Does anyone know if there's such thing as an illness that makes you chronically forget where you parked your vehicle in a parking lot? Cause if there is-- I have it.
Seriously, I don't think I could tally up the minutes of my life that I've wasted wandering aimlessly around a crowded parking lot, wishing for the hundredth time that I had automatic car locks, so I could just push a button on my keys and listen for that "Beep beep!" My car is bright blue too, so one would think that would help me spot it, but when you're like me and always somehow end up three or four rows away from where you actually parked, color doesn't matter in the slightest.
I'm pretty sure that the actual act of forgetting happens immediately when I walk through the doors of whatever grocery store, or restaurant, or establishment that I happen to be at. By then I'm too preoccupied with my errand to realize it. The worst part is that "Oh no" feeling that you get the second you exit the building and that giant blacktop tundra spreads out before your eyes. Your breathing increases and your palms become a little sweaty, making the plastic bags in your grip slip a little. You squint your eyes and take two steps to the left...but then change your mind and take two steps to the right, but then you just stop again in your tracks.
You know the people exiting the store behind you are snickering and whispering to each other "I bet she can't remember where she parked," so you decide to just pick a row and search, hoping that a car, ANY CAR, will trigger your memory. Your gaze falls upon another lost soul wandering around the parking lot, but the fact that she is always a white-haired old woman makes you feel really stupid. Finally, though, just when you're CONVINCED that someone has stolen your car while you were inside buying orange juice and batteries, there it is: your car, your precious car, sitting of course, three or four rows away. Thank goodness you are like me and are really self-conscious about your parking skills, so you park way in the back of the lot, or you could have been searching for hours.
Discovery Channel should make a show about an Australian guy who hunts down cars for people in crowded parking lots. Kind of like a mix between Parking Wars and Dog the Bounty Hunter. Any suggestions as to what they should call it?
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