One would think that a modern savvy young person would remember that phones have cameras on them, and you can also drop GPS waypoints on Google. I've used both of these tricks frequently when I have to park well away from a venue, or I will be on a long trip and have to park somewhere other than my normal spot.
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One would think that a modern savvy young person would remember that phones have cameras on them, and you can also drop GPS waypoints on Google. I've used both of these tricks frequently when I have to park well away from a venue, or I will be on a long trip and have to park somewhere other than my normal spot.
Yeah me too. But he had a Bernie sticker on the back of the car. Explains it all.
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It was pre-GPS and smart phone but I remember getting so hammered one night in college that I forgot I drove and walked backed to the dorm (I guess one tiny grain of self-preservation was working). Took me nearly an hour to find it the next day.
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Posts: 3718 | Location: W. Central NH | Registered: October 05, 2008
Well, I lost my car for almost three days (four really). This was pre smart phone, heck only rich people had mobile phones at the time, big bricks in a bag.
My buddy was getting married. I parked my car in a "safe spot", down the road.
I knew that there was going to be alot of drinking, so I arrange transportation. I woke up the next day still drunk, so I just chilled that day, but the next day another buddy took me to where I thought I parked my car. It wasn't there! We looked all over the place! Two days later another buddy called me and said that he found my car, it was in the"safe spot" behind the dumpster in an alley behind the bank!
Everywhere in the area was a tow away zone, it was the only place that was out of the way and not visible to the businesses around.
Needless to say, my buddy that found my car came and picked me up and took me to my long lost ride.
I along with quite a few of the wedding party was, shall we say inebriated. It was one hell of a party, I only remember parts of it. Only two times in my life was I like that, that wedding and in highschool on vacation in Florida with this same friend and his older brother.
I'm embarrassed to say I lost my Ridgeline at the NRA convention last summer in Louisville at the fairgrounds, a venue I've been frequenting weekly for the past 50 years. A pal saw us wandering and drove my wife and I up and down the lot for about 30 minutes before we found it. Both my wife and I just knew we couldn't have parked that far away. We did.
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An airport parking garage renumbered the floors mid week and confused travelers were unable to locate their vehicles when they returned from their trip. There were no signs posted to notify returning travelers that Floor 2 was now Floor 3.
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I flew back in from a business trip and couldn't rember what remote parking service I had used. Just stood on the curb watching the buses come by til finally, I recognized it!
Dumbass.
Posts: 1579 | Location: South Carolina | Registered: August 06, 2009
Originally posted by BigWhup: I flew back in from a business trip and couldn't rember what remote parking service I had used. Just stood on the curb watching the buses come by til finally, I recognized it!
Dumbass.
Don't those things give you a ticket going so that they know where your car is parked when you come back?
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Originally posted by Rey HRH: [QUOTE]Originally posted by BigWhup: I flew back in from a business trip and couldn't rember what remote parking service I had used. Just stood on the curb watching the buses come by til finally, I recognized it!
Dumbass.[/QUOTE Don't those things give you a ticket going so that they know where your car is parked when you come back?
Not at this one. You just drive in, pick a spot to park, and hop on the bus. Pay when you get back.
Posts: 1579 | Location: South Carolina | Registered: August 06, 2009
Originally posted by Otto Pilot: One would think that a modern savvy young person would remember that phones have cameras on them, and you can also drop GPS waypoints on Google. I've used both of these tricks frequently when I have to park well away from a venue, or I will be on a long trip and have to park somewhere other than my normal spot.
My Apple SE automatically records where I park and features a Compass Widget to help guide you back to it. A feature I found very useful recently when I paid a visit to a local Apple store located in a terribly trendy outdoor mall that wasn't laid out with any concern at all for navigation back to the distinctly remote parking lots.
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Posts: 5789 | Location: Michigan | Registered: November 07, 2008
Originally posted by Haveme1or2: I lost my truck in the 70's in New Orleans at one of the "Days of Rock and Roll". Found it 2 day later .... Way before cell & pc's. I was so happy to see it still there on one hand, sad that it wasn't worth stealing on the other ! (Man I'm glad I don't have to keep that kind of pace up anymore !)
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