PLEASE, you have to pay attention and read it all, if not you will miss out on something. I just need some input on this, which may or may not be important, but it’s really odd:
1. My cousin went to a well known chain pharmacy store as he does at least twice a week. Not to buy medicines, but a few grocery items. He came to my home first to bring me my part of the groceries and as he opened the bag he found a medicine bottle and instantly was ready to go return it to the store. My cousin does not play jokes and it’s a totally reliable and serious person.
2. Not having bought medicines there ever he doesn’t know that meds are only paid at the back where they dispensed, and never, ever, at the cashiers. I informed him of this and said it was not possible that the customer in front of him could have left it behind, simply because they are always paper-bagged and sealed with staplers.
3. My cousin had stopped at the supermarket for other items which are also on special, and since he walks everywhere instead of using a car, he has to leave packages the supermarket’s small “customer service cubicle” which is actually the 10-items cashier register, where they keep all packages till customers finish doing their groceries (you know, in order to curb stealing). Another clue or hint: the pharmacy does not require customers leave their bags while shopping.
4. I concluded it must have been there that someone opened his already closed bag (witnessed by him to have been tied into a knot by the cashier, and having been found still with the knot when he got here, and that someone slipped the medicine bottle in.
5. A couple of “clues” or “coincidences” are the following: there is a “new bag boy (actually a man) which is actually a new feature at that store, mainly because this store seldom hires anyone anymore, and also because there has never been a bag boy in that cashier register EVER!
6. Living in a world full of paranoia and suspicious activities, where police officers judge and condemn people even before they are brought into the police station. Knowing how grotesquely twisted the law can be sometimes, and simply firmly believing that authorities do not conduct themselves as they used to, let’s say 30 years ago, they eye everyone suspiciously, we have wanted to avoid any problems, such as by returning this medicine to the store, or even calling the person on the phone_his phone and address are on the bottle_just in case this man thinks we tampered w/ the medicine or something. Besides how can we tell it was at the supermarket where they opened the bag precisely to insert it there? If it was done by the cashier at the drug store: why would she have someone’s medicine bottle there with her? And if it was hers how distracted can she be that she takes it and puts in the bag? Besides the cashier counter at these drug stores is so narrow no one can place something there without been so distracted, both the cashier and my cousin, not to have not seen it.
7. Guess what? The bottle is not even from that drug store chain.
8. Guess what? In a “formidable” play of words, the name of that pharmacy (of which none of us has ever heard about and we’ve been living in this city for almost 4 decades), is the almost the exact same as the chain drug store, except that the names are backwards!
9. Another clue: the medicine was prescribed for the person two weeks ago, which removes all doubt that he had just purchased it and left it on the pharmacy’s counter, even if he had just come into that pharmacy precisely from the other where he’d bought it at.
10. Concerning the supermarket: Why would a customer hand the medicine bottle to either the cashier or the bag boy to put it in “their bag”, supposing that this customer also had a bag kept there while doing his groceries, when he could easily have put it in any of his pockets?
What do you find most odd or intriguing out of all this? And any ideas are welcome!
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