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2025-04-18 18:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling

My son hates swimming and is protesting against being driven to yet another lesson when we realise our car is gone. Searching proves fruitless, so we check the Trace system for impounded cars. Shortly after we bought it, three years ago, our car was impounded because we didnt realise we couldnt park across the street. This was not our finest moment, but one we now find ourselves desperately hoping weve repeated. There is nothing on the system except for a reference to the original impounding, complete with date stamps of when it was returned to us for a small fee.We call the police non-emergency line, sitting through dozens of automated messages telling us all the reasons we should not be calling, before giving up and reporting it online. Within an hour, Ive received an email saying the car has been impounded after all. Embarrassed but delighted, we call the impound who tells us they do not, in fact, have our car and that the police must have looked at the old case, with its clearl...


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