Dexter used up another life and took years off of mine

Driving to Blake's to drop off Dexter before going to MGH, I noticed the back window was open as I got off the turnpike. It was true, Dexter was missing. Complete panic overtook me as I retraced my route from the turnpike exit.  I asked individual toll takers if they had seen the cat, racing to the edges of the highway screaming Dexter's name as the toll takers yelled, "Lady you can't go there". Completing an illegal U-turn, I left the booths, spotting Blake walking toward me. I had to go to my multiple appointments at MGH and left Blake promising to search for Dexter. 

My panic escalated, in large part because I did not have my phone with me. Shaking, standing in line waiting to register, I asked Laurie, as it turned out her name was, if I could borrow her phone. I contacted Blake and tried to reach George. I was frantic and shared that with everyone who came and went from the examination room. Having permission to use the phone in that room, I told Blake to post a lost and found on Craigslist. Five minutes later the phone rang and Blake told me that Dexter had been found. I asked if he was alive. He was.  

Blake went to pick him up at the animal rescue league. 

Turns out that someone had spotted the cat in the Prudential Tunnel, which is part of the Massachusetts Turnpike. Dexter was in a storm drain and the man who found him called The Animal Rescue league, which was sending out a team to try and get him. But the man called back and said he had the cat and delivered him to the animal rescue league.

This is the second time Dexter has opened the window and jumped out. But the first time the car was parked. As I was escorting Dad, on his walker, to the passenger-side, Dad pointed and asked if that was my cat. Dexter was exploring the flower bed flanking the entrance to South Franklin. 

I do have a child-lock on my windows and thought I had secured it. Who could possibly dream that the cat would be inclined to leap out of a car speeding through a tunnel?

I pray to God that I don't use up any more of Dexter's lives through my stupidity."