The wrong parking spot can really ruin your day. Amy can die and learn the hard way one

afternoon last August. She was picking up her daughter from an appointment in downtown

Washington, D.C. Got there a little behind schedule. I said, you know, we will just go

back to the car and go home. Sorry, I was late. And then I began walking and realize

all of these garages look the same. That's when Amy realized she had no idea where she'd

parked. She paid cash so she didn't have a ticket or receipt. Her phone hadn't logged

the location. She did have one photo of her parked car. I usually do that so that if

I get lost when I get back to the garage, then I'll have an idea of where it is in that

garage. Not thinking that I would lose the actual garage. So for three hours, Amy and her

daughter went from garage to garage checking with parking attendants looking for her car.

I began to unravel because I feel like a terrible mom. I feel like a terrible human.

Who loses their car? Eventually she gave up had her husband come pick them up. The next

day, she started calling garages and her husband drove downtown and kept hunting. Nothing. Amy

posted about the ordeal on Facebook. The post got shared and soon she started getting messages.

Online sleuths from Washington and all around the world. I mean, when people from Scotland are

saying, oh, you know, I'm so worried about your car. He just starts to think is this really

happening? Eventually, someone on the internet recognized the garage. A woman named Brandi said

she works nearby and could scout it out on her break. And she did and she took a photo of the car.

And I just could not believe it was kind of like a game show almost.

The thing is losing a car like this isn't that uncommon. When the Washington Post wrote up Amy

Kandayan's story, they called it a right of passage in DC. And sure enough, a nearly identical

saga unfolded again just a couple months ago. A Washington visitor lost their car for four days

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