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On Monday night I left work and headed downstairs to the parking
lot. I was tired and wanted nothing more than to go home and
relax. When I got outside, however, I couldn't find my car. I
looked all over the parking lot several times but I didn't find it.
After twenty minutes of desperate searching, I called the cops and
reported my car stolen. The officer told me that my car was
probably long gone, used as a getaway vehicle in some robbery. They
even told me that there had been two other car thefts that day. I
thought I would never see my Previa again. After he left, I called
a friend for a ride home.
When my friend arrived, I told him that there was another Previa in
the parking lot, and I showed it to him. Both my Previa and the one
in the parking lot at my office were the same color. My friend
suggested that maybe the owner of the other car had taken mine by
accident. I told him that I could not see how that was possible as
I was the only one with the keys.
On Tuesday morning, the cops found my Previa several blocks away in
the parking lot of a local CVS. They told me that they had towed it
to the local police impound lot and that I could pick it up the next
day. When I arrived home, my father told me about the owner of the
other Previa reporting her car stolen from the parking lot of the
CVS (where she left my car) and then he told me how it was that she
was able to drive my car. He told me that one of the keys for her
car fit mine.
The cops think I drove my car to the CVS at lunch, left it there,
and mistakenly drove the other Previa back to work. As if, in broad
daylight I couldn't tell my car apart from someone else's. For two
days, the woman denied that she had taken the wrong car, despite the
fact that it looked markedly different from hers, and that it didn't
have her stuff (why would it?).
Ultimately, I got my car back with all of my things, and the woman
admitted that she had taken the wrong car.
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