A friend of mine asked if she could borrow my camera last weekend. She's the same girl who I've been complaining about in the thread discussing when it's too late to phone.
She's been really forgetful lately and leaving her stuff all over. She's lost her phone and had to get a new one, she left her glasses at a friends house etc etc. I didn't want to lend her the camera. I had a feeling that I wouldn't get it back but Jon made me feel guilty and so I said she could borrow it as long as she was responsible for it, which she agreed to.
So anyways, she's back from her trip on Monday, says she'll drop the camera off on Thursday. I figure this means she'll pop by after work and do it.
No, I get a text from another friend on Thursday evening saying that the friend who borrowed the camera asked her to text me and let her know that she's left the camera underneath the milk bottle holder. I got outside and look in but there's no camera. So I phone my friend and leave a message asking her to call me back as there is no camera.
She phones back and says she left it that morning, around 6am or so. Well, the milkman comes on Thursdays around 6:30 am, so we can only assume that he's taken it.
So my ridiculously stupid friend left my camera with the empty milk bottles, thieving milkman takes it, drops off our milk and I'm left without a camera.
Jon was on the phone with her for a good while, told her she was totally ridiculous to leave it under the milk holder. Why didn't she put it through the mail slot? We just couldn't understand why she thought that'd be a safe place to leave it. She got all defensive and funny about how it was a shame we couldn't trust our milkman because hers is perfectly trustworthy!
She obviously was going to have to buy a new one but as this one was a couple years old, they didn't sell it anymore so she'd have to buy the next model that they still sold. She's due to have a baby in May and she's single, so she really couldn't afford buying a £150 camera.
Well, she took our milkman's details off us and phoned him and he's admitted to taking it! Said he didn't know what to do with it. (Why not just leave it?) We think that once he heard it was left there only 30 minutes or so before he arrived, he couldn't really blame the theft on someone else. We're currently waiting for him to drop by and bring it back to us.
It's such a crappy situation. At first I felt guilty for making her buy me a new camera even though she was totally stupid in the first place. However, we're having babies soon and I need a camera! We're now going to have to fire our milkman because we can't trust the guy with such privileged information such as when we're on holiday. And I hate that the most, I like supporting our local farmers and getting local milk straight to our door.
