Chooseday: I guess it happens

Two weeks ago I felt like I was crushing life. After cleaning the house, my husband and I went for lunch then some monthly grocery shopping. Half way through shopping, Fitbit let me know I nailed my step goal. Because of a few adjustments in my shopping my total was under R1500 of my estimate. I felt very good. Until I got into the car and realised my phone was gone.

So unreal and impossible. I thought I had misplaced it at the Wimpy but when my husband called it, it went to voicemail. I have never lost a phone. I'm always super vigilant. Thinking back, someone pick pocketed me. If they took it out of my handbag they would have taken my wallet too. I feel so violated that someone came into me personal space and stole from me, off me.

First I was angry that all my photos, videos and music was gone. Then that I have so many personal things on there. I never logged out of any of my apps. It's the number I do my banking on. I don't usually upgrade to a top phone and my sister convinced me to get a better phone. My contract amount doubled. So I'm paying for a phone that I don't even have. (I thought I'd just buy a new one but that is a R6700 phone, that pissed me off even more)

I blocked the sim and the phone got blacklisted but we all know there are low-lives who 'un-blacklist' phones for a living. Only now I see you can sign up to Samsung to delete all your things. That helps me a lot now.

Went to the police station and the first one made me feel like a criminal. I didn't know where to go in. Around a corner around another corner there is a sign that says “Customer service”. -_- The cop was too lazy to do the job so we had to go to another police station. He was a real shit head that was all “if the crime was committed in Cape Town you have to report it in cape town” yet it was committed only in the next suburb and “it would be too much work for him to do that paper work as it needs to be transfered“.

Now I don't even want to imagine if a rape victim had to deal in that place. It hurts my heart. For me it's a phone for them it's their body. No money can fix that.

I realise I should let it go into the universe and carry on with my life. No one got hurt or died. It just tarnished my view on life a bit. I always fight to see the other side of people. But now I'm like, was it the school children that pushed passed me? Was it the rude lady who brushed against me without saying excuse me? Was it the “helpful” poor old man that came close to say a till was open?

Ulg life.

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