Met a guy named BOB today...we found his car! YAY!
This afternoon.....I finally decided to face the music and GO GET GROCERIES for our Christmas get together. Everything takes up so much room, so I always wait until the last minute to deal with this sort of thing.
So, I get to Publix and there is this tiny man standing in the middle of the traffic lane in front of the doors of the store. He's SO in the way.....cars weaving around him and him just kind of standing there. I carefully get around him and park. When I get to the front of the store he is up by the doors just looking as confused as he could be.
I stop and put my hand out.....he shakes it and I say "I noticed you were out in the parking lot and now you are up here....is there anything I can help you with?" He says he cannot find his car. I ask if I might help him look. He tells me to guess how old he is (I am trying to not be silly and say ONE THOUSAND YEARS OLD which is really hard for me) and I say 75. He giggles and says ADD TWENTY FIVE TO THAT!
So, me and the 100 year old man are looking for a car. We walk around for a bit and I decide it might be safer just to ride him around. I coax him to my Traverse and we start going up and down each lane. He said his car is green....but it looks black.....he thinks he parked it facing toward the store.....he can't remember the kind of car it is.....but he thinks its something like a "Spitzter"......he is the sweetest thing and I'm happy to ride him around.
We finally spot the car!!! YAY! So, Bob is safe. I saw him drive away.....so all ended well.
So, I get to Publix and there is this tiny man standing in the middle of the traffic lane in front of the doors of the store. He's SO in the way.....cars weaving around him and him just kind of standing there. I carefully get around him and park. When I get to the front of the store he is up by the doors just looking as confused as he could be.
I stop and put my hand out.....he shakes it and I say "I noticed you were out in the parking lot and now you are up here....is there anything I can help you with?" He says he cannot find his car. I ask if I might help him look. He tells me to guess how old he is (I am trying to not be silly and say ONE THOUSAND YEARS OLD which is really hard for me) and I say 75. He giggles and says ADD TWENTY FIVE TO THAT!
So, me and the 100 year old man are looking for a car. We walk around for a bit and I decide it might be safer just to ride him around. I coax him to my Traverse and we start going up and down each lane. He said his car is green....but it looks black.....he thinks he parked it facing toward the store.....he can't remember the kind of car it is.....but he thinks its something like a "Spitzter"......he is the sweetest thing and I'm happy to ride him around.
We finally spot the car!!! YAY! So, Bob is safe. I saw him drive away.....so all ended well.
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So sweet of you. Thanks for helping Bob.
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quote:Originally posted by Locust Fork
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I saw him drive away.....so all ended well.
Does not compute.0 -
But did he remember where he lives? 0 -
You have to worry about him a little, but he was pretty zippy and not at all afraid or weary acting. He darted around the parking lot like a grey haired squirrel when he got going.
The car ended up being a Grand Marquis. I figure the whole holiday madness of the place was to blame for most of the confusion.0 -
Good work!
I hope he remembered where he parked his house,0 -
quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
So sweet of you. Thanks for helping Bob.
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nice of you congrats 0 -
You just passed a test given from above [;)], apparently quite a few failed by ignoring the friendly help needed by him.....and it's Christmas to boot [:(] 0 -
Hopefully he remembered where he parked his house. 0 -
You are a real Sweetheart.
Thank you for Bob, from me.
Pretty sad everyone else just ignored him.0 -
quote:Originally posted by 84Bravo1
Pretty sad everyone else just ignored him.
So true today.
Thank God you were there to help him.
RESPECT!0 -
There are gifts, and then there are gifts. Proud of you, sweetie. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
There are gifts, and then there are gifts. Proud of you, sweetie.
Me too! Ya done good, Kasey, and the world would be a lot better place if we had more folks like you.[^]0 -
Time to give up the car and the license. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
Time to give up the car and the license.
That's all good, until it is you.0 -
Please don't be so quick to judge. I've forgotten where I parked a number of times and I'm only 77, but have never forgotten where I live. More info is needed before making that judgment. Lighten up, gentlemen: there is more to old age than numbers. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by yonson
Please don't be so quick to judge. I've forgotten where I parked a number of times and I'm only 77, but have never forgotten where I live. More info is needed before making that judgment. Lighten up, gentlemen: there is more to old age than numbers.
Speaking for myself, I know what you mean. I was was just saying I hope the old boy hasn't got that far down that road yet and can still get out and about, and get back home. He probably usually goes to the grocery when it's not that busy and parks more or less in the same place. Busy, crowded day got him out of step.0 -
My wife needed to get something at Walmart earlier this week and I remained in the car waiting on her while she went in. I was amazed at how many people that came out of the store that didn't know where their car was parked. In the short time I was parked there I counted 8 people that was wondering around the parking lot looking for their car and this was at just one of the store exits. And they all, everyone of them, had one thing in common. Need I say more? 0 -
It seems like there are a LOT of the same looking cars now. I don't know how many times I've been walking toward a silver thing thinking it was mine to find mine was one isle over. I'm VERY CLOSE to wrapping a fake flower of some kind to my luggage rack just to cut out the mystery. 0 -
Summer is easier for me. That's when I have my kayak loading racks on top. Just look for the white Highlander with wheels on the roof!
In winter, you might see me walking around pressing my unlock remote and hoping to hear the beeps! (And the hearing part is getting dodgier every year, too!)0 -
Whenever I can I try to make it easy on folks. For instance, when I see a vehicle in the parking lot that looks like mine, I park right beside it so they don't go to the wrong one.
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I lost my car in the airport parking once.
I left the parking stub in the car, and I guess a weekend was too long to remember the layout of the lot.
I wish some hot chick in a Camaro Traverse had helped me.
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What kind of car did it turn out to be? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by B17-P51
What kind of car did it turn out to be?
It was a Grand Marquis0 -
quote:Originally posted by 84Bravo1
quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
Time to give up the car and the license.
That's all good, until it is you.
Oh I'll be long dead before that'll ever happen to me.0 -
If age were the major consideration, the man who ushers at a downtown Minneapolis church ought to be told. He's been doing it SINCE 1938! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by yonson
If age were the major consideration, the man who ushers at a downtown Minneapolis church ought to be told. He's been doing it SINCE 1938!
Can't kill a man ushering someone to a seat.0 -
God Bless you L\F! [:)] 0
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