Need to help my cousin in her car problem!

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matthew
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Need to help my cousin in her car problem!

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Hello all, I would like to have some advice from you people. I have a cousin with whom I mostly go out in the city. She takes her car out most of the times but the trouble strikes when often she forgets the place where she parked the car. I usually remember but it so happens that I get down and she goes on to park it. She is just so engaged with her iPhone that she almost forgets where she get off and everything about the car. I need to take care of this problem and so I would need some advice from you people.

Any help will be appreciated.
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Post by Fuzzy »

very easy, get out of the car. Take out iPhone. Snap a picture of the nearest colored Pillar in the car park.
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Post by zong »

I would suggest erm, "confiscating" her iPhone, but that sounds a little too evil... haha.

If you're just worried about how to find your car back, you could (worst case scenario) put some gps tracking device on the car, so you can find it with GPS next time you "lose" it :P
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Post by Dragon Man »

Don't go in the car with your cousin.

Find someone else that knows how to remember where they parked.
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Hmm.. is this a spam?
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Don’t worry at all; this is not something that is big. All of us have some pros and cons and may be she has one too. Most of the times you handle the situation but for the rest times I would like to advice you to make use of a car locator that will solve your problems. She has her iPhone and can use an application that helps you to track your car in the parking lot with the use of the iPhone’s navigational GPS system. This could be the best solution so that even when you are not with her, she can rely on her iPhone to save her time of finding the car. And when she uses her iPhone so much, she would love to have it so that she can even more use her device.
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WOW!!! Great sales tactic!!! :)
Will work great assuming everyone is a moron ...
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