I always
enjoyed living with my family; we shared so much and experienced a lot of
memories together. Ever since I was a little girl, from the first steps, to
doing homework with my mom, to hugging daddy when he came from work, to the
chores I hated… I loved it all about living with them, but like many adults,
time eventually came to go to college and since my school was out of my
hometown, I had to move out and find a place and along with it: a roommate.
I had done
extensive research about roommate etiquette, the dos and the don’ts about
sharing quarters with someone else. I thought I knew it all (theoretically
anyway) but a lot of people say rightfully so that there is a very long stretch
of distance from theory to practice. I experienced this first hand with my
first roommate. She seemed nice, outgoing, and I even enjoyed her company at
first. Everything went smoothly for a while but all of a sudden I noticed some
things missing in one of my drawers (the one where I had placed my valuables
such as gadgets, jewelry, cash etc.) it was probably wishful thinking on my
part to assume that nothing would ever happen if I left cash lying around the
apartment. I guess I was naive.
I
confronted my roommate about this issue and sure enough, she confessed after
extensive probing that she had been the source of my ‘’leaks’’. We had
co-signed a lease so I had to suck it up for a while since it would have been
very costly to break up our arrangement. Another permanent life lesson was to inquire
more thoroughly whenever associating myself with anyone especially on a
contract.
I called a locksmith in El Paso, Texas and had
them come in and install locks on the drawers, my closet and an extra lock on
my bedroom. The incidents obviously stopped but had it not been for my
detection of the leaks and the good efforts of the El Paso locksmith firm, who knows what else could have been gone!
