Forgetting where you put things...

[Dingfod]

Have you ever forgotten where you parked? British motorist Eric King did and his car wasn't found until seven months later. (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006430117,00.html) After forgetting the street name of where he parked his car in Bury St. Edmunds he spent four days looking for it to no avail. King made 10 trips back to the town where he lost his car, often overnight stays. He filed a police report but couldn't collect on insurance because there was no evidence the car was stolen. Kind didn't get the car back until police received an email about an abandoned car, remembered the police report that was filed and contacted King.

Have you ever forgotten where you parked your car? How did you find it and how long were you without it?

What else have you forgotten and then found later?

[Shelli]

Wow. That's pretty messed up. :lol:

The worst I ever did was lose my keys to find them a couple months later...































... in my purse. :duh: :blush2:

[biochemgirl]

My mom used to always forget where she parked the car. I remember one time when I was younger wandering the parking lot with my mom, grandma and younger brother for a half hour trying to find the car. It was kind of embarrassing when complete strangers started trying to help us find our car.

My hubby is always teasing me about losing the remote. I don't know what it is but whenever I get ahold of it it mysteriously transports into some sort of black hole to never be seen again.

[CEH]

We have a red Saturn Vue, which seems to be very common here in Indiana. We can always find our car...until we open a door and find a stroller we can never recall putting in there...:D Thankfully a few months ago someone tried to tear the license plate off, so now we just have to look for the red Vue with a beat-up plate.

As for loosing or forgetting other things...I'm notorious for that.

About a year ago the neighbor let me cat-sit while she was away for a week. She gave me the keys to her apartment and I put them somewhere safe. The next day I couldn't recall where I put them and I tore the apartment apart looking for them. Four hours later I found them in my back pocket.

When I was eight I kept a diary with a lock on it. I kept that up for a grand total of two days before I lost the keys. :/ Three years later when we moved I still couldn't find them.

I also have a habit of putting money in odd places and forgetting about it. I was cleaning my room earlier today and I found $80 all together. Some of the places included a shoebox, under the cable box, under the trash can, and between/under books.

[Annie]

We have a red Saturn Vue, which seems to be very common here in Indiana. We can always find our car...until we open a door and find a stroller we can never recall putting in there...:D Thankfully a few months ago someone tried to tear the license plate off, so now we just have to look for the red Vue with a beat-up plate.

LOL - that's funny :D

It should be really easy to find our vehicle, in any Parking lot. It's the Farm-truck 'totally beat-up', with no radio inside even, lol. But
still, the thing manages to blend-in.... Don't ask me how. LOL

And money, Keys, glasses and "Honey-DO" lists :D ~ Nooo, we never lose them, neither.

Just about, oh maybe ~ every other! :blush: day LOL

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I forgot where I parked my car and it took 30 minutes of walking around a giant concrete parking lot when it was 105 degrees to find it.


One time I thought I put my penis in my underwear, but I didn't and accidentally got my former best friend pregnant while we were both asleep.

[ceptimus]

I parked my car in one of those huge multi-story car parks in a northern English town. I couldn't find my car, so I began walking around the car park in a thorough search pattern, looking at each car and covering each floor of the car park in turn. Eventually I was satisfied that my car must have been stolen. It took about three hours. :(

While walking to the police station to report the theft, I discovered that I'd been in the wrong car park.

[ChuckF]

Yeah, nothing makes me feel dumber than losing my car in a garage. Mall parking garages are the worst because I always think "OK, remember which section you parked in" and then I immediately forget. I have a strategy though. I walk around the garage pressing the horn button on my keyless entry thingy. It hasn't worked yet, but it makes me feel like I'm doing something and I always find my car eventually.

A couple weeks ago as I was getting settled into the new place I couldn't find my cell phone charger. I looked everywhere for the thing. Checked the drawers in the kitchen. The car. Under the bed. All the usual places. Finally, I just went and bought a replacement charger for $20. Two days later, I found it. In a shoebox.

[ceptimus]

Many years ago, some friends and I attended an outdoor show where thousands of cars were parked in a huge featureless grass field.

The people in the car parked next to us were making smug comments about how they'd be able to find their car, as they had tied a fluorescent yellow plastic bag to the radio antenna, and it would therefore be easily visible from the other side of the field.

We found the stall that was giving away the plastic bags, and went around the field and tied bags to about two hundred other car antennas.

I know it was mean - my only excuse is that we were young and irresponsible.

[Julie]

Julie puts things in a "safe place"

In Julies world "safe place" means gone forever.

If its anything of importance Julie always has to give it to someone else...or it will be lost for ever.

(Please no one ask Julie where she has put the Kids savings bonds...The savings bonds that are to be used to take the kids to disney land when they are tall enough to ride the big rides....good thing Julie has a few more years to find those!)

[JoeP]

I lost a USB memory stick for a couple of weeks recently. I checked everywhere - under my car seat even - asked everyone, even asked in the cafeteria, and was telling everyone to be careful with their possessions because it had obviously been pocketed by someone. Then I found it in the bottom of my laptop bag.

[Legs]

I went to a wine & cheese show with a friend of mine, when we came out afterwards were couldn't remember where we parked the car. We looked up and down aisle after aisle of this convention centre parking lot to no avail. So we went and had dinner and then came back a couple of hours later, still couldn't find it.

We called her husband to come help us and he arrived a half hour later driving the car we were looking for.

She had taken HIS car, which is silver, and for 4 hours we had been looking for HER red car which HE had. :blink:

We had walked right past the silver car several times and not even noticed it.

[Puck]

I've lost 50% or better of my mind.

I forgot the name of a common flower yesterday and shook my head and yelled at my brains to stop losing shit in there.

Marigolds! I just remembered.

[Moxy]

I once lost my wallet for 4 days. Turned out that it was on my dresser under a hat that I usually wore pretty much every day.

One time I looked for my keys for about a half an hour, couldn't find them. Decided to use my spare set to go where I needed to go, and when i got there, I reached back, and sure enough, the original keys were clipped to my pants already...right where I always keep them.

I know I've lost other things...but I can't remember any right now.

[bobeh]

My hubby is always teasing me about losing the remote. I don't know what it is but whenever I get ahold of it it mysteriously transports into some sort of black hole to never be seen again.

It doesn't vibrate by any chance does it?

My bad.

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