I couldn't find my car in the parking lot today.

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I couldn't find my SUV in the parking lot today, after shopping at the mall. I was out in the sun looking for it for about *30* minutes. A couple of women who were returning to the car after shopping watched me for minutes. I looked somewhat conspicuous to them, I guess, because I was wearing a backpack and a pained expression.

I felt like an idiot because I was looking at what I thought was the exact row where my car was but didn't see it. I remembered thinking how I was lucky to be able to park by the mall entrance. I didn't park in the row right in front of the entrance but in the row next to it. The thought of filing a police report crossed my mind at about 15 minutes.

And then I walked around the corner.

The entrance, again! The entrance, yellow, adorned with gray triangles, was identical to the entrance I just left and where I thought I parked my SUV. I looked to where I knew my SUV would be, and it was there.

Whew.

Ironically, and foreshadowing this, I had been in the mall wandering around for an even longer amount of time looking for a video rental store. The mall's map table was mislabeled, however, and two of the three video stores it said were there, weren't, on either the upper or lower floor. There was a store that sold videos but I only wanted to rent one.

Last edited by hyperbolic on 13 Mar 2007, 2:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

You've never lost your car before? I have the worst time with that - I mean, I can lose it at the parking lot at work - I always park in the exact same space and if that isn't possible I park right up by a telephone pole or something so I can look for the pole and assume my car is near by . . .
When I recently got a new car I never thought I'd find it again - thank God for the panic button and the alarm . . .

I frequently lose my car on campus. I know the lot it is in, but as for the row, almost never remember that. I usually end up parking near a lamp post if I can, that way the search gets narrowed down significantly.

I've always had that problem, especially since I drive small cars that are easily hidden behind the oversize trucks and SUVs that those annoying americans drive. Fortunately, my cars are usually the only of their kind in the parking lot (like my '87 VW Scirocco), and I also use flags and atenna toppers to make them stand out.

I often have that problem because I nearly always park in the same lot at the mall, near the same place, but if I park somewhere different, then I don't remember until I have spent a good 15 minutes or so looking where I normally park.

happens to me lol

lol try losing your car at an airport after a meeting a girl who just got off a 10 hour flight and has been awake 36 hours straight.

I was meeting a girl I actually met on here. She was from England, obviousily when she met me she was quite knackered. So I grabbed her stuff and we got going. Well as it turned out the airport terminal had two seperate parking lots each seperated by a wall. I tried pushing the remote to see if I could get the car to honk, but alas, no honk. After walking around aimlessly with this poor tired girl, it finally occurred to me that I maybe in the wrong parking lot. (I think at one point she suggested that )


Needless to say she slept the whole drive home. Can't say that I blame her.

Ya, losing your car sucks, but it certainly isn't Haven post worthy, IMHO,

Wow!

Is that bizarre or what?

I do this all this often as well.

What happened to you was way worse than what happened to me!

Thanks for letting me know.

On my campus I use the same parking spot every time. It's far out of the way but I always know where it is. I'm not the only one who does this, the other car that always parks in the empty side of the lot away from everyone else has a corvette so it's always nice to look at his car when I go out to mine.

I remember losing my car in Spokane. I forgot what floor I parked on because I didn't look what floor I parked on so I broke into anxiety when I couldn't find it. But I did remember what the floor looked like and it had this construction going on and I remembered it was near the doors to the mall and I remember where I had my car parked so I went on each level and looked and finally found it. It was embarrassing I had a breakdown in public. I told myself "next time pay attention to what floor you park on."
I was scared it got stolen.

Yeah. And it would be so damned embarassing to find it, after reporting it stolen. People do that all the time though, and the cops just joke about how 'dumb' they are. There are technological solutions.

It happens to me sometimes, too. I get anxiety that I can't find my car.

Don't feel silly, it happens to people a lot.

One more reason not to go to the mall...

Even NTs

Gold's Gym and Walmart are the worst (I rarely go to malls, but they are bad too). I feel especially stupid when I am cruising around the parking lot looking for a place to park near some type of landmark - like I am one of those people who go to the gym and refuse to take an available parking space so I don't have to walk too far