People suck.

[badseed1980]

Or at least those who ride the T suck.

On Saturday evening, I went to visit my parents. I took the B Line to Park Street and the Red Line to South Station, where I caught my train. I brought my backpack and my knitting bag.

At South Station, I realized I had a little while to go before my train boarder. I got some food and sat down to eat. When it got near time to get on my train, I got up to go wash my hands. I picked up my backpack, but realized my knitting bag wasn't there. Damn, damn, damn. I looked around the station briefly, checking the places where I'd walked. I figured I'd probably left it on the Red Line, which was too short a ride for me to actually do any knitting. I went to the information booth and asked if there was a T official around who I could talk to about that, and they told me I'd have to go down to the subway and ask there. By then, of course, it was time to get on the train. Shit.

I got to my parents' house and looked up a lost-and-found number. I called them when they opened this morning, and got redirected a few times. Neither the Red Line nor the B Line lost-and-found had it, nor did the South Station lost-and-found.

I had hoped that maybe, since there was nothing of any real monetary value in there, someone might have been kind enough to turn it in. But no. Why would they do something nice for someone? The only thing of value in there was over a month's hard work, almost finished. So if there wasn't anything they could sell or anything worth keeping, what the hell did people do with it? Did they just pick it up and chuck it in a trash can for laughs? Or is it possible it's still where I left it and no one's noticed it or picked it up yet? Maybe I'll try calling back this afternoon, or tomorrow. I'm so bummed out. A few more days and I'd have had a beautiful blanket to give my friend for her baby-to-be. I almost started crying when I realized it was lost. All that work for nothing. Yeah, people suck, sure enough.

Comments

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn...sorry to hear that. What an awful feeling, after all that work you put in.
Maybe no one stole it, or tossed it, but the T employees are being lazy? Maybe if you were there face to face they couldn't just hand you off?

Hope you can get it back.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Well, I did get to talk to the people who would have seen it if it had been turned in. The woman at South Station told me that a knitting bag had been turned in, but it was a blue mesh bag, not my Hawaiian print purse.

[tigira.livejournal.com]

Suck! Yeah - that's atrocious. Why would anyone want to do anything with a bag of knitting besides turn it in? Then again, I don't understand a lot of the modern mind-set. I guess I'm still a small-town girl (though I never lived in a SMALL small town - and then not until I was an adult).

*sigh*

*huuuuuuuug*

[leenah.livejournal.com]

honey, i'm sorry.

keep checking. it still might show up.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figure I'll try at least a couple more times.

[witchyspyce.livejournal.com]

Sending good vibes......

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

I'm thinking knitty thoughts myself right now in hopes that they will attract my unfinished work back to me.

(((HUGS)))

[dee-cee.livejournal.com]

Re: (((HUGS)))

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Aw :) Thanks. Fortunately, I only had one skein of yarn in there, one pair of needles, and some cheap scissors and yarn needles for working in ends. If I don't get the bag back, I'm not remaking the blanket, most likely.

Re: (((HUGS)))

[dee-cee.livejournal.com]

That's even sadder to hear. I understand, but still sad nonetheless.

Ok, well, you know that offer's open anytime anyway.

-The knitting supply Express

Re: (((HUGS)))

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Well, it just takes so long to make, and I was within a few days of finishing. Starting all over again would suck. And the baby would be born before I finished, quite possibly.

[dolphindream.livejournal.com]

*HUG*

I wouldn't give up on it for a while. It definitely takes a while sometimes for lost stuff to turn up on the T.

If it doesn't . . . it's a huge loss. :( butin my experience, these things end up happening of some kind of reason . . . it's weird. It's probably because humans are good at creating meaning from apparent randomness. But it ends up working out, one way or another. And hopefully if you never get it back, someone else has it and will value it.

Good luck!!!

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Well, if someone else has it and they value knitting, they would know how much effort gets put into it, and would automatically try to return it. Unless they're a jerk. In that case, I would hope they get no joy of it whatsoever.

[dolphindream.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry! I've had things like that happen.

I think it's that people Just Don't Care. They see lost items, and don't bother to turn them in. It sucks. :-(

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Aye, that it does. But hopefully more conscientious citizens will come along and help me out here. Anyway, at least I get a ride to AC Moore if I can't get it back!