No need to be elderly and/or demented.
Last house but one had no drive and limited scope to park outside so we'd park down the adjoining side road. Not outside somebody's house but alongside the fence of commercial premises.
We both commuted by bike/train so the car was often left from Sunday to Saturday. More than once it took ten minutes or so to find!!
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The Sun story is very sad. I've seen it from close quarters - dementia wrecks the lives of the sufferers and can do the same to their carers.
However, on a brighter note, one of the most amusing things I've seen was in a motorway service area. A suited business type was agitatedly walking up and down the rows of parked cars, pressing his key fob and hoping for a response. Presumably he wasn't demented...
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It was probably me...........
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A problem particularly with a hire car! I remember spending some time trying to get into a Clio in France only to find it was the wrong one! My initial thought was that the remote was not working.
Same color, same spec, just parked one row away in a Hypermarket carpark!
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These newspaper reports always seem to quote people being unwittingly amusing:
NCP said: "We believe this man was a loyal customer, and wish him well."
Loyal, as in, he had been using the car park for years.
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>>Same color, same spec, just parked one row away in a Hypermarket carpark!
I had exactly the same experience with my first car, except I did actually get into the wrong one. It wasn't until I noticed something on the dash that wasn't mine that it became obvious I was in the wrong car.
It was a Morris Minor, and my key opened the other one's door - it was parked immediately behind mine, same colour etc.
Got out pretty swiftly I can tell you. Weird it was.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Fri 21 Jan 11 at 11:22
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>>I had exactly the same experience with my first car, except I did actually get into the wrong one<<
Same here - way back in the 1970's, and my car was a cream Zephyr 4 mrk 111 with Leopard skin seat covers :)
Mind you, we'd bin in the pub beforehand, AND it was dark!!
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About par for the course with '70s Fords.
I've let myself into the wrong Cortina and on one occasion locked myself out, fortunately a colleague had an Escort.
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Ford locks were a joke. I remember a call out to a lock out with a Mk2 Fiesta.. Before I got the lock out kit out, I stuck my Nissan Patrol key in and it opened.
I used to go down to the Airport a lot on jobs and there were always a dozen or so cars in the multi-storey covered in a good layer of dust. Died on holiday ? Couldn't afford the fee ? who knows ?
Ted
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Guy I used to work with took a two year secondment in Denmark, left his old Audi 80 in the staff car park for the entire stint, started fine once he came back, just needed a new battery.
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>>used to go down to the Airport a lot on jobs and there were always a dozen or so cars in the multi-storey covered in a good layer of dust<<
I suppose that would be the ideal place to 'lose' a car, for insurance porpoises, if one was a crim!
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>>fortunately a colleague had an Escort.
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And her name was?
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>> >>fortunately a colleague had an Escort.
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>> And her name was?
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We didn't bother asking back in those days. ;>)
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>> I had exactly the same experience with my first car, except I did actually get
>> into the wrong one. It wasn't until I noticed something on the dash that wasn't
>> mine that it became obvious I was in the wrong car.
I had an experience in a pub car-park in South Wales - talking to the barmaid, I was tardy getting out of the place, and my friends got ahead of me.
Finishing my pint I said cheerio and rushed outside into the car park, opened the car's back door and hopped in.
There were four people inside who I didn't know from Adam. "This always happens, every Saturday night!" they said.
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Joe Strummer (from The Clash) parked a Cadillac somewhere in Murcia, went on a bender and couldn't find it again. It would be worth quite a tidy some if it ever turned up again.
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My mate once did something similar in Manchester. He had several cars at the time having bought one, inherited one and then got given a company car all within a couple of weeks. He drove one of his fleet (not the company car) to somewhere in Manchester he'd never been to before to meet some mates, left the car in a car park, went out on a bender with them and took a taxi home.
A week or so later in dawned on him that one of his cars was not in the driveway and not in the road. Being in Manchester his first thought was, of course, it had been stolen. Then he remembered driving it away and went to look for it. Didn't find it. Don't know if he ever did. It was a beige Triumph Acclaim so not a big loss.
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I parked my car in a hurry in a large (ok, huge) outdoor car park and took off at a run because I was late. It snowed heavily that afternoon and when I got back to the car park I didn't have the foggiest idea where I'd left the car.
Took over an hour to find it again, only was to spot it was to read the numberplate.
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There's not often snow at the Great Yorkshire Show at Harrogate, but there is a large car park.
Quite a few people tie something such as a carrier bag to their car's aerial to aid recognition.
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One of my memories when returning to my hire car in one of the Disney carparks was
A Disney car driving up and down the rows with folks on board who had "lost "their cars.
All part of the service.
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>> A Disney car driving up and down the rows with folks on board who had
>> "lost "their cars.
If you arrive in the morning they know roughly where the car will be as you are guided to a parking space.
Doesn't work if you arrive later in the day though, as you can then park anywhere. The "alarm" button on US cars remote key-fobs comes in very handy for setting off the alarm and flashing the lights to locate the car!
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Proof, as if we needed any. that some footballers are overpaid and very thick!
My Porsche? Forgot I even owned one, says Jermaine Pennant
By Kieran Daley
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Jermaine Pennant was contacted by his former club Real Zaragoza recently after he abandoned a Porsche at the railway station in the Spanish city five months ago – and promptly forgot that he owned it.
According to an article published in the Spanish newspaper Marca, Pennant said that he did not remember having owned the car when Real contacted him. The club then opened the car, discovering the keys on the seat within.
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bil, told me he came off nightshitf one freezing cold morning, and all the cars were white, gets to the car and the lock was froze. so he decides to warm it up a bit with his pistol.
oy! what do you think your doing?
iam defrosting the lock its frozen .
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Now, just where did I park my car? - Bromptonaut
