Where is My Car?

Today, I leave work and start walking towards the garage where my car is parked, and realize that I have no clue where my car is parked. Usually I make a mental note, when I park my car in the morning, where I park it. This morning, I failed to do that. Knowing that I usually park on level 4 or 5, with level 5 being the highest level, at least I will only have to go up two levels. So, I get off on level 4 and start to walk around trying to figure out the direction I might have parked. I turn to the right of the parking level and begin looking.

This is a little upsetting, because usually I have some idea. Today, my mind is blank. I look all around me, but no car. Than I think "maybe I didn't park on level 4 or 5, maybe I parked on level 3." "No," I think. "It had to be level 4 or 5."

I start walking to the other side of level 4 and I run into a friend and co-worker and I tell her that I have lost my car. She laughs, and says, "That's why I always park in the same place. I always park on level 5." I point out to her that if that is so why is she on level 4. She says,"Well most of the time I park on level 5," I have now walked past her, getting ready to walk up to level 5 when she points to the car next to hers and says, "Hey, Jana, because that's my name, isn't that your car." Sure enough, there was my car. Did I feel like an idiot? Yes, but at least I was an idiot with my car.

And this story reminds me of the time a co-worker believed that she had driven to work, many times she takes the bus, so both of us were working late. We walked to the parking lot and I asked her where her car was. As she walked off the elevator and towards the parking garage, she exclaimed, "Holly Shit, I took the bus today."

I enjoyed a great laugh at her expense until I realized that I had to drive her an hour to an hour and a half out of my way to where she had caught her bus. She lived at one end of the valley and I lived at the other end.

So forgetting where you parked your car, or thinking you have driven it to find out you haven't, can give you a good laugh if you allow it to.

Jana Ruth Author of Laugh and Live Happier: P.L.A.Y.S. for Life
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