Call It What You Want...

Really. Nobody move until I find out which one of you stole my work ID badge.

It was Mom. Or Mark. Or the two of you in concert.

It's been gone for two weeks now. The last time I had it, I stuck it in my pocket, saying "I'm going to need this tonight." (I would be going to sewing later and would, indeed, need it to get into the building.)

By the time I got to sewing, it was gone.

Some of us *might* have gone to a local restaurant before sewing. I checked there. Really. The very next morning, I called and asked. They hadn't seen it, but assured me they'd keep an eye out for it. I even looped through the parking lot and checked by the parking space I'd used the night before. No tag on the ground.

Last week I made the trip over to work to do something -- now I can't even remember what -- but mostly with the purpose of heading upstairs to have a new badge made -- at a cost to me of FIVE (5) DOLLARS. However, the new lady who does it now that the amazing Kelly is working maintenance was ill that day, and the other person who could also do it was also not in. So I didn't get it.

That means (aside from not getting into the building without calling the front desk) that I can't go free to my friendly local museums until I replace it. I can't plan a Children's Museum trip with Andrea and the girls and Mark until I get my ID badge. I can't run off for a freezing zoo trip. I can't see the LORD OF THE RINGS exhibit at the Indiana State Museum (http://www.in.gov/ism/MuseumExhibits/lotr.asp), at least not for a museum-employee courtesy price. I determined I *would* get back and get a new badge.

This morning I got a phone call. It was one of the people roughly in my department. Mr. So-and-so (of facilities fame) came by and dropped off my ID badge with her (possibly because she was the only person "in charge" around at the time in our department). He'd been at said restaurant that evening (the same evening as I had been, 2 weeks ago) apparently wearing his museum-logo duds. An employee, finding my badge, had given it to him to return to me. I'm sure he or she thought it would happen in a more timely manner.

But you can all move again. The lost is found.