Of all things worth stealing, why would a person steal clothes?

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It's crazy how one action by someone can ruin the rest of your day. As for most people, Monday is a busy day for me as we have the most lectures including a dissection session of three hours. I made the terrible mistake not washing and ironing my clothes on Sunday afternoon because I was out of school and since I came back really late, also coupled with the shortage of water supply in the school, I had no option than to wash only the clothew I would wear on Monday to the lectures. The clothes include a necktie, a long sleeve shirt and a black plain trouser. I started washing at 9:00pm but since I was washing only one sect, it took me less than an hour to finish washing. I dried the clothes on the line and went off to sleep, actually, I had used the last of my strength to wah the clothes.

Waking up in the morning, I met with my greatest shock since resumption. The clothesline on which I dried the clothes was empty except for some houseflies who were probably trying to catch some warmth. The clothes were nowhere to be found! I didn't want to think of them as stolen so I went back to the room to ask a roommate of mine who happened to wash his clothes around the same time I did, he said he removed his clothes around dawn and by that time, mine weren't completely dried so he had left them. I then asked the neighboring room members if any of them had accidentally included clothes that weren't theirs. None of them answered yes.

Well, I accepted it in the end. The clothes were gone and probably gone for good. The worst part was that I bought them about two weeks ago, equally worse was that the lectures were to begin in about 30 minutes time(I didn't wake up early to prepare adequately as I was tired the night before) and all my official clothes were dirty. I started getting a bit angry so I hurriedly went to take a bath to cool down my nerves. I had to miss an hour of the lecture to speed-wash a light robe not exactly meant for attending lectures. I washed it, blew it then ironed it while it was still wet to speedily dry it. I donned it on and off I went to the lectures, actually felt a little happier.

I find it hard to find a reason why anyone would steal clothing items. It seems really crazy to me. There are even people who go a disgusting extra length to steal underwears of clothing lines. Can you believe that? I mean a person could literally have a skin infection or transferable BO, doesn't that mean anything to them? If ever I consider talking something that isn't mine, I wouldn't stoop as low as to steal clothing items off lines.