After flying 24 hours home from Asia, I realized I lost my parking ticket for the Dulles economy lots. To make it worse, I had written my parking location on the ticket and was not sure of the location of my car.

I got on the gold lot bus and told the driver of my problems. I got off the bus at a location I thought might be near my car. It was not and I started wandering around, pulling my heavy bag. I saw an airport parking lot car cruise by. He said the bus driver had told him about me. I gave him my license plate number and he called it in and was told the exact row my car was parked in. Sure enough, there it was, and in the back section of green, not gold, lot. It turns out that they keep track of where all the cars are as well as when you enter the lot by your license plate number.

So when I went to the cashier to pay without a ticket, they asked me the date I came in and sure enough, with my license plate number , they found the exact time on their system. After a long trip, I was very happy with their help.

The employee who helped me said that I could have used the phone from any bus shelter to call for help. This is good informatin to know.