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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2004-08-31 12:23 pm

To Catch a Temp's Thief

I caught the flip flop thief!





About five weeks ago, my flip flops went missing at my local swimming pool. I knew it was a woman who had taken it because she left behind a tiny, female, black version of my flip flops. The life guards assured me that she would return them to the lost & found very soon.

For the next week, I asked after my flip flops every time I went swimming. The bored teenagers working in the lost & found would shake their heads before going back to their Heat magazines. After two weeks, I knew my beloved brazilian flip flops were on the hands of a criminal and would not be returned.

I developed a throat infection and stopped swimming. Some may even say that my illness was psychosomatic and that I wasn't coping well with the loss. I stayed away from the swimming pool for three weeks.

Today, I decided to go swimming in the morning. Got to the gym, got changed and headed for the pool. What do I spot lying beside the pool's stairs? I discreetly walked to the life guard and said "remember my flip flops that were stolen four weeks ago?"

She nodded her head.

"Well, they are lying over there" I said, pointing at them.

I scanned the pool, judging the swimmers. All of them were women and they all fit my criminal profile. I dove into the pool, fuming and ready for an eventual screaming match. After a few laps, the life guard picked up the body of evidence and placed it next to her.

Half an hour later, a woman in her late 30s, short and plump, got out of the pool and began to pace around the flip flops by the pool's stairs. I saw the life guard move towards the woman and lead her to my flip flops. As I got out of the pool, the woman smiled at me and began to apologize:

"You see, someone took my flip flops this morning and I was wondering why those flip flops were so big on my feet!"

Yeah lady, and who the hell would take your flip flops this morning if we are the first people in the pool? So these past four weeks have been just a fantasy in your head? I thought to myself while I smiled benignly. She apologized again and walked away.

Later, I thanked the life guard for dealing with the situation in a sensitive manner. I doused the flip flops in the showers and have every intention of boiling them tonight. The poor things look so traumatized.

[identity profile] suede.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
:DDDDD
Traumatized? What about germs?

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
that's why they need a good cleaning tonight. ;)

[identity profile] i-am-scowling.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
haha, well done!!

p.s. i love that wave icon...makes me miss the ocean.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
I made it because I'm missing it like crazy. You will be near the sea soon...

[identity profile] i-am-scowling.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
..I hope I hope, and as will you

[identity profile] jeffster.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
well...your a regular nancy drew!

nice work!

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
HAHA! I guess I am! :)

I wonder what will be my next crime.
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[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Jade monkey? That case might be a tad too hard for London's newest Nancy Drew. If you want me to find out who's been stealing the brown sauce from my job's cafeteria, then we are talkin'.

[identity profile] naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, I love reading your journal.

She sounds completely insane, avoid her at all costs in future - she's clearly dangerous, unwilling to show remorse or even acknowledgement of her criminal activities and potentially suffering serious delusions. Flip flops today. Tomorrow it could be your hair - she could come to the pool with a scalping tomahawk or something!

BE WARNED! STAY SAFE!

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, this incident has made me want to investigate more crime!! Now I'm wondering when will the next mystery come my way. If I can handle the swimming pool klepto, god knows the good I can do to London's mean streets. :)

[identity profile] naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw some kids teasing a puppy earlier.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Call the RSPCA. I only do "human" cases.

[identity profile] naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, actually I think it might just've been a really little guy in a puppy suit. Kinky fucker deserved all he got to be honest.

[identity profile] roguejournal.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
lava na soda!!!!!!
hahahahhahehheha...e no vinagre...depois deixa no sal grosso, faz uma reza brava e coloca no sol pra energizar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


yeah!

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Ixi, eu so passei um paninho com detergente fia do ceu! Nossa, sera que vo pega bixo do pe?

[identity profile] roguejournal.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
ai mininu du ceu, no cassss di oce pega bixo di pe, pedi pru Nervi pega uma aguia e tira proce!!! mas faiz issu di manha cedim pra aproveita a luis do sor...tira di noite dexa buraco na sola e dispois doi um tiquim.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
brigadin!
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[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. That shower room was a timebomb - I wasn't looking forward to removing verrucas from my foot. What gets to me is how she took mines, left hers behind, and didn't bother to come back looking for hers.

[identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com 2004-08-31 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
verrucas? are those the flip flops? hmmm...verruca salt was that bitchy character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. coincidence? I think NOT! (I have no idea what that means. I think I'm a little sun-addled.)

Yo, that's fabulous that you caught the flip flp thief! I'm verra esited for you.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
verrucas are a type of wart.

[identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
AAAAHHH!! hhehehehhe....

on the bottom of your feet? flat? we call those plantar warts. b/c the bottom of your foot is the plantar surface of your foot. top is dorsal.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
to be honest, i'm kinda guessing! But yeah, they would come easily on your feet if you are in a dirty shower room for example.

[identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
athlete's foot seems to be the biggest fear of people using communal shower rooms. well, that and warts.

[identity profile] starfuker.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
You know, this post really reminds me of a porn I once read...

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Those Harry Potter slasher fiction aren't good for you.

[identity profile] starfuker.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
eeewwww no! lol It was some probably some bondage slash.

[identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
not that bondage slash is yucky or anything, but that comment is really funny!!

[identity profile] starfuker.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
....I just caught that typing mistake. haha. Oh well. This is what I get for being online at 7 in the fucking morning.

[identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
well, I actually thought it was funny b/c you would "ew" over Harry Potter slash and then qualify that by saying, "Nah, probably bondage slash" like that's any better. hehehehe...

[identity profile] starfuker.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes. Well, I'm twenty. I have basically been completely desensitized.

[identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
dementicized? *grins*