Have you ever forgotten were you parked your car?

waamo

I have a gentleman who gets my car for me. I park where I like and when I'm done he collects it from where it has been impounded and brings it right to me.

He hates it when I'm in the middle of a pedestrianised area.

peter_the_piper

Went to a dance in a marquee in a local (large) field once. Came out just before the end and very thick fog had clamped down. Not only did it take a fair time to find the car it also took some time to find the way out. We nearly drove into a stream whilst being lost but eventually got out.

chrisw

I landed at Luton airport one dark winter's night to find all the cars were covered with 6 inches of snow.
This was before remote key fobs so I spent hours walking up and down trying to read the number plates.

roddydogs

How could that old couple forget they had a hospital appointment, which is where the car was?

hollie.weimeraner

jack_pott wrote: »

I had the car stolen once. I stood there looking at the empty space for a while, wondering if I'd forgotten where I'd put it.

:rotfl: Likewise.. 1977 parked in a parking area whilst visiting a friend in Hyde and some scumbag Sheffield United supporter had taken it to get back to Sheffield after a Man Utd game. I must have spent 20 minutes thinking "I'm sure I parked here" before the penny dropped.

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Only time I would forget is at work as I always park in the same place. The odd time I haven't when the area has been blocked off if maintenance are in and I have to park somewhere else. I'll walk out of work heading over to the area of the car park where I'd usually park before remembering.

Doesn't take me 5 days though.

no.1swimmum

The first time we went to WDW, we lost our hire car at the Magic Kingdom parking lot - in our excitment we didn't note where we had parked!! We found it eventually with the help of the security man, I felt so stupid.

When we've gone anywhere with exceptionally large car parks like that or hire a car we take a pair of the flags that go on the windows (like the ones out for the football world cups etc) it makes it much easier to find as you can see them for some distance.

NBLondon

I did once go to Leeds to take a lady out for the evening. I didn't know the town so relied on her navigation. Came back to the car park and roamed around for 15 minutes getting increasingly worried before she admitted "Actually - it might have been the car park over the road...." The relationship didn't last either.

Head_The_Ball

A work colleague and I once flew from Heathrow to Leeds Bradford airport for a client meeting.

On his return he spent ages looking for his car in Car Park 1 until he eventually remembered that he had parked it in Car Park 1A.

I think I got to my home an hour away before he had even found his car. :rotfl:

Head_The_Ball

Another work colleague at a different company 'lost' her car one evening after a few drinks in a pub. She gave me a lift to the pub and agreed to drive me to my railway station later. She didn't drink herself that evening.

She parked her car on a road near the pub.

At about 9:00 we left the pub and walked back to where we thought she had parked her car. We couldn't find it and spent about an hour searching nearby streets for it until we concluded that it must have been stolen. I had had a few pints but wasn't more than a bit merry. She was sober.

We hailed a taxi to take me to the railway station and her to the Police Station to report the theft.

The next day she told me that she had returned to the area and found her car parked where she had left it the evening before. We are convinced that we had walked past that spot a few times searching for it.

We never did work out what had happened.

Either we just didn't see her car or someone had taken it and returned it to the same spot later.

Or maybe aliens were involved.