Dad's Getting Old
He lost his truck in the Farm & Fleet parking lot.
He comes out with a cart. Swears the truck is gone. Can't find it anywhere. He goes back in and tells them at the front desk. They call the police. While waiting, the manager goes back out with him to have another look.
Yeah you know how this story is going to end.
They find it.
He swears it was parked in a different spot and facing the other direction. I say he is so used to parking in the same spot, that if he drives into the parking spot, he gets all "confused" when he comes out 20 minutes later.
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He comes out with a cart. Swears the truck is gone. Can't find it anywhere. He goes back in and tells them at the front desk. They call the police. While waiting, the manager goes back out with him to have another look.
Yeah you know how this story is going to end.
They find it.
He swears it was parked in a different spot and facing the other direction. I say he is so used to parking in the same spot, that if he drives into the parking spot, he gets all "confused" when he comes out 20 minutes later.
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Sounds like alzheimers to me. My grandmother had it and my great-aunt had it, not a good thing to go through. Hope he just had a bad day and isn't developing it. 0 -
Naw, he's just getting stupid. 0 -
I've swore one time that my car had been stolen.
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He left the truck running while he was feeding cattle. My sister was tempted to turn it around while he was at the silo.
We're not gonna let this go quickly.0 -
I was at the store in the middle of the night last night and was there for quite some time. while I was there they closed the entrance that I came in and when I left I was thinking I need a big bright balloon tied to my car to make it stand out. It took a couple moments of walking lanes for it to dawn on me that I was parked clear across the parking lot. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
Naw, he's just getting stupid.
Good to hear, I couldn't tell if it was a joke or serious.0 -
quote:Naw, he's just getting stupid.
Was he stupid years ago when he changed your *hitty diapers and wiped your snotty nose? That's not a very nice thing to say about your father....[:(!][:(!] Of course......IMHO. [^][^]
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We all tend to lose a little short term memory when we get older. It may also be demetia (the latest name for getting old and forgetsome, and which is emphatically not the same as Alzheimers. In the days before written records, the old were the only source of what was done before and how it was done. They were the histoic records of the people. There was selective pressure to retain long term memory late in life, and much less to retain short term memory (even the kids knew what happened last week. Get him some sort of hi-viz marker for his antenna tip. 0 -
He-dog got it right,I lived in a building with alot of old folks for
years and they all had some sort of marker on there car or antenna
they were fine just confused, all cars look alike.0 -
Let us all hope that your father is just not quite as young as he once was. Alzheimers is a terrible disease. My mother passed away in Dec. Had it for a while. For the last couple of years she had gotten to the point we could no longer care for her and she was in a "good" nursing home (if there is such). Really hope you are not facing that situation with your father. Enjoy every day that he has left and can still communicate with you. 0 -
In crowded parking lots, I've used the panic button on that key thingy to find my vehicle. Works pretty good.[:D] 0 -
Happened to my dad a few months ago. Mom had been flown Flight for Life to Ft. Collins and Pop drove the 95 miles to be at her side. He took up residence at a local motel and one morning, simply mistook his parking place for another. Needless to say, he was really embarrassed to tell the nice policeman that he had simply made a mistake and nobody had actually stolen his Buick.
The cop was totally professional about it, according to Pop. He (the cop) understood that my dad had simply had a long couple of days. Pop can be awfully judgemental about other police officer's professionalism, but he was impressed and grateful that this young mas was a pro.0 -
My grandma told me that in St. Louis, there was a car someone reported "stolen" cause it wasnt there when they came out of the ball game, and 1 month later the cops found it 2 blocks over.. HAHA 0 -
Had almost the same thing happen to me once, and I ain't all THAT old. Came out of Wal-Mart looking for my jeep. Couldn't find that dang thing anywhere. Looked and looked, walked up and down all the parking aisles. Still didn't see it. After about 45 minutes, and ALMOST calling the police to report it stolen, I realized I had driven my wife's van instead. My excuse was that the jeep key fob and the dodge key fob look exactly alike. Once I realized my mistake, walked right to the van! [8)] 0 -
....I did that about about 10 years ago. That would put me in my early 40's. There was a cop that I knew at the supermarket and told her my truck had been stolen. I got a real strange look when I realized that I'd just bought a new truck, and was looking for the old one. [8] 0 -
dont waste one moment. take your dad right now to be screened for dementia. im serious. they have drugs and treatment for it these days. history was a little late in my dads case, but you have a chance. please....please.....do it right away. its not a funny thing to witness. thanks.[^] 0 -
When I worked at the airport I would write down the floor and space I parked my truck in.
I looked for it over an hour one night.
Finally found it on the 6th floor not the 4 floor I had written down.
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quote:Originally posted by iluvguns
Had almost the same thing happen to me once, and I ain't all THAT old. Came out of Wal-Mart looking for my jeep. Couldn't find that dang thing anywhere. Looked and looked, walked up and down all the parking aisles. Still didn't see it. After about 45 minutes, and ALMOST calling the police to report it stolen, I realized I had driven my wife's van instead. My excuse was that the jeep key fob and the dodge key fob look exactly alike. Once I realized my mistake, walked right to the van! [8)]
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quote:Originally posted by tapwater
....I did that about about 10 years ago. That would put me in my early 40's. There was a cop that I knew at the supermarket and told her my truck had been stolen. I got a real strange look when I realized that I'd just bought a new truck, and was looking for the old one. [8]
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