Monday, March 9, 2009

The Missing Phantom Shopper

1.50 pm about to leave library to go for tutorial

as usual go to toilet first

went down the staircase

left my bag at the corner

i hate bringing bag into toilet

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5 mins later i came out

OMG my bag was gone

then i went down the staircase and searched

that is a dead-end

so basically people who walked past here

are only girls who are using the toilet

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not around

began to get panic

went up, saw a girl there

asked her, she got no idea

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then wandered around

in the midth of the book shelves

i found…

that's her, my Phantom Shopper 

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at a corner

that was my sweater on the floor

obviously someone had ransacked my bag

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but to my surprise

my stuff are all still intact

my phone, my PDA

maybe they are too out-dated

not worth stealing

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my purse?

then i remembered

oh today i forgot to bring my purse out

what a close shave

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the incident is just too strange

to happen on me

i analyzed the whole thing

still couldn’t find a right explanation

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Could it be

- a thief

- a stalker    

- a mischief-maker

- karma because I always hid others’ thing 

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pretty lucky that nothing has gone missing

but i really don’t feel like carrying my bag

into the toilet

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i’ll still put my bag outside

but shorten the time

I spent in front of the mirror

and zip up my bag all the time

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