Baby Preparations: Babymoon!

Well, you know that they say that you shouldn’t post when you’re going on vacation until you get back, that way thieves won’t know that you’re gone until you’re already back. (There have been many recent “Facebook” break-ins reported lately. I kid you not!)

Anyways. We’re back. We went back to where we got married, and hung out for a few days. Interesting story about getting to the airport on the way back though…

First, a little back-story. Kim, as a matter of course throughout the pregnancy has to take 2 injections a day. (What they are isn’t important… but if it is for you, then pretend it’s a super-soldier serum for the baby.)

Well, getting them on the airplane was pretty easy on the way there, since they were in their little cases and whatnot. On the way back however, they’re just considered bio-hazard materials, and therefore not allowed on the plane. No big deal, we drop off the used injectors at the closest hospital that we were staying at. (Nine needles isn’t that big a deal for hospitals, since they have to dump literally tons of bio-hazardous waste a year.) Well, we forgot one of them in the rental car, so on the way to the airport, we had to stop at a much larger hospital… no big deal right? Wrong. These bozos (the head nurse and staff,)are telling me that this one injector is a liability hazard, and they can’t take it. I argue with them for a bit, and they don’t relent. I tell them, fine, no problem, I’m just going to go talk to the administration and see what they have to say about this… and I stomp off in a huff.

That gets a laugh out of them… Now, when I turn the corner, I stop acting angry, as that will get me nowhere. I put it on the ground, and then pick it back up again. I walk, not to the administration like I said, but to the nice old lady at the information counter. I tell her that I picked up this used needle in the ER area, and wondered if I should just throw it away, or if they needed to do something special with it?

She said that if I put it down on the counter, that she would take care of it and thanked me for pointing it out because someone could have gotten hurt with it. I tell her that I’m just glad someone could take it off my hands.

And that was the truth… and then I got back in the car and proceeded to catch my plane. (Which normally wouldn’t have worked, but it was a small airport and there were a whole ten people in the TSA screening area.)

Now, normally I don’t like “presenting the truth in the most favorable fashion,” but that head nurse really ticked me off… What do you think that I should have done?

-D