YOU KNOW ITS BAD WHEN......

when I think crazy things like, "If someone gave me $100,000 and said, if I take it I could never detect again, I would tell them to keep their money"

piston broke wrote:"If someone gave me $100,000 and said, if I take it I could never detect again, I would tell them to keep their money"

i`ll go along with that. i wouldn`t take the money
cheers dave

......You start thinking "How can I get a Bobcat up on top of that hill"?
Or
......You cover your detector is plastic shopping bags so it wont get wet when it pours rain all weekend.
Or
......the Gold price is the only important thing on the nightly news.

yes my toyota will go up that steep hill...hang on im losing traction....OH NOOO IM ROLLING BACKWARDS....wham!!!! glad that tree stopped me.

OMG DID MY DETECTOR SUFFER AND DAMAGE????

Maka- Twobit you utes all dinted at the back
Twobit - No worries mate hows me detector????
Maka - its all good ill hook up and pull you out
Twobit-cheers mate , OK UNHOOK ILL REVERSE BACK!!

MAKA THUMPS INTO A DIFFERENT STUMP.

#$&% &&$#* GOLD!!!!

You pair of bloody goons! It sounds like the hill was ridiculously steep or perhaps moderately steep and slippery.

When you keep going back to the hole you pulled a nugget out of, and you know there's no more gold there, but you keep waving the coil over it so something can magically appear. It does regrow you know.

...you are yarning with a mate while at the besach with your back to the surf, and this rogue wave comes in! Happened a few days ago...too scared to try turning it on again in case my thousands of dollare of electrons go fttttttttttt!!s

You make lines from gold dust and think about snorting it just to get a gold fix..
Whats worse is i have looked at my jar of gold sitting near my keyboard 3 times while typing the above sentence...
You get anxiety attacks because you want to sluice, pan and detect all at the same time, but know you can only do one, so you set up the sluice, hand the wife a shovel and pick to sluice, strap on the detector and say " I will be back for lunch"
Turn and throw the pans to the kids and tell them No gold NO dinner...

Byteman wrote:You pair of bloody goons! It sounds like the hill was ridiculously steep or perhaps moderately steep and slippery.

It was ridiculously steep, and covered in about a foot of loose stone chips from a battery on top of the hill.
Even the motor bikes gave up on that hill.....
Cars all fixed now, and ready for the next misadventure.

Maka, I attempted to get to the Bodalla mine on the trail bike last weekend. Let's just say that I never got there, I'm covered in bruises, and my brand new trail bike isn't looking that new any more...

...you kick your missus out of bed and sleep with your detector
...your missus cracks open the ornamental rocks in the garden
...you skip important assignment study to go detecting
...the only page you repeatedly study in your text is the one dealing with the specific gravity of gold