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RE: FunnyMemoriesChallenge WEEK 2-Introducing week 1 winners (4 Weeks 500SP Delegation+ free sbd to be won)

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Congratulations to the other winners and thank you for my 3rd place! As I almost never win anything, the happier I am now! :D :D :D
I'll try to participate in upcoming challenges too! THANK YOU! (Upvote & Resteem)


My Street Experience
When I was twenty one , I decided to go on a holiday alone with my car and a tent. Destination was Corsica (a French island), which meant I had to drive from Vienna to Livorno in Italy to catch a Ferry I had previously booked.

I arrived some hours early in Livorno and decided to take a tour of the town. I parked my car and off I went. I spent awesome two hours in the City, drinking coffee and taking photos, until I decided it was time to head off to the ferry. - And then it occured to me: I had NO IDEA where I had parked my CAR!!!! Literally NO IDEA!!! -

F**k!!! What do I do now. My Ferry will be leaving soon and I do not have a car nor luggage.

I tried to stay calm and remember everything I could about my parking place, so I found out that it was near kind of a market beside a river. I started to run around the city searching for a map so that I could combine these two informations. (Note: We are in a pre google maps mobile internet time here.) Unfortunately they didn't have maps in bus stops there, so I had to find a bookstore, where I described my problem and they helped me search the map until we located a spot that matched my memories. I bought the map and used it to navigate back to that place as fast as I could. (Time was running, as my ferry was about to leave soon.)

End of the story: It was the right spot, we had found on the map. My fragmentary memories brought me back to my car and I reached the ferry on time and could pass a wonderful holiday in corsica.

Since then I've always remembered where I parked my car... :D :D (And technical possibilies are better now. I normaly take a foto of the road sign with the iPhone, so I have the name of the road and my iPhone has the coordinates.)

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That's a funny spot to be in. I felt your nervousness lol. Reminds me of the stories from security guards that have had to help guest find their cars in the mall. What kind of car is it. .... Well its grey lol :)

Lol...i understand how nervous you must have been. At least you learnt something though.