@jqubed I said once a week or so, and it’s at this level. I’ve only maybe twice been like “dang my car is nowhere near here. Where DID I park?!?!” In 33 years of driving, that’s not bad."
Once, I picked up a rental car, at night, after a 10 hr flight. Didn’t notice the color or make of the vehicle. Drove to a mall to pick up provisions before going to the hotel. Came out of the shopping mall. Had no idea where I parked or what I was driving. The key had no remote. I had enter on tiered parking level and exited on a different tier than I had entered. Talk about trouble! I had been up almost 24 hours with no sleep and ended up having to wait until the mall closed so the cars to pick from in the 500 acre parking lot were manageable. All in it was a three hour process to find my car. Embarrassed to this day to speak of this. But meh got it out of me.
Lost the new car quite a bit to start with since I was so used to looking for the old car. It took awhile for me to remember I drove the blue Cruze and not the beige Taurus.
I know where I parked but sometimes the parking lot is so big that I cannot remember the exact slot.
My latest vehicle has this PinGo type feature built-in. I just run the app from the manufacturer and it will place a pin on the map of the last known location of the car. Had the new car since November 2016 and have never used that feature except to test it.
I only truly forgot once. It was in the universal studios parking garage. My phone was pretty broken so I didn’t take a photo of the location like I normally do. After being on the rides all day, I could only remember which of the six sections we were in, but not the floor. It only took around 15-20 minutes of me running up and down escalators and the rows because we were parked pretty far from the escalator.
I left my poor mom to stand in one place because she recently had knee surgery and it was a nightmare going up any kind of steps.
It felt like forever, to the point where I was worried the car was stolen. Lucky it was towards the end of the day, otherwise it would of taken way longer.
I have no idea why I didn’t use the panic button to help me find it, lol
We were at Tyson’s Corner Mall in Northern Virginia, New Year’s Eve a couple of years ago. At the end of the night, just before the mall closed, we went to leave and realized my wife didn’t have her keys to the van. She normally kept them on a lanyard around her neck, but had taken it off and set it down for some reason and, long story short, we were pretty sure it had gone into the garbage in the food court.
But I had my keys, so we were still fine, right? Wrong! We realized we had been there so long that we had no idea where in the multilevel garage that spanned one entire side of the mall we had parked. So off I went to find the van while my wife tried to keep our two kids (then 6.5 and 4 years old) entertained while hanging out in the foyer of an anchor store that was closing up for the night.
I think it took me a good hour at least. The signal from the key fob wouldn’t go through the garage floors, so I had to be on the right level and close enough. Finally I hit on the idea of going to the center, where there was a gap that (I figured, and apparently I was right) would let the signal hit the next level down from where I was. Keeping this short again, I did eventually find the van, but the whole time I was looking for it, I couldn’t call them to let them know what was going on because my phone was at 1% and I didn’t want it to die (which it ultimately did anyway) before I found it, just in case they needed to call me (like if they were getting kicked out of the store).
Ultimately we got home at midnight, after an hour and a half drive home from a mall that closed at 9 PM.
What a horrorshow that was. Since that day I always note down in my phone where I am in any multilevel garage or large parking lot.
@jqubed Nope. And the lanyard they were attached to was the one she got her first year of college, before her college had changed its name (meaning replacement was basically impossible).
wow, you said newton in the description. that’s like from about 25 years ago now! every once in a while i remember the alpha model of the iPhone that was sold before it had any phone capabilities, like fifteen years before the iPhone really was sold. we had probably four of them in our lab, two different models. i believe they cost way more that the iPhone 8 supposedly will cost and they were like pieces of shit, really kinda worthless. (well that was just cruel.)
@bayportbob
I remember reading that the first digital watches were cost in the tens of thousands. Now they are given out with children’s fast food menu items.
New technology is always expensive, but even more so if that item has not been released to the general public yet.
@narfcake 16K RAM with the memory expansion cart. 2K onboard without it. (Wrote my first game in BASIC on one of those things - target shooter with a light gun controller, sprite animation, and music. Good times… )
@narfcake
$525 in 1981 equals $1,438.88 in 2016.
Can you imagine paying so much for something that would eventually become practically free.
But then again, we are probably doing the same now.
@PlacidPenguin I bought like 10 TeeTurtle shirts in the past week already, including catshirts! And that’s not even including any new ones from their birthday sale!
(I have yet to unblame @ELUNO on them yet. I suppose I could preemptively blame him that the catshirts came with free cat hair, though.)
Here’s a tip if you forget where you parked your car at the airport: they log the location of every single license plate in the parking lot and can tell you exactly where your car is. Of course if you don’t know your license plate, may god have mercy on your soul.
I don’t drive, but whenever I’m with someone else, I dread whenever they say, “I’ll meet you at the car” because I rarely pay any attention to where we parked.
Once, about two years ago, we flew to another city and left the car at the airport, 50 feet from the elevator. When we came back, couldn’t locate the car. After searching for half an hour, we found it on a different level.
My car doesn’t make noise when I press the lock button OR the alarm button. It was never altered fully from its previous life as a cop car in Florida.
Thankfully, Google Now gives me a card to Google Maps with an approximate location to where I parked. I just walk until my blue dot is by the location shown and then walk around a little bit more.
So… I don’t have a car, but my mom and dad do. (I’m 16.) My mom goes on these huge shopping trips sometimes and OF COURSE she has to park her car in the middle of the parking lot, not on the end row, so there we are about twice, three times a year, looking all over every row for the car. The sad thing: It’s usually me that finds it. When it is in plain sight.
I rarely park in lots big enough to lose a car, but to give myself a fighting chance I take a picture of nearby landmarks (or actual sign marks if they exist) with my phone.
Last time I did that I still had my flip phone. It was easier to take the pictures than to find them on the damn phone when I needed them.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so far off I couldn’t just keep hitting the lock button and walking in the general direction until I hear the car honk.
@jqubed I said once a week or so, and it’s at this level. I’ve only maybe twice been like “dang my car is nowhere near here. Where DID I park?!?!” In 33 years of driving, that’s not bad."
Once, I picked up a rental car, at night, after a 10 hr flight. Didn’t notice the color or make of the vehicle. Drove to a mall to pick up provisions before going to the hotel. Came out of the shopping mall. Had no idea where I parked or what I was driving. The key had no remote. I had enter on tiered parking level and exited on a different tier than I had entered. Talk about trouble! I had been up almost 24 hours with no sleep and ended up having to wait until the mall closed so the cars to pick from in the 500 acre parking lot were manageable. All in it was a three hour process to find my car. Embarrassed to this day to speak of this. But meh got it out of me.
@accelerator Brutal! Thank you for sharing. That sounds like an absolute nightmare!
/image memory palace
Lost the new car quite a bit to start with since I was so used to looking for the old car. It took awhile for me to remember I drove the blue Cruze and not the beige Taurus.
I know where I parked but sometimes the parking lot is so big that I cannot remember the exact slot.
My latest vehicle has this PinGo type feature built-in. I just run the app from the manufacturer and it will place a pin on the map of the last known location of the car. Had the new car since November 2016 and have never used that feature except to test it.
I only truly forgot once. It was in the universal studios parking garage. My phone was pretty broken so I didn’t take a photo of the location like I normally do. After being on the rides all day, I could only remember which of the six sections we were in, but not the floor. It only took around 15-20 minutes of me running up and down escalators and the rows because we were parked pretty far from the escalator.
I left my poor mom to stand in one place because she recently had knee surgery and it was a nightmare going up any kind of steps.
It felt like forever, to the point where I was worried the car was stolen. Lucky it was towards the end of the day, otherwise it would of taken way longer.
I have no idea why I didn’t use the panic button to help me find it, lol
Worst time ever:
We were at Tyson’s Corner Mall in Northern Virginia, New Year’s Eve a couple of years ago. At the end of the night, just before the mall closed, we went to leave and realized my wife didn’t have her keys to the van. She normally kept them on a lanyard around her neck, but had taken it off and set it down for some reason and, long story short, we were pretty sure it had gone into the garbage in the food court.
But I had my keys, so we were still fine, right? Wrong! We realized we had been there so long that we had no idea where in the multilevel garage that spanned one entire side of the mall we had parked. So off I went to find the van while my wife tried to keep our two kids (then 6.5 and 4 years old) entertained while hanging out in the foyer of an anchor store that was closing up for the night.
I think it took me a good hour at least. The signal from the key fob wouldn’t go through the garage floors, so I had to be on the right level and close enough. Finally I hit on the idea of going to the center, where there was a gap that (I figured, and apparently I was right) would let the signal hit the next level down from where I was. Keeping this short again, I did eventually find the van, but the whole time I was looking for it, I couldn’t call them to let them know what was going on because my phone was at 1% and I didn’t want it to die (which it ultimately did anyway) before I found it, just in case they needed to call me (like if they were getting kicked out of the store).
Ultimately we got home at midnight, after an hour and a half drive home from a mall that closed at 9 PM.
What a horrorshow that was. Since that day I always note down in my phone where I am in any multilevel garage or large parking lot.
@kensey Did your wife find her keys?
@jqubed Nope. And the lanyard they were attached to was the one she got her first year of college, before her college had changed its name (meaning replacement was basically impossible).
@kensey That’s a shame
Google does it for me automagically. I don’t need a stinky device or app. Suck it iPhone.
Never, I have no social life and carpool to work.
How is that not an option!?
wow, you said newton in the description. that’s like from about 25 years ago now! every once in a while i remember the alpha model of the iPhone that was sold before it had any phone capabilities, like fifteen years before the iPhone really was sold. we had probably four of them in our lab, two different models. i believe they cost way more that the iPhone 8 supposedly will cost and they were like pieces of shit, really kinda worthless. (well that was just cruel.)
@bayportbob
I remember reading that the first digital watches were cost in the tens of thousands. Now they are given out with children’s fast food menu items.
New technology is always expensive, but even more so if that item has not been released to the general public yet.
@DVDBZN 3MHz, 16k RAM. $525 in 1981.
@narfcake 16K RAM with the memory expansion cart. 2K onboard without it. (Wrote my first game in BASIC on one of those things - target shooter with a light gun controller, sprite animation, and music. Good times… )
@narfcake
$525 in 1981 equals $1,438.88 in 2016.
Can you imagine paying so much for something that would eventually become practically free.
But then again, we are probably doing the same now.
@DVDBZN Crazy how much technology has changed. Look at mobile phones; the top-of-the-line as of 5 years ago versus mid-market and lower nowadays.
I paid $10 for it. Again, I still don’t know why when I could be spending it on something else use
lessful like catshirts.Which I did anyway!
@narfcake
I’ll take it off your hands for $10 + your pick of a catshirt on TT.
@narfcake Still have two of those in storage. They’re there for the Commodores & Ataris to poke fun at.
@PlacidPenguin I bought like 10 TeeTurtle shirts in the past week already, including catshirts! And that’s not even including any new ones from their birthday sale!
(I have yet to unblame @ELUNO on them yet. I suppose I could preemptively blame him that the catshirts came with free cat hair, though.)
@narfcake
How about $10 + your choice of a catshirt from catshirts.woot?
@PlacidPenguin You have my contact.
@narfcake
Just so we’re clear, we’re talking about a picture of the TI-99/4A?
@narfcake
Well?
@PlacidPenguin Well what? I’m willing to part with it and you have my email and my phone number already.
Here’s a tip if you forget where you parked your car at the airport: they log the location of every single license plate in the parking lot and can tell you exactly where your car is. Of course if you don’t know your license plate, may god have mercy on your soul.
One time in a rental, but that was it. There were about 20 white Camry’s in that parking lot!
My wife does all the time.
I don’t drive, but whenever I’m with someone else, I dread whenever they say, “I’ll meet you at the car” because I rarely pay any attention to where we parked.
My memory palace is the small number of parking lots that I park in, where I always use the same spots.
Once, about two years ago, we flew to another city and left the car at the airport, 50 feet from the elevator. When we came back, couldn’t locate the car. After searching for half an hour, we found it on a different level.
My car doesn’t make noise when I press the lock button OR the alarm button. It was never altered fully from its previous life as a cop car in Florida.
Thankfully, Google Now gives me a card to Google Maps with an approximate location to where I parked. I just walk until my blue dot is by the location shown and then walk around a little bit more.
So… I don’t have a car, but my mom and dad do. (I’m 16.) My mom goes on these huge shopping trips sometimes and OF COURSE she has to park her car in the middle of the parking lot, not on the end row, so there we are about twice, three times a year, looking all over every row for the car. The sad thing: It’s usually me that finds it. When it is in plain sight.
Unless this includes altitude, it’s not much help at the 12 level parking deck at work.
I rarely park in lots big enough to lose a car, but to give myself a fighting chance I take a picture of nearby landmarks (or actual sign marks if they exist) with my phone.
Last time I did that I still had my flip phone. It was easier to take the pictures than to find them on the damn phone when I needed them.
I pahk my cahr in Hahvahd Yahd.
/image “Harvard Yard”
@f00l huh, I always thought it was a cop station with a big parking lot. How do you park there with all that grass?
@mollama
you try to run over any intellectual who protests.