Facebook to the rescue

Last week, I went out to run some errands. When I returned to work I realized I had lost my license. I hate that! Now I’d have to call all the places I went to and hope they found it, get back in the car, drive over there…. And what if I didn’t find it? It was Friday and I’d be without it through the weekend, hoping the whole time that I don’t get pulled over.

There were three possible places: Fred Meyer, the liquor store, and a hardware wholesaler. As I was navigating Fred Meyer’s automated phone tree, I got an e-mail:

Subject: Drivers license found

“We found your license today at Portland Fasteners.  We close at 430pm today and
will re-open Monday at 7am.”

Thank God! But how did they do that? How did find me? How did they send me the message? Facebook! Of course! In their infinite wisdom, they conveniently searched for my name and sent me an e-mail. Problem solved.

I have to say, I felt slightly uncomfortable that they were able to find me so easily, but then again, they found my license, so I was ok with it. Anyway, I went to get it and as the guy handed it to me, I half-jokingly said, “I hope you didn’t look at my pictures.” He smiled, winked, and walked away.