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You Gotta Get Your Car Here:


When starting a round, the Mouse is allowed to set some ground rules. The most common one is "you've gotta get
your car here", which means they expect you will see them but will find it difficult to figure out how to get
your vehicle there. Of course for hides where someone has gone 4WD to get to their spot they can't call that.
Everyone has to be physically capable of it to call it.

And a popular question the cats have for the mouse is "how did you drive it?" They might get an answer like
"I drove it like a Cadillac!" or "I drove it like a Hummer", which would give you a clue as to the terrain they
were parked on.

But for this hide I knew everyone could do some light off-roading so that wasn't a concern. But I DID declare
that they had to get their car here. I was hidden in George Wyth park. When I got there I noticed there was
a little dirt path (ATV?) on the far left side, running 15-20 feet from the big 12ft "keep deer off the highway"
fence. So I took that road to see how far in I could get. Quite some distance as it turns out. I drove
slowly for what seemed like several blocks, barely squeaking between small sapling trees from time to time.
I finally came to an end where I could not continue, but I COULD pull up beside the fence. OK I'm hid.

Now directly on the other side of the fence is the highway. Also, unfortunately for them, it was a part of it
that didn't have any exit or entrance ramps. Just a stretch of 65mph and an overpass. So I talked and watched
cars zoom past for some time, wondering which ones were cats. They really couldn't stop easily there, and they
were also unlikely to be passing right by me as I was talking, so they were missing out on good signal strength.
The Cats keep grumbling about the only place they can get a good signal from me is while they're on the highway,
and how there's just no (direct) way to get down below the (nearby) overpass to check there.

This goes on for quite some time, I've probably been hidden here for half an hour now, it's a good hide. And
then I see someone behind me slowing down and pulling onto the shoulder. Is it a cop? Probably not. Lets
see. Big brown truck, that's Tony. He gets out and walks up to the fence. Gives it a nice slow up-and-down
look. Now I've got an extra long mic cord on my radio, and I cheerfully talk on it, "Tony! How ya doing?!"
"I'm okay..." he answers. (the others on the radio can probably hear him) "So Tony, how do you plan to get
your car here??" I hold the mic over to the fence to pick up his reply. "I'm workin' on it." And he goes
back to his truck and takes off. Now of course he's going in the wrong direction on the divided highway so he's
going to have to go back into Waterloo and turn around to have a go at the park, so it takes him a good 10 min
before he finally pulls up behind me.



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last updated 11/16/2023 at 10:05:34