I can't find, in my spare little room, one pair of 8-year-old Quicksilver flipflops, much beloved. I wore them Thursday night. It's not possible that I could have returned home barefoot. As a matter of fact I remember leaving them on the floor by the side of my bed when I got home, neatly lined up, next to two other pairs of shoes, which are still there with an empty space between them now.
Two days later, they are nowhere to be found in my apartment.
My roommate has volunteered the information that the girl who lived in my apartment before me woke up one morning to find the insoles of a pair of her running shoes missing.
There is a shoe-fetishing thief on the loose in my building!
myriam [email] said at 12:22 PM 07-18-2004: OTHER THINGS FOUND MISSING IN THE PAST THAT MADE ME THINK I WAS GOING CRAZY:
--eggs;
--the entire insides of a brand new jar of peanut butter, with a thin film of PB cleverly left coating the sides so that from the exterior it looked like the jar was still full;
--a brand new, plastic-wrapped pack of cloves.
myriam [email] said at 3:28 PM 07-18-2004: ha ha, i'm assuming this is from personal experience?
the insoles went missing from the girl in my room before me. and nope, don't have a ferret. unless there are enormous rats up on the 7th floor, large and wily enough to drag my sandals off to have babies in...
myriam [email] said at 10:08 AM 07-19-2004: OK, so the management company doesn't believe me and, in fact, hung up on me; even after having to admit (following my careful probing) that yes, the maintenance man could have come into my apartment without letting me know to "change the air conditioning filter" on Friday; not only that but the management company keeps no record of when he's in what apt. to do this, nor do they alert the residents beforehand. (The exact explanation was: "We're a small outfit, honey, we don't have enough people here to call 45 apartments in a building.") At first she tried to tell me that no one has keys to my apartment--THEN after questioning she admitted that this crazy dude Jimmy (the "maintenance man") has a full set of his own keys. He's the one I've seen wandering the lobby at 2am; he's also the one that I caught in my apartment one day when I came home unexpectedly for lunch, and he's the one that said, "Oh I thought you and your roommate were both gone all day!"--too stupid to think better of blurting that out. CREEPY. What if he's like rolling around in my bed and trying on my clothes and stuff while I'm not home???
brandonA [email] said at 2:20 AM 04-05-2005: In some places it is actually illegal for a landlord or their operatives to enter in non-emergency situations without prior notice.
I don't know where you live but here is the info for MD.
flipflop barefoot [ url ] said at 12:25 AM 04-05-2005: here is the lost-and-found office of flipflop sandals.
www.geocities.com/thong_pics/barefoot/flipflops
Vaughn said at 3:49 AM 02-28-2006: That is all more than freaky, it sounds very dangerous. That secret video thing is a good idea. I had a similar problem with my apartment so I got a cheap video camera (under $100) from www.je-distributing.com. Turns out that the landlord was creeping to my apt while I was at work. The perv turned out to be a sex offender. Get the camera. It's easy to hide. Be careful and good luck.
