Don' mess wid my EYEDROPS!

RantWoman is SUPPOSED to be grateful for the nice young woman who left a message on RantWoman's voice mail about finding RantWoman's pouch full of necessary medications. RantWoman is SUPPOSED to feel lucky the items were found and not just tossed into the trash. RantWoman IS relieved that she does not have to call around some more and try to track down the lost item. RantWoman will just cope with needing to wait until 1 pm tomorrow to rendezvous with the earnest young voice.

However, if RantWoman were only grateful this post would not be happening. Here's why RantWoman is annoyed both with the earnest young woman and with RantWoman's pharmacy:

IF YOU FIND LOST MEDICATION ON THE BUS, PLEASE JUST TURN IT INTO THE BUS DRIVER!

Metro has a very functional policy about medication lost on the bus. Metro understands that people who carry medication around on the bus tend to do it because they need their medications throughout the day. If someone loses medications on the bus he or she can call into Metro dispatch. Metro will look up which coaches were serving the route at about the time the medication was lost. The dispatcher will contact the drivers of those coaches and ask them to check for the item. If the item is found, a passenger can either make arrangements to intersect with the bus or pick it up at Metro Lost and Found the next business day.

How does RantWoman know this? Metro's lost and found info on its web page says so. So do bus schedules, RantWoman believes. More importantly, RantWoman, urk, has used this service before, and she is VERY grateful to the driver or to the person who turned the lost item into the driver. RantWoman really, really, really wishes the nice young woman had just turned RantWoman's lost item into the driver instead of carting it off on a ferry to another whole area code!

See RantWoman called Metro. The dispatcher made the call and RantWoman received a cellphone message that the item had not been found on the bus RantWoman guessed she was on when the item went missing. RantWoman sighed and groaned; RantWoman was a little uncomfortable and was very sheepishly debating whether to call and see if the item had in fact gone missing on an earlier bus, the last time RantWoman had specifically remembered having the item.

RantWoman was tired of lugging around a larger than usual volume of necessary papers and tools. RantWoman really was mortally embarrassed about the thought of calling Metro again. RantWoman considered the option of being able to intersect with the other coach in the bus tunnel, but RantWoman decided just to head home and unburden herself before trying any other measures. Luckily RantWoman got the voice mail and discovered she can do stop-gap measures until she can connect with the lost item.

RantWoman does give the young woman credit for resourcefulness. Once the item had been carted off to another area code, the young woman at least called the pharmacy listed on RantWoman's prescription labels so RantWoman got not only a call from the nice yound woman but a slightly mysterious phone call from the pharmacy suggesting another call might occur tomorrow.

Clang, clang, clang. Now why would RantWoman be annoyed with her pharmacy? The nice young woman got RantWoman's phone number. RantWoman suspects she should simply stick one of her business cards permanently in her pouch with her medications, but RantWoman thinks the nice young woman got RantWoman's phone number through the pharmacy. RantWoman thinks this should in fact be some kind of violation of some thing to do with patient information. RantWoman has too long a list of other vexations on her schedule tomorrow to go ballistic about this topic--this time.

When RantWoman talked to the young woman, the young woman mentioned plans to leave the item at a different pharmacy from RantWoman's usual one. However, the young woman readily agreed that it would make sense just to rendezvous with RantWoman. It turns out the young woman also works very near a cat RantWoman is cat-sitting for so, aside from matters of timing, RantWoman would have the option of doing two necessary tasks in the same trip. Well RantWoman would have the option....