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Dude, Where's My Car?

My car was stolen...or was it?? Read the story to find out!! Friday, 1/19/01 - A little background. I'm a computer operator at RSL in Pittsburgh...well, really in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania. I work Swing shift (3:30pm until Midnight), although I'm allowed to leave once my work is done. I can go home, but I still have to dial in from home and watch the system until the night guy gets there. RSL has Service Master come in every night to clean. On this particular Friday, I parked in the lot over by the hedges, on the right side of the lot. I was done my work around 11:15 and headed upstairs (the computer room is in the basement), past the guard, and out the front door. It was snowing and I walked to where I parked my Mercury Tracer. It wasn't there. Silly me, I thought. I musta parked in the middle of the lot. I walk over there, no car. I mean, there's only like ten cars in the entire lot...how could I miss it?? I walk back to the front door and tell the guard my car is gone...it's not there. He calls the police. While he's calling them, I walk back outside to check again and to call Laurie on my cell phone and ask her to pick me up. While I'm outside, I see a Ford Escort that's parked near where I parked that day. For those who don't know, the Escort and the Tracer are the same car, just different name plates. This Escort looks a lot like my Tracer, especially in the dimly lit parking lot with snow all over. So I'm thinking (hoping) that maybe someone got into my car by mistake and the keys (because they're the same car) just happen to fit.

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