Posted on 03/29/2006 10:18:33 AM PST by CedarDave
Regina, 77, and Lloyd Vogt, 80, retired farmers from Minnesota, had made a stop in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Socorro last week when they each had one of those oops! moments.
They both went into Wal-Mart to browse, never running into each other in the vast super center. Lloyd came out before Regina did and hit the road for Tucumcari, the couple's destination that day. A thoughtful husband, Lloyd decided to let Regina sleep in.
About 10 minutes later, Regina walked outside the Wal-Mart. Regina's plight was first noticed by Wal-Mart greeter Patricia Montoya, who saw her sitting on a bench by the door and asked if she was OK.
Socorro police [were called and] reviewed Wal-Mart's security tape to make sure Lloyd had not encountered any foul play. The tapes showed Lloyd walking out of the store and driving away in the motorhome.
State Police in Tucumcari, who were on alert for the vehicle, found it— out of fuel on a side street. A snowstorm and a backup of semis had made diesel fuel hard to find in Tucumcari.
Police took Lloyd to the hospital to make sure he was OK.
That is when the State Police stepped in and arranged a three-car relay to make the trip.
Reunited at the hospital, Lloyd said, "Hi. You don't know how surprised I was when I went back to the bedroom and you weren't there."
Lloyd's health checked out fine and the Vogts' son and son-in-law drove out to Tucumcari the next day and drove them and the Holiday Rambler home.
There are no hard feelings between Regina and Lloyd. "It's no use to be angry," Regina said. "It was just a misunderstanding. We're going to be married 59 years, so we know each other pretty good."
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Accidentally?
Accidentally, my foot. Ol' Lloyd's had this in the planning stages for a looooong time. Now he needs a new plan.
Time for both to give up their licenses.
Is there no evil the dastardly WalMart won't stoop to?
Didn't take long for the Mods to send this Breaking News to Chat! ;>)
Slowest...news day...ever...
When the in-laws were alive my father in law would walk off and lose the mother in law all the time He would lose her in European cities, Africa and South America. This only happened once before she decided that SHE would be the one to carry the money!
Maybe his SUV drove him home too soon.
The motorhome reminded me of some family friends. Around 30 years ago they were traveling through Arizona in their motorhome and it was the wife's turn to drive. It was hot so the husband stripped naked back in the bedroom to take a nap.
About a half hour into his nap the wife pulls over at a gas station to fuel up. The husband wakes up in the back and being naked, just decides to crack the rear facing door to see where they were. Right at that moment the wife hit the gas and pulled away, leaving her stunned husband scrapped up and naked in the gas station parking lot.
The troopers pulled her over about :20 minutes later and told her she'd jettisoned something important a little while back.
Sounds like the beginning of Alzheimer's disease and similar to what happened to my father. He and mom would be out somewhere and stop to shop (dad drove, mom didn't) and he couldn't remember how to get home or sometimes even how to start the car and get it in gear.
It was the beginning of a long and humbling experience in caring for another person for me.
vital to the plan is to make sure you didn't leave her with the credit card.
hey, i know someone whos parents did the same thing at
a rest stop somewhere on the n.j. turnpike, i believe.
years later and that story is retold frequently... ;)
A Joe Dirt event that didn't quiet follow through?
"The troopers pulled her over about :20 minutes later and told her she'd jettisoned something important a little while back."
ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!!
He has eaten too much prion laden beef.
If I ever asked DH to drive me to Wal-Mart, he'd leave me there, too. I'm certain of it.
If I want to "lose" him for an afternoon, I just drop him off at Harbor Freight, LOL!
http://www.harborfreight.com/
Nonsense. Not over this at any rate. I knew a couple in their mid 20s who did the exact same thing.
He didn't even realize she was missing from the back seat of the car, until a police car finally stopped him a couple of hundred miles down the road, after she had gotten help from them.
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