Will you admit to this? Losing your car in a park... - Page 5

DiAnne · ‎09-22-2010

I lost my car once many years ago at an Angel baseball game at Anaheim Stadium. We walked all over that stadium parking lot and finally just had to wait until people left to find my car. It was a good lesson - I always pay attention where I park and it has never happened again.

granddi · ‎03-16-2010

We have 2- 80 yo friends that live in Dallas. They parked in an adjacent garage and went to an afternoon movie. After the movie they could not find their car and it was very hot in Dallas to walk around the garage. They called an Urber to drive them around the garage to find their car.

CrazyKittyLvr2 · ‎05-11-2013

@chickenbutt Oh my gosh, you are not dumb. Please don't think or say that. My kids are 47 and 51 and neither have a good memory.

There is a down side to my memory, I can't forget thngs I would love not to remember. I also have a font of useless information rattling around in my head like birthdates of people I knew 30 yrs. ago and haven't seen in years.

I am 70, and while my memory is still good, my body is going to he** in a hand basket quickly. lol Truthfully, I would rather have a working body.

debfau · ‎03-25-2010

At the MGM Casino here at National Harbor in Maryland, they have signs in the parking lot telling people to take a picture of where they parked so they know which garage & what level they are in since there are several of them.

Also I used to go to the Richmond Raceway to watch the NASCAR races and you basically park in a dirt field - usually you know which field you are parked as you might have to take a trolley up to the raceway - but when you are parked in those grass fields you never know how far away you are from the trolley stand; people who are in the first group leaving the raceway use their car alarms to find their cars.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
@chickenbutt Oh my gosh, you are not dumb. Please don't think or say that. My kids are 47 and 51 and neither have a good memory.

There is a down side to my memory, I can't forget thngs I would love not to remember. I also have a font of useless information rattling around in my head like birthdates of people I knew 30 yrs. ago and haven't seen in years.

I am 70, and while my memory is still good, my body is going to he** in a hand basket quickly. lol Truthfully, I would rather have a working body.

Aww, you are too kind! Yeah, I'm not too bright anymore and I just have to face that fact. Losing my memory is something that has bothered me even more.

I had a crazy good memory. I think I've told this story here before but one thing I could do was to have somebody take a book (any book that I haven't seen), open it up, and hand it to me. I could look at it for a moment and then hand it back. I would, then, read those pages back to the other person. Now - yeah right. hehe Not gonna happen.

Like you, I forget stuff I wish I could retain. Meanwhile, all the horrible stuff I've dealt with like abuses and different types of cruelty are burned into my brain. I was just talking about this, this morning. Why can't I remember all the good stuff and lose the bad stuff? I could deal with that for sure. Meanwhile, the horrors continue to haunt me and some things I'd love to revisit in my mind, just for fun, are gone already. I'm only 66 and the cognitive breaks and memory losses started about 4 years ago.

Heck, sometimes I am going somewhere, in a city where I've lived for over 40 years to a place I've been scores of times and I cannot remember where to go. I have to get off the road until the data loads in my brain again. Fortunately, most of it still comes back. Or, I'll walk up to a door in my own house and cannot figure out what needs to happen to make it open. I just stand there and it comes back. One day I forgot how to use the can opener I've used for many years. Stuff like that that just makes you feel like an idiot.

I used to say, about a given incident or scenario - I'll never forget that.

Now I say - I hope I don't forget that.

Cheers!

VaBelle35 · ‎03-10-2010

When I go to a large parking place, like the MGM at National Harbor posted above, I put in my phone where I parked and I also count the spaces to the elevator and whatever other directions I need to find my car.

When I go to a mall, I generally park in the same place all the time, like outside Macy's since there is one at all the malls here. I usually write down what door I came in (mens, shoes, etc.)

I drive a camry and there are always 10 camry's like mine in any given parking lot in the same general area. And I have tried to get into the wrong one more than once at Costco. LOL

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Another new name Sue · ‎03-11-2010

@spiderw

It happened to me in a hospital parking lot too. There must have been thousands of cars in there, and the levels were confusing. I finally found it by activating the panic button, but it was upsetting and made me feel dumb.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@spiderw wrote:
But on the positive side, ask me about my past and I remember every detail!!!!! LOL

@spiderw

I was on a Jury Panel for a Civil Case that had every profession involved in the anatomy of the human brain. Before being on that Jury, I knew nothing about "long term versus short term" memory.

Like myself, it sounds like your long term memory, is like this was yesterday. Someone at the ice rink tells me their name? By the time they have skated 10' away, for me it's "what's his name"?

I learned a whole lot about the human brain during that 4 day trial. Now I understand the "forget why I went to X room", but can remember back to a hockey game in 1945 and players names.

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Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

Only once because I had borrorwed my son's car.

I actually called DH and said I think our car was stolen.

Thankfully his mind was sharper than my mind was that day and reminded me I didn't have OUR car.

I can imagine if I had called the police. LOL

"" Compassion is a verb."-Thich Nhat Hanh

Alter Ego · ‎03-12-2010

Almost did it a month ago. Again, the dreaded parking garage. I was going to the dentist and I always forget his suite number so I was fiddling with my phone looking for that when the elevator door quickly opened. I held the door for a gentleman I saw coming. And, lucky for me that I did that because just as we almost got to ground level, it occurred to me that I had no clue what floor I got on and I asked the man if he knew!