I had to travel for work recently. I don’t have to do this often so it still has some novelty involved.<\/p>\n
I have a few traditions for these trips. I try to sample as many local beers as I can. I have at least one room service dinner. And I always take good notes on where I parked my car at the airport.<\/p>\n
I have good reason to worry about this issue. For this, like most things, I blame my brothers.<\/p>\n
My brother Kevin took me to my first-ever concert. I will never forget that night. We drove down to the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and saw the Go-Go\u2019s and The Police.<\/p>\n
At the time, the Go-Go\u2019s, the opening act, had the number one album in the country. The Police had the second-best selling record. (If you are sharing this with your kids, take a moment now to explain what an album is to them and how it used to be a really prestigious thing to be at the top of the charts.)<\/p>\n
I loved every minute of the night. Well, every minute until we had to leave. You see, the concert followed a blizzard so it was pretty easy to forget where you parked at the Capital Centre since one mound of snow looked like another.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t say we were the last ones to find our car, but we walked around for a really long time before we could head home. I never wanted to do that again.<\/p>\n
Two years later, I went to Los Angeles for the Summer Olympics with my brothers Eddie and Dennis. We went mainly to see wrestling, but caught several other events, including a soccer game at the Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n
The venerable stadium has a really small parking lot so not everyone can get a space. But it is surrounded by a golf course, giving everyone a place to park. Have you ever parked on a golf course in the daylight and then tried to find your car in the evening?<\/p>\n
Yeah, this didn\u2019t go too well. We saw a rousing game and then came out to the realization that we had no idea where we had parked. I vaguely remember a sand trap nearby and probably a green. In reality, I had no clue.<\/p>\n
So we split up to search for the rental car. I remember wandering aimlessly through the golf course when I suddenly heard my name. I followed the sound and eventually came upon my brothers. Eddie found the car, drove around yelling until he found Dennis. Then they did the same to find me.<\/p>\n
But I don\u2019t have that kind of backup at the airport. I have to put a note in my phone to remind me the section where I parked my car. I also need to note the shuttle stop where I need to get off in order to find the car.<\/p>\n
One day someone will hopefully invent something where you can pinpoint the GPS location of your car wherever you leave it. I bet that guy is wandering around a parking lot right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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