At the airport, picture where you parked thanks to American Airlines

Catherine Hamm’s Angry Traveler

Who knew American Airlines would turn out to be my hero? Remember, this is the company that’s going to charge me, the non-elite flier, $15 to check my bag starting Sunday.

But I still bow down to its ingenuity. In a news release Friday that talks about how to remember where you parked at the airport, it suggests taking a picture of the parking area with your phone or your digital camera.

Duh.

Pretty simple. Pretty ingenious.

Because I’m invariably the one who is in such a swivet to get to the airline terminal that I don’t remember where I parked

That’s vaguely worrisome, although after listening to an National Public Radio interview with Sue Halpern, author of the new book “Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research,” I felt better.

“There’s a standard line that the groups like Alzheimer’s Assn. say.” Halpern said the line is something like: “If you misplace your keys, that’s one thing, but if you forget what your keys are for, that’s a disease.”

– Catharine Hamm, Los Angeles Times Travel Editor

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