http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006430117,00.html
Car found after seven months
By JOHN TROUP
September 16, 2006
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MOTORIST Eric King has been reunited with his car — seven months after FORGETTING where he parked it.
Absent-minded Eric, 57, left his black X-reg Ford Focus in a space in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, last February so he could walk into the town centre.
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When I go strange places and park my car, I always write down where. A friend of mine did this in college, (I know prestigious amounts of beer were consumed), and forgot where he parked in NYC. All he knew was that he got a free space. (Scary part was that his date — now wife — who doesn’t drink — didn’t remember either!) Luckily this was in the days before the aggressive tow away program. (Just as well he didn’t find it. Something bad could have happened — dui, accident, fatality) So, later the next day, when he was sober, he got his brother to cruise in a search pattern until he found it. (Hmm, maybe there is an invention here; a “car call home” feature like an errant teenager!). Any way since that incident, which was hysterical, I always write down where I park my car. I don’t want to have to eat crow since I berated him badly at the time, laughed at repeatedly over the years, and remind him of it often.
This fellow tops my griend and apparently no dringking involved. At least my freind, who will remain nameless, but you know who you are, had an excuse.
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