Subj : Re: Tavels
To   : DALLAS VINSON
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Thu Jun 25 2020 06:57:54

  Dallas wrote --

> Have you been to Chattanooga and Lookout Mt?

  Nope.  I would like to do that some day.
  I was in Memphis last year, which is a whole story unto itself.
  In short, I arrived one Saturday morning, visited the riverside park and
then into downtown, found a place to park and visited a couple of places.
  I decided to stay over a second day since so much more I wanted to see.
  I went back to where I had parked the car and it was gone.
  I asked a cop if it had been towed for an expired meter and told no.
  My next thought was it was stolen and filed a police report.
  It was a rental so I could get another and home, but everything would
need to be replaced, all I had was the clothes on my back, and generally
feeling sorry for myself.
   I spent hours looking for the car, denying it was stolen, it was
somewhere, etc.
   Sunday morning I found a rental office that opened at noon.
   I went out looking for it again and found a map of downtown at a
streetcar stop and re-traced my steps.  I then found I had not parked on the street
I thought, but a side street.
   I finally found it, but not where I thought it was.
   Had to call the police I had found it, fill out another report, etc.
   My idea of staying another day changed and I was out of town.
   That was my Memphis Misadventure which gets a lot of laughs when I tell
it.
   On this last trip if I were parked where there were no landmarks I took
a picture of the area, in case this happened again and hope some kindhearted
native would take pity on me and tell me where to go.  To find the car that
that.  :)
   Joe
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