I found an excuse for being messy!

Life is "interesting" and there are always untoward incidents happen along the way!

I had one last Friday. Well, it was not really a disastrous one as I discovered it early.

After a routine gym work out session, Nel and I were waiting to cross a road. It's red light then. Lots of people were around us waiting for the traffic light too. We were happily talking to each other while heading to bus stand to take a bus home.

Suddenly, I felt a jolt behind me as if somebody is trying to open my backpack. I shouted "Somebody opens my bag" and immediately I turned to my back.

OH-MYYY-GODDDD!!!!!

My bag has 3 compartments and 2 of them were wide-opened and the last one was half-opened!

I searched my wallet and hanphone promptly which were placed separately in 2 of the compartments and luckily there were still inside.

Standing right behind us were a middle-aged woman and a child, probably around 12-13yrs old. Discerning from their outlook and we can guess they might be from one of the Eastern European countries like Romania. I can't confirm (as I didn't see it spot on) whether they are the culprits who tried to open my bag but I am almost 99.9% sure that they are responsible for it!!!

It was crowded and jam-packed. I don't think the people behind them could reach my bag across them. Neither were the people beside them! So yes, they are the one!

I stared angrily at them and they did not even care to bother us! I've checked my bag and since no stuff was lost, there is no point to argue with them.

1) They obviously would not admit it.
2) I doubt that they could even speak English.
3) Nothing is lost.

Typically, when you're being stared at, wouldn't you usually would return a glance or question the person "is everything ok?" When I stared at the woman and the child, and I stared at them for quite a while, they just ignored me intentionally. Aren't they pretending to be innocent?!

Back to my title. Know the reason why they couldn't find my purse? Alright, this is not something to be proud of. But ya, because my bag is so messy. My wallet was actually at the outermost compartment and it was hidden behind a plastic bag, some tissues, a bunch of keys, bus schedule leaflets and some useless papers. All of these rubbish blocked their view.

My mobile was at the second compartment. This is again another messy compartment! There are some used bus and train tickets, lip balm, tic-tac, coins, cereal bar, etc etc etc. And of course the handphone was stucked beneath all these rubbish. Lucky me!

I don't care if I lose my purse because I don't usually put much cash in my purse. The maximum would be 50 euro only. However what concern me most are the atm card and identity card!

After this incident, instead of keeping those important cards in my purse, I put them in a card holder.

Oh man, I still could not believe it was a child who was trying to steal my purse!