Originally published at: Woman calls police after Florida man vanishes during lunch date - Boing Boing
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I suspect that the husband might have cognitive problems, which would explain why she called the police. For example, he might not be able to use a cell phone, which is why she simply didn’t call him. If this is true, then she might need to use a tracker on him for safety. All guesswork since it isn’t in the report.
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Or, after she looked for parking and finally found a spot, she may have gone into the wrong restaurant.
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I can easily see this scenario happening with my mom. A few years ago I spent over an hour convinced she had wandered off into harm because I dropped her off without her phone and couldn’t find her when I went to spot I thought we were meeting. We were on opposite sides of a small building, but I didn’t see her, couldn’t just call her and went looking for her through the crowds. However it happened, it wasn’t fun for anyone.
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Or maybe they just didn’t communicate with each other which restaurant they were actually going to eat at.
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At least it wasn’t a dine-n-dash.
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Two restaurants that are beside each other but with adjacent doors?
Two identically named stores nearby? Not that unheard of. Close to my house there are two distinct Matress Firm businesses across the road from each other.
The only reason there are two identical stores is because the third one closed and renamed itself American Mattress
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Couldn’t she have just texted her husband “where you at”.
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I was totally expecting this was a blind date then the guy left and stiffed the lady with the bill.
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Mattress Firm is such an inspired name for a firm which sells mattresses.
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When I hear “Mattress Firm” I think of a two-word product review as written by Sloth from The Goonies.
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Oh hey, I know that location! (One of my partners lived in Downers Grove until just a few years ago.) I’m pretty sure it’s not just a Chicago area thing, but driving around some parts of Chicago you’d start to think it’s a law that there has to be a Walgreens ever two blocks.
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And nobody shot or tased.
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I mean, it’s no “Sofa King” but it’s not bad.
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Not so inspired if they only sold firm mattresses and the business name was provided by Phil Hartmann as Frankenstein’s monster or someone like him. “Mattress. Firm.”
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With a CVS on the opposite corner.
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If the place is this one, there are two restaurants in nearby, almost identical buildings, both with palm trees outside.
It could be confusing…
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I drove through a town last winter where there was a Walgreens directly across the street from another Walgreens. I think I have a picture somewhere.
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I love the header image. If only there were mountains in Florida, I’d actually like going there.
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