Have You Ever Forgotten Where You Parked Your Car?

[arjay]

On the TV programme "Good Morning" recently there was a discussion about the embarrassing situations caused when you forget where you parked your car. Fortunately, it doesn't happen now that the hazard lights flash when you press the button on the car key,
1.One woman said that she had to wait for 2 hours until the supermarket car park had emptied before she could find her car.
2.Another woman said that she was looking for her car for ages until she remembered that she was using her husband's car.
3. Another woman also wasted her time looking for her car until she remembered that she had walked to the shops.
4. In case you think that I am being sexist, I admit that I have done it a couple of times.
After that I used to write down in my diary where the car was parked before I left it.
5. Have you ever forgotten where you left your car?

[VHG]

I remember reading a story in a newspaper a couple of years ago where a couple went to Blackpool for the weekend.

They booked into a B&B then went for a walk round the town, then could not remember where their B&B was.

The police had to drive them round the town, up and down all the roads, till they found it.

[pixie373]

Yes - i couldn't remember which level, although i knew roughly where. By the time i found it, my ticket had gone past however long they give you to get out and they had to manually open the barriers for me:-\

[ummmm]

I've walked home forgetting I drove to the supermarket.

I also get the kids names wrong :-)

[aelmpvw]

haven't forgotten the road where i've parked it but i've tried getting into the same model/colour car as my own

[pixie373]

Omg, ael. I did that very recently. Clicked to unlock my car. I heard it work, but it was still locked. Stood very close and kept pressing unlock. Then i saw baby seats in the back and actually thought "someone's put those in the wrong car!" My car was directly behind me.

[pixie373]

When I was about 18, I also came nose-to-nose with another car in a multi-storey car park. The other driver got out and said "do you know you're going the wrong way?"
I said, "I'm not. I'm going there to the exit. The arrows are pointing the wrong way."
He actually looked terrified and reversed to let me through.

I hope my insurance company aren't reading this.

[josaphine32]

Yes, in a hired car at disney world in florida, it was seriously not funny really hot and did not know the make or model, we just new it was silver, how popular are silver cars. Answer every other bloody car,

[dunnitall]

Yes I have and it was not remembering which floor I'd parked the car in a multi storey car park, how frustrated I felt at the time and that was before electronic keys too lol.

[Mosaic]

Constantly, and also look for the wrong car if I've gone out in the other 'un. Usually floods back to me after a walk / look round.

[Arrods]

Parked at the John Lewis car park at Bluewater which was virtually empty. Did shopping and returned to find car gone. Trooped back to M & S to return groceries to cold storage and reported theft to the concierge. After explaining situation, chap said - with a sigh - 'you do realise that there are two John Lewis car parks?'

It was clear I wasn't the first to make this mistake!

[Peter Pedant]

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Yeah after a bad night shift: I had to ring the Police and say I wasnt sure if I had lost it or it was stolen. (1980) and they said wait a few days !
and then rang me and said it was parked 6 miles away,
and that therefore I probably hadn't lost it.

Funny thing was, it was in a slum in Brum
and my last client at 5 pm came from there and had been inquiring for buses home....I always wondered.

[Peter Pedant]

Does this count....

when I was on Chemo and wandering around the town in a dressing gown, a fren' gave me a lift to town, so when I got back into the car, I said Drive before I croak, and my fren coughed and said I dont recognise you

because it was the w rong car

[IggyB]

Popped into the supermarket near where I lived on way back from work but completely forgot about the car and walked back home with the shopping. It wasn't until the next morning as I was reporting the theft from my house that it came flooding back... Very embarrassed

[roopower]

When we first moved here, I didn't realise there were different entrances to alternate levels of the multistorey. I spent ages wandering around trying to find the car.

[heathfield]

When I was in the army, an elderly officer was always forgetting where he parked his car. He also had half-a-dozen swagger sticks scattered strategically placed around the unit, because he would put one down, then forget where it was. A neatly pressed spare uniform hung in his office for those occasions when he'd turn up in the morning having forgotten he was duty 'Officer of the Day'!

[Purple_Popple]

I am always doing this. Car parks are so big now I have to write the zone number on the back of my hand before I leave the car. I often have that moment of panic walking over to where I THOUGHT I had parked the car to find its been stolen yet again!! (I parked it somewherevelse doh!).

[Old_Geezer]

Yes for a short while. Hasn't everyone ?
One can get smart phone apps now that monitor where you started from and where you are so you can go find your car. I downloaded one once but didn't get around to using it.

[murraymints]

Yes..we lost our car for a week in the Algarve...parked up on side street in whitewashed village....all streets looked the same !