Thankfully it doesn’t happen too often, but forgetting where you parked your car can be an embarrassing moment, or several days, as one man in the UK recently found.
Jason Matthews, 40, ran the Manchester City Marathon on April 19 in five hours and 11 minutes and then spent an additional several hours looking for his Saab 93 Sport.
He said he couldn’t recall where he had parked the vehicle.
He walked back around some of the 26-mile – nearly 42km - course, before driving around in a taxi for 40 minutes an
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