A guy with some explaining to do... (forgets wife @ gas station for 6 hours)

Reuters/Yahoo ^ | Mon Aug 8,11:03 AM ET

[martin_fierro]

A guy with some explaining to do...

Mon Aug 8,11:03 AM ET

ROME (Reuters) - A Macedonian man left his wife at an Italian service station and only realized he had driven off without her six hours later, news agency Ansa said Monday.

The couple, who were traveling with their 4-year-old daughter, pulled over for gas in the coastal city of Pesaro as they were heading back to their home to Germany.

After filling the tank, the husband drove away -- without noticing that his 30-year-old wife had got out of the car to go to the toilet.

The woman, who had no money or documents with her, contacted the police who eventually traced her husband to Milan, some 210 miles north of Pesaro, Ansa said.

The husband told police he hadn't missed his wife because she always sat in the back of the car with their daughter.

[patton]

Isn't it?

But it did have a lasting effect - I count noses before leaving the rest stop. ALWAYS.

[Dashing Dasher]

There is an Italian movie called Bread and Tulips (Pane e tulipani) where this is the plot!!

They are remaking it for 2006 release where the family is from Trenton...LOL!

Rosalba is a housewife in Pescara with teenage sons, married since 21 to a plumbing supplier whose mistress is her sister-in-law. When a tour bus leaves her, and her husband calls to tell her to stay put, she rebels slightly and hitchhikes toward home, deciding on a whim to continue to Venice. She lucks into a room in the flat of Fernando, a diffident, formal Icelander, befriends Grazia, a holistic masseuse, and gets a job at the flower shop of Fermo, a cranky anarchist. Her husband sends a portly plumber to find her. Will duty and maternal instinct win out, or will Alba stay in Venice, combining Rome's rationality with Greece's imagination to find her true Italian self?

[CFC__VRWC]

First thing this guy needs to do is go out and buy the most comfortable couch he can find - he'll be sleeping on it for a long time to come.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

How long before she gives him any after leaving her at the rest area?

[Dashing Dasher]

The movie is awesome - rent it!

;-)

(not long... fyi)

[HarleyLady27]

(stomping foot, hands on hips, nasty look on face) DESIIIIIII YOU GOT SPLANNNIN TO DO!!!!!!

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL!

[pissant]

I think the hitmen didn't show up for the exchange.

[Cowman]

I would hate to be him after he had to go back and pick her up.

I've been waiting for you and I have a big surprise

[I Drive Too Fast]

see this?

[MeanWestTexan]

Ah, the "cranky anarchist," a standard in all European movies, I think.

[codyjacksmom]

Don't EVEN try this...

[tx_eggman]

He'll be sleepin' on the stick pile for a minimum of 2 months

[laceybrookesdad]

Hmmmm....vedy vedy intreslink.... Honey, could you use a little alone time?

note to self... FR spell check confirms intreslink is spelled correctly.?? Google says word does not exist. Therein lies the question; How can you spell a word, that doesn't exist, correctly???

[codyjacksmom]

Yes, I need lots of alone time...please forget me at a gas station! I promise I won't be mad...hehehe

[laceybrookesdad]

Mobil, Amoco, Shell, Phillips 66, Marathon, Road Ranger, Hucks????????????????