When someone tries to steal your umbrella....

What do you do?

I use the word steal because the criminal did not break into my house and take the umbrella. That would be burglary. I don't use the word rob because he did not walk past me and swiped the umbrella.

To be fair, I'd forgotten my umbrella when I left Borders to attend Body Jam upstairs. That, and the added fact that it was only after class and when I was almost out of Melbourne Central that I realize I didn't have my umbrella because it was raining. It was almost the perfect crime. Ruined by my rusty but nevertheless still working memory.

I turned back into Borders and headed towards the table at Gloria Jeans where I always did my work. A Korean couple were sitting there. The guy where I sat and the girl next to him. I enquired politely TWICE if he had seen my umbrella.

Both times he responded. "Huh?" "No?"

HELLO?! Am I asking the question here or are you??

Very convincing. Blur look and all. His seedy eyes aided the dazed expression, giving him a sleepy, innocent look.

I scanned underneath the table for it and immediately, most deliberately, he fished the umbrella from his bag and handed it to me as if he hadn't lied to my face.

-.-"

What the heck.. if you wanna steal something, make it a wallet or a bag or something valuable. Even better, DON'T STEAL.

I know it's just an umbrella, and I know he returned it. But....






-.-"




So lame.