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Skriven 2014-02-28 16:10:10 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10318 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
Ärende: Re: parking (was medical 253)
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-=> Quoting Stephen Haffly to MICHAEL LOO on 26 Feb 14  14:53:46 <=-

 NB>> It's like the parking lot syndrome... park in the same lot day after
 NB>> day, and you end up forgetting where you actually did park today...
 NB>> the mind remembers the previous spot...  ;0   Particularly true in
 NB>> hospital parking lots, where one's brain is elsewheres pre-occupied,
 ML>> Hence all the clever identifiers painted onto the garage pillars, so
 ML>> you can remember, perhaps, that you're on level green apple seven
 ML>> today (as opposed to red peach three yesterday). I hear stories of
 ML>> people who have had to be driven around by the security guard clicking
 ML>> their clickers randomly. I guess the only reliable way would be to
 ML>> write down "green apple seven" with the date and wrap the car keys in

 SH> One of the usefull apps for a smart phone uses the GPS to save the
 SH> current location of the vehicle so that one can then find the way back
 SH> to it in a parking lot. That assumes a parking lot, and not a garage
 SH> where the satellite signals can be blocked.

Most hospital parking does tend to be ramp garages... so that probably
wouldn't work for me, even if I DID have a smart phone... ;)

 SH> If one does not want to use such an app, there are "sticky note" apps
 SH> where one can make a quick note of where the car is located. If one
 SH> does not have a smart phone, then a small notebook and pen are quite
 SH> useful. 

Which goes back to his wrapping the keys in the note... but a step
safer, maybe... presuming that the notebook doesn't somehow go missing,
too... ;)

I think my main problem tends to be that when my brain is fogged enough
to forget where I am parked, I've probably also been fogged enough to
forget to make that note, mentally or physically...  ;)  Fortunately,
most of my more recent hospital duties have been at a hospital that has
a fairly small ramp garage... one can scan the middle layer from the
door... so if one can remember which level one was on, one has a
fighting chance of finding the car... ;)  Strong Hospital, one can
hardly find a close spot (hard enough to find a spot, period), and the
place is just huge...  I think I could sympathize with someone being
driven around by security randomly clicking there... The hospital itself
is big enough, too, to guarantee tiring one out, even above the tiring
one gets from being on hospital duty...  :)

Of course, the fact that probably one hasn't eaten well in the long
hours one has been sitting/standing by, doesn't help the brain
function... ;0 

ttyl       neb

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