But imagine what it's like for someone who has absolutely no idea where he/she parked the car and spends the next three weeks (yes, three weeks) searching for it, getting more and more frustrated and bewildered.
Kieran (last name not known) had been to a stag party in Cork and couldn't find his wine-coloured Skoda Superb. He hadn't noted the road it was parked in so he had little to go on.
All he knew was that he had parked on an estate. So he methodically visited 59 different estates in the Cork suburbs - but to no avail.
Then he offered a €200 (£171) reward to anyone who could locate his car. And finally, he was in luck. A woman had seen the car on her estate in Ballyphehane.
That's certainly a stag party he won't forget in a hurry. "But sure I met the best people and had great craic" he said. And even greater craic after the party!
If Jenny and I park in some unfamiliar location, we always note the road it's in, and maybe some landmark the locals could identify and direct us to.
It was a routine problem in London, where parking spaces are scarce and often we had to park well away from the venue we were attending. Luckily we always found our car afterwards. So not much craic to be found there.
Pic: not Kieran!
I cannot imagine this!
ReplyDeleteBijoux: I know, it's bizarre, isn't it? Three weeks of searching....
DeleteNick, I never had a driver license , but Saïd always looked at the street name and a house number especially at night., so we never found ourselves in the situation of poor Keiran.
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Hannah: Saïd was obviously more sensible than scatterbrain Kieran!
DeleteYears ago I was at a horse show. It was dark when I went to the parking lot and could not find my car. It was unsettling. It took me about an hour of feeling frantic, then...viola, there it was. An hour seems like nothing compared to 3 weeks.
ReplyDeleteSandra: Searching for an hour is bad enough, but searching for three weeks, good grief. It sounds like he just calmly kept on searching, but he must surely have been absolutely frantic.
DeleteWow, I've forgotten where I parked but nothing like that. One time I drove over to the store next door and walked home because I forgot I drove over there. The next morning I went to the alley to get in my car and the car was no where to be found. I looked up across the parking lot and saw my car. LOL
ReplyDeleteMary: Sometimes I'm convinced I left the car in such and such a spot, and it turns out I left it somewhere quite different.
DeleteNowadays, many American made cars have a key fobs with a button you can push that flashes the headlights and/or honks the horn. I haven't needed to use that but I guess it would help find a lost car if your fob had that capability.
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Linda: We have key cards that will activate our car from a distance, which I guess is much the same thing.
DeleteI have lost my car in a large car park several times.
ReplyDeleteThese days I'm very careful to make mental notes, especially in unfamiliar places
Kylie: You've learnt your lesson! Not making a note of where the car is parked is asking for trouble.
Delete3 weeks! That poor guy.
ReplyDeleteColette: He could have reported it stolen, but I guess he was so attached to his wee Skoda that he just had to find it.
DeleteTake pics of all the necessary information and then hope you don't lose your phone!
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Ms Scarlet: Taking pics is even better than noting the road. As long as the pic includes the road sign....
DeleteHow is this possible? He couldn't have parked the car drunk? Perhaps memory issues?
ReplyDeleteLiam: I guess he just failed to note the road he was parked in. More common-sense issues than memory issues!
DeleteEven though 3 weeks does seem an absurd amount of time to have "misplaced" a car, we did the same a few years ago...but only for a couple of hours. As it happened, we were on a road trip and parked in a garage, then mistakenly could not recall which one as there were several. After about an hour, we did have memory recall.
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