Sweat? Smell? Ickiness?

Psssst...Mama Wolf...this is ME. I understand!

No worries--the stinky, sweaty person will probably not want a hug from a stinky, sweaty wolf, either!

Excellent! I'm sooo NOT wearing deodorant that day!

I'm sooo NOT wearing deodorant that day!

Umm . . . uhh . . .

WiseOldOwl (rethinking trip plans)

When we (the RedHat Box'rs) came back from a 2-day event in Ontario in '05, the guard asked us why we'd been to Canada & we said "to visit friends"... we thought afterwards it was a good thing he didn't ask us anything about them, because we'd have had to say that we didn't know their last names, just that they called themselves Norasta & Guitarzan & we'd met them on the internet.... :)

I'm sooo NOT wearing deodorant that day!

Definitely more effective than trying to cover yourself in cake. :)

After all, I am the getaway driver.

See?

i knew she'd come in handy. . .

~a squirrel

LOL...
There is an idea!

we'd met them on the internet....

Some still see flags when people say, "I am meeting someone from the internet." Although, these days it is more accepted than in 2005. My mom does not get concerned out when I say I am meeting people from the internet. She gets concerned about others meeting people on the internet. However, I've been meeting people from the internet (or BBS) since 1996. She really worries about me in the woods alone. "Mom, I am letterboxing alone at sunset on the Appalachian Trail near that town used as a setting in that horror movie we watched in Royal Oak." She will call and check on me often. She is happier to hear, "Mom, I am meeting some letterboxers and hiking on a trail."

Although, these days it is more accepted than in 2005.

R and I met on the internet in 1996. That used to completely freak out people. Now it barely fazes them. We were married in 1997, and we are still very much together, so I suppose it worked out. LOL.

Some still see flags when people say, "I am meeting someone from the internet."

My first trip to Texas ('06) came about because my daughter wanted to go to New Mexico to visit this boy she knew from the internet. I wanted to make sure he was 17 as advertised and not 47! So I flew down to Midland with her to meet him, then 'boxed my way up to Dallas/Ft Worth & flew home.

NOT wearing deodorant that day

I tried very hard to resist... I really did... for about a minute... but it must be said.

WILL WE NOTICE A DIFFERENCE????????

Knit Wit, who is back from vacation and feeling feisty LOL

Oh cool! You are an early internet user, too. Most couples are meeting online. In the case of my cousin, she technically can say she met her fiance through foursquare.

Oh cool! You are an early internet user, too. Most couples are meeting online. In the case of my cousin, she technically can say she met her fiance through foursquare.

Indeed. We met through an AOL chat room. Do you remember those?

Glad you checked him out first. Most guys that I met were the actual age. There are weirdos!
There were a few guys that I talked to online that I never, ever, ever met that were a bit creepy. I just turned 14 (in 1995) and was taking guitar lessons. Some 23-year-old in California started chatting with me. He started learning guitar, too, saying that he was going to fly to Michigan to meet me, and he would send me Bible verses. There was something overall creepy about it - especially since I was fourteen.
When I was 16 or 17, a forty-year-old man in Missouri was messaging me that was really creepy. I would not be surprised if Chris Hansen has met him since then.

However, I've had more good experiences than bad online! I had a good friend named Craig back in the mid/late nineties, but we did lose contact with each other. I met my good friend Zach that way. Technically, I met Tom that way, too. Then, of course, I met you, idlemoon, and 100+ more letterboxers, too.

Yep, they are still in existence, too; only for free, now. Tom still uses the AOL software for his email, instant message, and the chat rooms occasionally. If you read that other message I wrote to Sheba, that is where that twenty-three-year-old found me. The AOL member profiles, though, was how I found my friend Zach (the one looking for Faygo).

Oh cool! You are an early internet user, too. Most couples are meeting online.

I was a PRE HISTORIC INTERNET USER.......
you know what THAT was ???

CB RADIO .....
My family was BIG into CB radios in the late 70s, 80s.
We traveled all over to "Coffee Breaks" and even hosted several get togethers at our house.
So , when INTERNET came along, it was just the next step.
I have met a LOT of people online.....Including CHARLIE .... though he lived just 8 miles up the road in the next town.

I dated a few who I met through various dating services or game rooms or Messenger programs....
UH OH .... remember ICQ ???
AOL IM ... YUP ......

I never put myself in any danger.... but have had a couple of bad experiences....
one was a man who had not had a conversation with MISTER TOOTHBRUSH for a LONG LONG TIME .... and the other was a man who asked me, half way through my meal (which cost 7$ at Bob Evans) if I could pay for my own dinner. ( I drove 40 miles to meet him and HE asked me out)
The first experience, MR GREEN TEETH, went something like this......
MR GREEN TEETH: (while snatching up the lunch check).... "Well, Darlin.... I don't know ... are you WORTH 15 bucks?"
DINA B: "THERE IS NO WAY IN *you know where* YOU WILL EVER FIND OUT"
The second experience, who I refer to as MR CHEAPO... went this way.
DINA B: "No, that's fine, I can pay for my own dinner, no problem.".....
ME CHEAPO: (Just outside the door of the restaurant, heading to our cars) "I'd like to see you again."
DINA B: "HA.... not in THIS lifetime you won't ... you may dress like a gentleman, but you are a very crass, uncool individual and certainly not the type I desire to date."

I met a lot of people... and while most weren't "dating material" all but those two were very nice people.

THEN there's Charlie......*LOL* We met through MYSPACE ... talked for a week or so and I invited him to meet me at the local theater for a horror movie.
Half way through the movie, which was very graphic and bloody... I said "This isn't most people's idea of a date movie you know.".... He replied "I know ... ain't it GREAT?"......
and we have been together ever since. *LOL*

I think its a great way to meet people.

Dina B.

Half way through the movie, which was very graphic and bloody... I said "This isn't most people's idea of a date movie you know.".... He replied "I know ... ain't it GREAT?"......

awwww!!!! It was Love at 1st Bite, I mean Sight.

beautiful love story

We had CB radios. My parents ran the neighborhood watch in the mid/late eighties. Then they had a twenty channel emergency one for the car that I listened to a few times. Tom bought one about eight or nine years ago, since he is a radio buff (particularly scanners). However, he sold it because it did not interest him.

However, ye olde internet to me, is BBS, which I've wanted to use as a theme for a letterbox someday. They started around the late seventies, I think. Around the time we got AOL in the latter half of 1995 (pay by the minute), I also was calling local and not so local bulletin board systems. They had message boards, games, and files. Those with multiple lines had chat rooms. Some offered internet services. They even had events, too! I went to one at a restaurant with my friend Craig. He was sixteen and had a car. Sadly, that restaurant it was at is no longer standing.

Going to letterboxing events reminds me of that. Meeting a bunch of people that I know by other names online. "Hi, I am Mia." "Nice to meet you. I am Bela Lugosi's Dead."

Their love is horrific, but not in the usual bad sense of that word. They made their own definition!

Haha...UH-OH! I sure do remember ICQ.

As for CBs, I miss them, and I am bummed that we do not still us them. You could talk with anybody instantly. They were fun and friendly. My handle was Princess (Are you surprised?), as that was my given nickname from birth.

It seems to me that the more technologically advanced we get, the more disconnected we become.

I do hope people realize I mean nothing but love with that, too.

TheSeekers are awesome people. I was telling Ezmerelda and her fiance about their upcoming zombified nuptials. They thought it was cool.

koala, hoping to visit that way and maybe have some of their delicious sounding wine!

However, ye olde internet to me, is BBS, which I've wanted to use as a theme for a letterbox someday.

I don't remember BBS, but I do remember INTRANET .... and UNDERNET .....
and MOVIE SCRIPT Chat rooms with no Private messaging.
I first got a computer and internet in 94 or so.

DM,
I LOVED CBs. Our HOUSE CB was in my brothers room.
More often than not, I would sit out in my Dad's old truck and talk on his MOBILE.
SEVERAL people who are on my FB now are friends I met through the days of CB,
or EARLY INTERNET days.

Dina B.

One time we were driving to Florida, and there was a truck riding too close behind us. Mommie got on the CB and said, "Back off! You are scaring my babies!" LOL...he apologized and did.

ICQ - Starchat. . .

yup. *nods*

i think we letterboxers just *pretend* to not like technology. i have met more of us who know our way whizzingly around computers, tech toys and electronics than your average bear. Frankly, i totally get the cool gadgetry behind geocaching. i just simply think the idea of wasting it on finding McDonald's toys, soggy postcards and Bandz is stupid.

~tigs (that was my opinion, not meant to start a war)

Well, I don't know that I have a most important one. But I do have a bucket list:

She left off the most important item because, the thought of it makes her heart race, and she gets butterflies in her stomach. That would be meeting me finally. After which she will break free of the fear of hugging and turn into a beautiful enchantress. Oh wait, the enchantress is me. Ah well, it was nice to drea, right Mama Wolf?

Mei Mary Poppins
who is slinking away to hide behind her sewing machine

I met my husband online! We were both youth ministers at the time. I was in CA, he was in NC. Our first interaction on the messageboard we were on pissed me off and I basically wrote him off as a jerk. Then, a few nights later a group of us ended up in an AOL chat room. Derek started a private conversation with me and, I pretty much gave him short answers(He was trying to be the nice guy he is and welcome me to the group.) About a half hour later, he asked about my nieces. That turned into a 13 hour conversation. A month and a half later I flew to Charlotte to spend Thanksgiving with his family. 9 months later we were engaged and a year after that, we were married. He's freaking hysterical

Katie

You are on #1 on the stalker exchange list so I didn't leave you off at all! But there ain't no way I'm hugging you to turn you into a beautiful enchantress! I ain't that dumb -- you'll turn me into a frog or something!

ha ha

our trail names came from our CB HANDLES!!

Lynn was the Snake Dancer
and i was Dixie Darlin'

we have continuously used these names for ourselves since the early 70's

Kathy

you'll turn me into a frog or something!

I use my powers for good. I don't like frogs.

Just was in Ottawa this past weekend. On way home we stopped at a fish n chips take out only place. Cod/haddock/chips (thick fries) and poutines was all they serve. The poutines were incredible.

The poutines were incredible.

Did they have more than one "type?"... Maybe various kinds of gravy or cheese ??

I had NEVER heard of POUTINE until recently.... but really liked the kind that we made.

Dina B. Seeker