Lost in Mall Parking?

Mall Parking 
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I just finished a client presentation one afternoon at Gateway Mall and went straight to the basement parking. I was so confident I could easily find my car as I remembered I parked just opposite the entrance to the escalator going up. I kept on looking for my car. I even switched on the alarm but I couldn't find it. Panic set in. I called the guard and told him my car is 'lost'! After calming me for a few seconds, the guard concluded, I was the one who was lost!

Has this ever happened to you?

Have you ever found it difficult to look for your car in the labyrinth that is called MALL PARKING?

I have. More than a dozen times. 

Trying to remember where I parked my car is a challenge. Often, when I'm with somebody else, I'd ask my companion to remember our parking space or at least the floor and the 'section' in that parking floor. If I remember, sometimes I type it in my phone and save it.

Yesterday, as I was parking my car in Glorietta 1, I looked around me to spot some landmarks of my parking space, I saw a man approached a post and took photo of the sign on the post that point to the location of our parking slot. I thought, clever!

I will definitely do that next time.

How about you? How do you take note of your parking space in malls or huge office buildings? Share with us your practical tip.