When I came out of class at the gym and went back to the changing rooms and my locker, and my heart sank. I had forgotten to lock it?! I thought I did. Arrrgh. The contents had been moved, and my wallet that was at the bottom of my backpack now lay atop.
In the 40 minutes I left the locker room and was in class, someone had managed to go through my bag to get to my wallet, and removed a $100 note, which I put in that morning. The other two notes, a $50 and a $10, were intact. Thankfully my watch wasn’t taken, and I don’t wear jewelry to the gym on most days. Obviously none of the credit cards were stolen, and the thief clearly didn’t have time to remove my EZlink cards or scour through the pockets to my secret compartment to retrieve the $50 note stashed in there. I’m really annoyed at this invasion of privacy.
There is no way to find out who did it. It’s my own doing. But seriously?! It has to be a fellow gym-goer. How could someone, at this age, with a paid gym membership who clearly could still afford to work out at peak lunch hour, do this? For thrills? To ‘punish’ me since it would be my own fault and hence she is ‘entitled’ to help herself to this cash. It’s a friggin crime, woman. Do have bad luck this whole year, asshole, and preferably be up to your neck in credit card debts. Grrrrr. 🤬
When I told two friends (women) who come to this same gym at lunch time, they sheepishly admitted that they had been equally brainless last week and had forgotten to lock their lockers too, at lunch time. Their laptops and phones were intact, but they also lost money. Except that one lost two $10 notes and the other lost a $50 note; they didn’t notice it till two days later. They wondered if they had spent it instead, and they couldn’t recall if they indeed secured their lockers. It was a ‘did I or did I not’ situation. OH. In this first two weeks of January too. What an unfortunate coincidence.
Initially we didn’t want to mention it to the gym (since it’s our fault), but when we realized it didn’t just happen to one person, we told the gym. They should know that such incidents are happening, and please remind the other gym-goers to lock up, and for the women to know that there are active thefts from unsecured lockers. I really hope it’s done by the same person, otherwise it’s frightening to know that many fellow gym-goers aren’t nice people and are pretty much thieves if given the opportunity to pilfer.
In the 40 minutes I left the locker room and was in class, someone had managed to go through my bag to get to my wallet, and removed a $100 note, which I put in that morning. The other two notes, a $50 and a $10, were intact. Thankfully my watch wasn’t taken, and I don’t wear jewelry to the gym on most days. Obviously none of the credit cards were stolen, and the thief clearly didn’t have time to remove my EZlink cards or scour through the pockets to my secret compartment to retrieve the $50 note stashed in there. I’m really annoyed at this invasion of privacy.
There is no way to find out who did it. It’s my own doing. But seriously?! It has to be a fellow gym-goer. How could someone, at this age, with a paid gym membership who clearly could still afford to work out at peak lunch hour, do this? For thrills? To ‘punish’ me since it would be my own fault and hence she is ‘entitled’ to help herself to this cash. It’s a friggin crime, woman. Do have bad luck this whole year, asshole, and preferably be up to your neck in credit card debts. Grrrrr. 🤬
When I told two friends (women) who come to this same gym at lunch time, they sheepishly admitted that they had been equally brainless last week and had forgotten to lock their lockers too, at lunch time. Their laptops and phones were intact, but they also lost money. Except that one lost two $10 notes and the other lost a $50 note; they didn’t notice it till two days later. They wondered if they had spent it instead, and they couldn’t recall if they indeed secured their lockers. It was a ‘did I or did I not’ situation. OH. In this first two weeks of January too. What an unfortunate coincidence.
Initially we didn’t want to mention it to the gym (since it’s our fault), but when we realized it didn’t just happen to one person, we told the gym. They should know that such incidents are happening, and please remind the other gym-goers to lock up, and for the women to know that there are active thefts from unsecured lockers. I really hope it’s done by the same person, otherwise it’s frightening to know that many fellow gym-goers aren’t nice people and are pretty much thieves if given the opportunity to pilfer.
8 comments:
sounds like the thief deliberately chose to only take a portion of the cash (perhaps in hope that the victim would not realize the missing amount?). seems like the thief is planning for this to be sustainable...... otherwise, it would really be for the "thrill" of it.......
if the thief had been less greedy and taken the S$10, I might have not known. But walaoeh, take my $100 note, A BIT OBVIOUS LOR.
I talked to fellow gym-goers and realized that in the past three weeks at this same venue, at lunch time, many people (women so far) have lost small amounts of cash! Some, like me, weren't 100% sure that they locked up. A few were absolutely certain that they locked up, but they found it unlocked after, and small notes missing. These few complained, of course. These are valid voices. The rest of us made a note to the management. It's too much of a coincidence. These RFID lockers are fairly easy to break into.
yikes! I'll definitely remember to lock up on the guys' side but it does sound like an inside job cos I think a gym member going through several lockers would look suspicious while a staff doing it looks pretty normal.
cavalock: This is at Raffles, and currently only in the women’s rooms, and all casual talk points to lunch-time incidents. Dunno if it will uhh spread. Don’t bring cash or untraceable valuables to the gym if you can!
Dunno about the ‘who’. It’s vexing.
Yah, I'm only at Raffles. Will just bring lunch money!
cavalock: I'm literally writing Post-It notes to stick on my locker too. Like. 'I've clearly locked this.' And if I come back to an opened locker, jeng jeng jengggg!
ur $100 note was just too tempting......
yes.. too much of a coincidence if so many people suspect that their money went missing.. sure hope the management does something about it!!
nua-ster: Fingers crossed!
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