Wrong Way Corrigan Had Nothing on Me

by Frank on June 9, 2009

I couldn’t find my car in the parking lot at the Wilmington Amtrak station tonight. I spent 10 minutes walking around the garage thinking, ‘Gee, I don’t remember angled parking.” But it was early when I parked my car this morning. Finally, I gave up and walked to the office.

“I seem to have misplaced my car,” I told the attendant.

“Let me see your ticket,” he said. I thought maybe they cataloged the cars during the day.

“That in the parking garage on the other side of the highway,” he said.

[Blush]

You’d have to know the Wilmington station. It’s small. really small. And I remembered — belatedly — that I didn’t have to walk outside to get into the station. The one I went to required me to cross two major streets. Plus, I even tried to prepay my parking by using an automated machine. I put my ticket stub in three times to no avail. My thinking — hey, the machine must be malfunctioning. Never occurred to me that I was in a completely wrong garage.

Ugh. My sense of direction rivals Wrong Way Corrigan. Good thing my talk went well. It didn’t require me to give directions.

{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

albert June 10, 2009 at 1:49 am

did you used to take a cellphone photo of your parking location? what happened to that plan?

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Frank June 10, 2009 at 10:22 am

I always do that….except yesterday…I was nuts. It’s exactly why I do it…my plan failed.

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Sarcasmom June 10, 2009 at 7:15 am

There's an app for that. When stuff like that happens to me, and it does , I convince myself that it is because I have so much going on that I have simply exceeded my brain's capacity for storing information. it sounds better than “I forgot”. I liked your idea of taking a photo of the marker in the garage. But I have yet to do it.

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Frank June 10, 2009 at 10:23 am

Fail on my part. I didn't take the picture. Yikes.

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Sheryl Roche June 10, 2009 at 3:38 pm

You didn't tell me that story last night! Were you afraid that I would say -”Frank!”

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Tami June 10, 2009 at 4:30 pm

The Wrong way Corrigan reference made me think of the time Gilligan's island did the spoof on him with “Wrong way Feldman”…what a great episode! Haven't thought of that in years..thanks for jogging my memory on that bit of nostalgia!

http://www.tv.com/Gilligan%27s+Island/Wrongway+...

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Frank June 10, 2009 at 5:20 pm

You got it. I told you the part about the train going slowly, but was too
hot and tired to talk about not finding my car. ;-)

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Frank June 10, 2009 at 5:20 pm

I LOVED Wrong Way Feldman. That is too funny.

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kevin goen June 16, 2009 at 1:06 pm

hi frank
i stumbled across this web page and wanted to touch base. its been a long time since the good old unimark days. reading your bio you and cheryl have been quite successful. send me an email when you get a chance . i would like to catch up.

kevin goen

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