When I took Drivers Ed, the most-feared lesson was parallel parking. Turn signals I could manage. Checking blind spots? No problem. But we all dreaded parallel parking. It actually turned out to be a lot easier than I expected (especially easy if you drive a Jeep), but I never would have guessed that for some people, finding the parked car would be harder than actually parking the car. World Magazine reports this funny story:

“One British man forgot where he parked his car and just recently found it after a seven-month search. Eric King, 57, parked his car on a residential side street in Suffolk in February. When he come back to retrieve his Ford Focus, he couldn’t find it. THe man returned 10 times from his home over 60 miles away to serch for the auto. Eventually residents on the street got suspicious and reported the abandoned car to the authorities, who then alerted King.”

Moral: pay attention to where you park.

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