Lost Truck

[Down South]

I was reading the thread about the cop car getting lost and didn't want to hijack the thread. The thread reminded me of another lost truck story.

In my position, I have many visitors "Salesmen, Company Reps" come visit me, some on regular schedules.
One guy who worked for an electric motor and generator repair business came in every Friday morning to bring in breakfast snacks.
On this particular Friday, he had just witnessed a pedestrian getting ran over at a crosswalk before parking his company truck in one of the many parking garages in downtown Houston.
He was still pretty shook up when he got to my office.
Anyway, he couldn't remember which garage he parked in. He looked all day for the truck, came back on weekends with his son and did this for a month or so.
Finally the company wrote the truck off as stolen.

About a year later the police call and say they have found the truck. It was still in the garage it was originally parked in but had been toed to the roof and had been sitting there all this time.

[lightman]

Even normally intelligent people can get shaken up and loose their wits from time to time. As I have aged I have tried to form habits. Such as having a dedicated place to unload my pockets, looking at landmarks when I park, and developing routines for locking the house and setting the alarm at night. When I park at large stores I'll remember that I'm 2 light poles West of the main door or something like that.

[jdfoxinc]

I keep trying to train myself that way. Hasn't worked in 64 years.

I never been lost. A mite confused a time or two. But if never been lost.

[nun2kute]

"I've never been lost ?" LOL I just go "Exploring" !!! But I do get a kick out of seeing someone else wandering around a parking lot with a "Lost" expression on their face, punching their remote trying to figure out where their car is.

[lightman]

I've never been lost either. Just a mite confused for 2 days and nights!

[RGrosz]

My sister who moved away from home to central Iowa, went shopping up in Waterloo one day. She was in a shopping center and walked into the building through one door. When she left it was out the door and she couldn't find her car. Finely she called the cops, sure it had been stolen. They sent a LEO out and drove her around the building to her car.
As a security guard in a mall, we would get about once a mouth a report of a stolen car and we would ride them around the parking lot till they found it. Never had a car stolen. Although once in a while the driver claimed that someone had to have moved it so they couldn't find it.
Rob
By the way, I have never been lost, powerful confused for a time but never lost

[badgeredd]

My friend defines "lost" as having to have someone find you. That works for me and so I have not been lost, only temporarily disorientated or confused...sometimes for several hours. [smilie=1: :-D

[Tatume]

More times than I can remember people have taxied up to the maintenance hanger and asked "where am I?" The hanger is 150 feel long with a full length, sheet metal, A-frame roof. In letters 20 feet tall "WEST POINT, VA" is written on the roof. It can be read from the air or from the ground.

[Gewehr-Guy]

I've never been lost, I tell myself I know exactly where I am, I'm right HERE, but sometimes takes awhile to remember where I want to be!

[lightman]

More times than I can remember people have taxied up to the maintenance hanger and asked "where am I?" The hanger is 150 feel long with a full length, sheet metal, A-frame roof. In letters 20 feet tall "WEST POINT, VA" is written on the roof. It can be read from the air or from the ground.

Ha, I have flown around until I found a water tower that I could read!

[Reverend Al]

My old boss used to say: "I've never been lost when I've been out hunting ... but twice somebody moved my truck!"

[Hogtamer]

You're not lost if you don't care where you are. I made the mistake of telling a buddy whose vast property I hunt occasionally this once, after a particularly good day with hogs in the swamp. My remark came after he asked me where I had been hunting, as it was after dark before I made it back to the house. 2 years later he had a big plaque inscribed with my quote after I spent a windy, sleety night in the swamp one January. Never live that one down.

[fatelk]

Some years ago when I was going back to school at a local community college, I ran into a friend near the parking lot. He said he'd been searching for his truck, coulnd't remember where he'd parked it. I drove him around for a while to all the parking lots to look for it. He was getting more and more worried that it had been stolen, and finally he called the police. He waited there and I went home.

I saw him a couple days later and asked if they had found his truck. He sheepishly hung his head and told me "the rest of the story". While he was waiting for the police, he called his wife to tell her what was going on. When he told her his truck had been stolen, she replied, "No it's not. It's right here in the driveway. You took my car to school today; don't you remember?"

[jonp]

I've misplaced my car on occasion but i normally park near something that I remember as a landmark. Oddly, I've never been lost in the woods having a sense of direction that let's me point north no matter the time day or night or the way back home. My great grandfather was like that. No Idea how it works but I can go out in the yard and point directly at my hunting camp 900 miles north. Sure helps as a truck driver to know what direction your traveling in.

[tommag]

Many years ago, I left my Camaro at my sister's house for an extended period of time and told her she could use it. The paint was orange peeled and she had it repainted the same color. I didn't notice that when I hopped in and went to the mall. I came out looking for a black camaro with orange peel. I had a heckuva time finding it with it's new paint.

[MaryB]

Even normally intelligent people can get shaken up and loose their wits from time to time. As I have aged I have tried to form habits. Such as having a dedicated place to unload my pockets, looking at landmarks when I park, and developing routines for locking the house and setting the alarm at night. When I park at large stores I'll remember that I'm 2 light poles West of the main door or something like that.


I am lucky, my truck is easy to find in a parking lot, 2 ham radio antennas on the box and one is over 7' tall...

[MrWolf]

When I was 17 worked at a Great Eastern store and parked my '67 GTO. Finished work went to car and gone. Looked all over, nothing. Calling friends asked them if they moved it. Nope. Am one of the lucky ones - I guess - it really was stolen. Cops said with that car no way gonna recover it.

[am44mag]

My sister who moved away from home to central Iowa, went shopping up in Waterloo one day. She was in a shopping center and walked into the building through one door. When she left it was out the door and she couldn't find her car. Finely she called the cops, sure it had been stolen. They sent a LEO out and drove her around the building to her car.
As a security guard in a mall, we would get about once a mouth a report of a stolen car and we would ride them around the parking lot till they found it. Never had a car stolen. Although once in a while the driver claimed that someone had to have moved it so they couldn't find it.
Rob
By the way, I have never been lost, powerful confused for a time but never lost

They'll never catch the car moving bandit, lol. :D

[snowwolfe]

Some people lack any common sense. When we lived in Alaska I would sell my photography to tourists in the summer at an open air market in Anchorage. From the market you had a great view of the ocean. Not a day went by when a tourist failed to ask me what elevation was Anchorage was. Often I would just point to the ocean and they still didn’t get it.

[frkelly74]

It is an odd feeling to come upon tracks in the snow that look just like yours and they are fairly fresh.

[Walla2]

My friend and I were driving to a new hunting area in another state. He was driving. After a loooong while I commented that we might be lost. He replied "perhaps but we are making great time."

[Hickory]

Seven years ago my son and I were riding cross-country on motorcycles and I wanted to camp in the Black Hills near a little dam on a stream. Well, I got turned around a bit and ended on a trail that came to an end.
My son said, "Well, we're lost!" I said, "You remember my definition of lost is, we're not lost until someone has to come and find you."
"How we getting out of here?" He said, as dusk was falling.
" We'll leave tomorrow morning." As I tossed my sleeping bag on the ground, "We camp right here till then."

[MaryB]

Back in the early 80's I was out riding with a friend and drinking a couple beers(Yes I know, illegal but we didn't get drunk). Local gravel back roads. He had issues with panic attacks and gets turned around and has a massive one. Asks me where we are and I said "You're driving,not me, I wasn't paying attention". At which point he panics even worse. I tell him to pull over, go sit on the trunk and drink a beer and let me figure it out. I am another who knows which way is north so I knew that... ahh 2 light domes, one small and one large to the south, larger one being home town. I tell him to turn the car around, and start driving and turn when I tell him too. 20 minutes later we drop out onto the river bottom road and I say go right. 5 minutes later back in town. He looked at me and asked how in the heck did you do that? I told him I knew where north was, looked for anything familiar and pointed out the light domes towns give off. Once I knew what was where it was easy to just pick roads that kept heading south and towards town.

[Hossfly]

I just follow the GPS lady and don’t get off the black top.

[tinsnips]

When I was in collage I lost my pickup a few times. It was always on the weekends.

[CLAYPOOL]

My buddy told me about the Shawnee Forest in Southern Illinois. He said he knew where he was after 2 days when he looked down and there was the candy wrapper he threw down 2 days before. Same place he was then. Still lost....

[Wayne Smith]

For us it is truly strange - when my wife and I are out driving and have to reverse our direction - coming back from a winery, for example - multiple turns coming in, etc. If she tells me to go left I will even though I 'know' I should go right - and she is always right. Go to the mall and park the car and she has no idea where it is in the parking lot - I walk right to it.

[abunaitoo]

I wasn't lost, I just couldn't find my way out.
Happened in a casino in Las Vegas.
I forget what casino it was.
I kept on walking around, and kept on ending up at the door to the back parking lot.
Don't know why. I just couldn't find my way to the front where I came in.
Of course guys will never ask for directions.
Finally saw a bell man pushing a rack with luggage.
Fallowed him to the front desk. From there I found my way to the front door.
Had a good laugh about after I got out.