How many vans are the same color

Do you know how many silver/gray Dodge Caravans there are...a bazillion!  So last night I went up to the store at the end of my street.  It's a small local IGA...not a huge megaplex.  I come out of the store with a monster jug of laundry detergent and a bag with baked potatoes and a steak in it.  I walk towards my car and start clicking the button on my key to unlock the door.  Nothing.  Again and again.  Nope.  I don't know anyting about these key fobs or whatever they are called and I am thinking the battery is dead or something.  My purse is in the car as I just took money in the store with me.  No cell phone to call the hubby for the other set.  Then I notice another woman trying to unlock her van.  Both of us are standing there swearing, and clicking buttons.  As I peer down the row of cars I then see there are SIX silver Dodge Vans parked in a row...in this small parking lot.  SIX!  Anyway, I dropped my groceries and walked over to the other  woman and told her we were  probably trying to get into each others vehicles.  Then we laughed and switched postions.  In the meantime, in what seemed like a microsecond, a young man rounding up carts saw my groceries on the ground and was taking them back in the store...so I have to chase him down.

Fibromites need vehicles that are flourescent and glow in the dark.  When we click the button, the car should yell "over here, moron."  I can't tell you how many times I have tried to get into someone else's car. I left Lowes once while the hubby wandered around forever, because my legs hurt and actually sat in someone else's  unlocked van for about a half hour.

As I always say...Oh, the Humanity!

Huggies

Donna

 

silver is the new black in cars, so they say...

Been there, done that, I am glad that the other woman was making that mistake also. Hey, great minds think alike.

I find that rental cars are the worst. at least my car is dirty enough to be identified. We are buying a new car this year and I am still trying to figure out what make and model I will purchase. I want one that I recognize easily.

Along with my face blindness, I do not recognize objects or spaces like garages and parking lots well. I felt that the worst thing about getting divorce was I would no longer have a husband who had an excellent sense of direction and who knew where we parked the car.

Donnaeil

Marlee...I never even noticed that I had a panic button on the key fob!  After you mentioned it, I looked and there it was...this tiny red sliver, that says 'Panic'.  Duh...and more duh.  I am electronically challanged!  I was driving our other car last week and all heat,air/defrost features are on one electronic panel and I couldn't turn the defroster on.  All those little symbols instead of words...Geez. That's as bad as me standing in front of two restrooms at a sea food resturant and looking at the sign on the doors...'Mates and Matees'.  What?  I assumed I am a 'Matee'.

Huggies

Donna

I have to park in the same row each time I go to the grocery store or I'll wander when I'm done shopping.

That was too funny Vest. Especially when the bag boy was carrying your groceries back to the store. I do the panic button thing when I can't find my vehicle. I have a red truck, and there are a lot of red trucks around here.

At least you weren't alone, the other woman didn't know which one was hers either.lol...

You are too funny.

Hugs, Karen

My car is silver! LOL!

It is the first car I have owned that has a panic button- I would laugh at your story Donna but I know my day is "coming" and I will probably forget I have a panic button on my keychain!

Jill

An acronym can help you remember your license plate. Of course, I haven't figured one out for my newest car yet. It is teeny and gets lost often in the parking lots behind the big vans, trucks and suvs.

Littleneck, I do the same thing - park in the same place in each lot. It makes a big difference.
Sue

If you press your keypad under your chin, then press the button, it just about doubles the range. I thought my husband was pulling my leg with this trick but it really works. Try it!

Once, I was in a parking lot and a lady a few rows over clicks her alarm, and right after, I clicked mine - they sounded the same. She stopped and looked around all confused. She clicked hers again, so I clicked mine again. We did this a few more times. At first I thought it was funny but then I realized the poor woman probably had fibro and I was confusing her.

Daisy, back when I had a brain, I helped finalize the design of the Fiero. I used to be an engineer before Lyme/fibro.

Donna,

OMG, that is so funny! The town where I live has SO many cars that are either silver or gold (in fact my mom has a gold car and my dad has a silver one, LOL) Anyway, yesterday my mom and I went to Wal-Mart in her car, and when we came out, I got so confused. I swear, there were 5 gold cars all parked together. The only way I knew which car was my mom's is because she had parked in a handicapped space!

BTW-I'm wondering if the silver/gold car phenomenon is a southern thing. Who has a silver or gold car and lives in the South? Just wondering. LOL-makes me kinda happy that my car is red!