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Man Forgets Wife
This seems eerily similar to the beginning of the movie Bread and Tulips (Pane and Tulipani).
A Macedonian man drove away from an Italian service station without his wife. He only noticed she wasn't in the car when police phoned him six hours later. The man, his wife and their four-year-old daughter, who live in Germany, were returning from a holiday in Greece when they stopped at a service station near the northern Adriatic city of Pesaro.
While the woman went to the bathroom, the man went to buy gasoline. Having filled the tank, he then drove off with his daughter in the back seat.
Finding herself abandoned without money, phone or ID, his wife turned to the gas station attendants for help. They called the police, who quickly sent a car to bring the woman to the local police station.
As one officer attempted to comfort the distraught woman, another tried to contact the husband via his cell phone. But the phone was switched off and remained so until six hours later, by which time its owner was 360 kilometers away in Milan.
Hearing what had happened, the man justified his absent-mindedness by saying his wife normally sat in the back seat of the car with their daughter and so was not in his immediate field of vision.
Posted by Jackie on August 2, 2005
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