I’m pretty sure someone broke into my apartment today.
I don’t think anything is missing – my camera, Kindle and both my passports are sitting on my living room table - but there are a pair of flip-flops in the doorway of my bedroom, and they are not my shoes. I've never seen them before, and all of my shoes are present and accounted for, so there's no chance that I accidentally wore them home by mistake.
(My first thought when I saw the shoes was whoops, it's going to be really embarrassing to call the woman I just had tea with and tell her that I accidentally stole her husband's shoes, and then I saw the shoes I was wearing today, kicked aside by the front door, and it stopped being funny and started being creepy.)
It wouldn't be that hard to break into my apartment. I keep my roof door open all the time, because it's really windy and I have to use giant jugs of water to prop the door open and it's a pain in the ass to move them, so I just don't shut my roof door if I'm in town. Technically it's a private roof, but someone could climb over the wall between the public roof to my roof, assuming they could get into the building, although we keep the door to the building locked most of the time.
People don't obsessively lock doors here because in general things are pretty safe. Also, it's very hot, and the one saving grace is that at least there's always a decent breeze. It's not even like this is a cautionary tale. Yes, someone was in my apartment, but they didn't take anything. I even got a free pair of shoes out of the deal. I'm just torn about what to do now. Obviously, I'm going to start locking when I'm out, but I sleep with that door open. Hell, I sleep ON my roof half the time, and now I feel a little unsafe and creeped out.
I don’t think anything is missing – my camera, Kindle and both my passports are sitting on my living room table - but there are a pair of flip-flops in the doorway of my bedroom, and they are not my shoes. I've never seen them before, and all of my shoes are present and accounted for, so there's no chance that I accidentally wore them home by mistake.
(My first thought when I saw the shoes was whoops, it's going to be really embarrassing to call the woman I just had tea with and tell her that I accidentally stole her husband's shoes, and then I saw the shoes I was wearing today, kicked aside by the front door, and it stopped being funny and started being creepy.)
It wouldn't be that hard to break into my apartment. I keep my roof door open all the time, because it's really windy and I have to use giant jugs of water to prop the door open and it's a pain in the ass to move them, so I just don't shut my roof door if I'm in town. Technically it's a private roof, but someone could climb over the wall between the public roof to my roof, assuming they could get into the building, although we keep the door to the building locked most of the time.
People don't obsessively lock doors here because in general things are pretty safe. Also, it's very hot, and the one saving grace is that at least there's always a decent breeze. It's not even like this is a cautionary tale. Yes, someone was in my apartment, but they didn't take anything. I even got a free pair of shoes out of the deal. I'm just torn about what to do now. Obviously, I'm going to start locking when I'm out, but I sleep with that door open. Hell, I sleep ON my roof half the time, and now I feel a little unsafe and creeped out.
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