Momentary Panic

[Possegal]

I took the trolley home from work one day, got off the trolley and looked at the street in front of my apartment, didn't see my car and thought - who the heck stole my beat up old car?

Then I remembered, I drove to work that day. So my car spent the night in the parking lot at my lab.

In college once I borrowed a friends car to go to the mall quickly. Her dad was a mechanic, she always had some car or other, while 99% of us had no car. It wasn't until I was done and coming out of hte mall that I realized I never paid attention to what the heck kind of car it was. I knew the inside looked a lot like the car my father used to have. So I knew it was a dodge or plymouth. And the interior was blue. That was all I had to go on. Pre-cell phone and pre-alarm key ring, of course. I figured if I waited long enough, the mall would close and everyone would go home and there would be one car left in the lot.