A Large Pet Peeve

So the girls and I went out on Christmas Eve to find a cache. I took us to one that was newer and closer to town because I didn’t feel like dragging them out to another county or something. I found the perfect cache a few miles away from home, a large cache recently placed that would be easy peasy lemon squeezy. We got to the neighborhood that was home to the walking path that led to ground zero. We got to the base of the tree in question, and the younger daughter easily pulled the cache from the base. Here’s the thing, though. It wasn’t a large. It was either a tiny regular or, more likely, a bigger small, depending on your point of view. 

Why is it that people mess up sizes so often? Especially when it comes to the upper end? It’s not like there aren’t pretty well-defined guides to this sort of thing (though, I think a nano should fall under “other,” but that’s a minor quibble in comparison). I know that newer cachers can be excited to make their first hides, but come on, folks! Tarryall is a large. Tunnel of Light? That’s a large. If you can buy the container off the shelves of your local grocery store, it’s not a large! Yes, a cache is a cache is a cache, but how disappointing is it to go for a cache and have it be something entirely different from what it leads you to expect? A Letterbox without a stamp? A Multi that basically goes nowhere? What’s even the point of an EarthCache that just says, “Find an interesting geologic feature and take a photo with it”? And I know it’s a small thing, but it never ceases to get under my skin! You’re killing me here!