Sometimes it's hard to tell......
Quote:
Originally Posted by WhereRWe?
........But most of the time they're abused, and used for the sole purpose of establishing a cache with no merit other than "the numbers". Lest we forget, besides the lamp post caches, there are the guard rails in the parking lot, and the shrub in the lawn of the old folks home. Why???
:(
Though I will have to admit that micros are not on the top of my list as a favorite cache type and I have recently seen some that really make me wonder what on earth the person who hid it was thinking, I remember the story behind the shrub and my sense of judgment goes away. The story of the "shrub cache" is that the owner of the cache placed it there in honor of her mother who had spent some time recovering from an illness at the location. The staff were wonderful to her and very interested in learning more about caching and thought that watching the activity of the cache would be fun. Though I found it an uncomfortable one to do myself because it was so in the open, I found the sentiment behind the placement to be very honorable.
Not meaning to lecture here, it's just that we don't always know the whole story behind the cache placement. Plus, not only are there some oddly placed microcaches, I have seen many odd and inappropriately placed caches of all types. But then again, isn't that one of the exciting aspects of the "sport" - the diversity of it all makes it very interesting.