What do you do to kill time?

[MadPierre]

I Spy (with lights off).

I spy with my little eye, something begining with D.

Dark.

I spy with my little eye something beginning with D ..... etc.

 

[ian.p]

we tried that when doing ride of the valcureies as an exchange trip in peak it quickly became a game of i feel. one member of the partys contrabution being:
"i feel with my rather big hands somthing begining with c"
at which point we all fell over laughing and he still maintains it was his croll...

 

[cavermark]

I believe one of Robbie Shone's "male models" may have "entertained themselves" in an unmentionable manner whilst hanging around for a photo.....(haha good old scandalous rumours......)

 

[AndyF]

I believe one of Robbie Shone's "male models" may have "entertained themselves" in an unmentionable manner whilst hanging around for a photo.....(haha good old scandalous rumours......)

Don't tell me they started listening to Justin Timberlake on an MP3 player.....please....  Are there no limits.

 

[Cave_Troll]

sleep

 

[cavemancolumbus]

Alpine Caving Techniques recommends a 'friendly wrestle.' If your cave is close to the road its also a good way of warming up. apparently. 

 

[ogof addict]

fortunately i have never had to wait around to get rescued, but on a normal caving trip needing time killing, there is always singing ("show me the way to go home" if the leader cant find the way on, or Monty Python type filth if just bored), snogging, sleeping, finding the smallest, darkest lair i can fit into and turning my light off and waiting for unsupecting cavers, getting shouted at for wandering off exploring, mud fighting, making rabbit droppings out of mud, there's the water slide down Fechan to play on, tying other cavers to convenient bits of rock or each other, water fights, splashing around, looking for formations that look rude....

lots of stuff

 

[playoutside]

Make excuses for the noises of bodily functions.

The creaky floor board in the upper passage.

The calling sound of the female cave spider

 

[j4nny]

sing to keep morale up. sometimes show tunes lol

got stuck down Dany years ago, think we got through most of the songs in grease.

 

[Ralph]

MANY years ago I spent around 14 hours at Stop Pot with 6 or 7 other cavers. Eureka Junction was flooded and we'd done a pull through from Lancaster, Stop Pot didn't have a ladder on it in those days. (OK stupid I know but we all make mistakes, even me!)
We whiled away the time making hot drinks in a tin can that contained our "emergency kit" using several bars of chocolate and our meagre supply of candles.

 

[Alex]

When I was stuck in an Austrian cave recently due to a flood pulse all we did was tell stories and record Blair witch type messages on my head cam. After that we just ait some food and bedded down to try and get some sleep (It was after midnight). I dont recall any singing until we were on the way out where I broke out singing "The only way is up..."

 

[fi]

Waiting for divers to return usually means there's time for a snooze.

 

[graham]

Waiting for divers to return usually means there's time for a snooze.

Aye back in the '70s I had a good eight hour kip waiting for the diver in LNRC.

 

[webdesignnet]

Sleeping in a cave can have amusing consequences. I was last to go up a pitch a year or two ago so I'd got comfortable, switched my light off and settled down to wait. The girl leading the next party screamed a bit when she came around the corner to see a twitching rope and what looked like a body at the bottom of it

the best one ... she screamed a bit 

 

[Alok]

My super duper socializing skills.

I'm the kung foo master of the social scene...Wooohaaa chop chop...