

(Personally, I’d rather wander around mumbling “dammit, where did I leave the Subaru?” – no matter how many people were watching – than to have to go back and face someone I’d stranded.) He wrote about the survey in a post called “ Top driving embarrassments: Women forget where they park, men leave passengers behind.” “It’s those moments when you hope nobody is watching,” says Des Toups, the insurance site’s managing editor. Driven away with something on the roof, such as coffee or a purse: 31 percent.Went the wrong way down a one-way street: 34 percent.Drove over a curb in a parking lot: 43 percent.In fact, 29 percent of the 2,000 men and women surveyed admitted they’d tried to open the door of a car that wasn’t theirs. It’s just that now I know I’m not the only one. The woman sitting in the vehicle said, “Nope, not this one” and smiled as though she’d done this herself.Ī former editor of mine who now works at just sent a release called “Biggest driving embarrassments.” Reading the statistics made me feel less alone.

This is kinda-sorta understandable given how many Subarus wheel around Anchorage on a given day. When I came back out, I tried to open the door of the wrong car. Recently I stopped by a local bakery to pick up a prize basket for my great-nephews’ school auction.
