not a good way to start your monday:
- get ready for work;
- pack everything you need, lunch, etc.;
- walk out to parking lot to get car;
- discover that car is not where it was when you parked it last night at 11:30 after filling the tank — and have absolutely no uncertainty that you might have parked elsewhere, because that’s Your Spot.
there are two possibilities that come before the bad, obvious one:
- the parking lot management people moved my car; or
- the police impounded the car because of that time a year and a half ago i reported it stolen and was subsequently unable to report it un-stolen because they couldn’t find any record of it ever having been reported stolen, but maybe now they found the record of it having been stolen and towed it.
i think (1) is pretty unlikely. i had my january monthly permit displayed, it’s an unattended lot, and they’ve never even so much as put a reminder notice on my car on days when i’ve forgotten to put the permit up. i called and left a message with them, nonetheless.
i’m hoping for (2). there’s just one problem: i cannot remember my license plate number.i don’t know what the hell is the matter with me. i just can’t think of what it is. 42-something-8?
i was going to go to work and deal with it there, but when i realized i was drawing an utter, unbreakable blank on the plate number i came straight back home to go through my files. and i still cannot find it. it’s not on my insurance paperwork, and the plate registration is obviously in the car. it’d be on my city sticker paperwork but that’s in the car too. fuck me. why can’t i remember my license plate number??? my poor baby car! …well, i think it’s 4268. i’m going to call 311 and hope like hell the police can help me out, based on the previous report.
