An aquaintence went missing earlier this week, a member of a club to which I belong. She disappeared mid week when she didn't show up to pick up her son from school. Her husband and all her friends were frantic. They found her alive and OK in her car in a parking lot in the next state. I have no idea what happened as I only followed the story on social media and I don't know the family well.

But all I can think of is that the police were alerted within a few hours or sooner of her disappearance and it was spread all over social media.

If I did something literally no one would know until I missed work. Work would notice very quickly and I'm sure it would spread to friends and social media pretty quickly. But other than work no one would notice probably for weeks.

All I would have to do is take a vacation for a week and no one would notice until I didn't return the following week. Even better since they know what is going on I only have to tell them I am going into the hospital and that they wouldn't be able to get in touch with me until I was out. I wouldn't have anyone looking for my car and no set return date and no one would suspect I was gone for probably a few weeks.