to the lb placement. No stump! No signs of
a stump ever having been there. I'm in the middle of laughing, pulling the
2 other "you're close" film canisters and realized that the letterbox was on
the other side of the tree, with 4 twigs across the fairly large container.
Looking at the box was much like looking through open venetian blinds,
visible as can be. The funny thing is that the box had been there for a
while, as evidenced by lbers and geocachers signing in.

Gotta love it.

MoWizLiz



-------Original Message-------

From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:16:30 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Poorly Rehidden Boxes - "are you ready to listen"

I agree that there are lots of things that can contribute to a box
being poorly rehidden...but I had an experience recently that was so
bizarre I wonder if it's ever happened before:

I have a box hidden in a fairly secluded spot in a public garden. In
another area of the garden is an Asian pond with a stone pagoda beside it. I
was enjoying the pond recently when I noticed what looked like a Ziploc bag
stuffed inside the pagoda. I was excited because I was pretty sure it was a
letterbox, but I was dismayed at the openness of the hiding place - it was
in plain sight. Imagine my surprise when I pulled it out and discovered it
was my ownletterbox! The last few entries in the logbook are hand-written
and unsigned...apparently a muggle found it and misinterpreted my
instructions to "re-hide it well" to mean "hide it somewhere else." What are
the odds that I would be the first to find it in it's new spot?? Needless to
say, I've changed my instructions to hopefully be more clear.

Sandi
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