Just when I thought it couldn't get any more interesting...

Interesting does not even begin to describe this past week.  So many things have contributed to making it the most interesting week at college or in life so far.  Between tests, papers, attempting to keep a social life, and rush I was definitely feeling overwhelmed.  There was one event though that separated this week from all of the others. With so much going on I guess I let my guard down and here is what happened.

It was Friday afternoon, same as every Friday, except almost every "rushee" was at Wal-Mart trying to find costumes to wear to rush skits that night.  I was also there with three of my best friends.  We were goofing around on the Halloween costume aisle trying on everything that we could-just having fun.  Not wanting to be bogged down with holding on to our purses we threw them all into our basket.  Nothing could happen to them because we were standing right there-and it was Wal-Mart filled with a bunch of college students.  With so many people out on the same mission, we were sure to run into somebody we knew. 

Hearing familiar voices on the next aisle, my three friends and I ran over there to say "hey."  Not even 15 seconds later we realized that we left our purses in our basket.  Apparently that was long enough for somebody to grab my purse out the basket and take off with it.  The next 30 minutes felt like a lifetime.  We searched the aisle up and down, as well as the neighboring aisles.  We searched the car that we came in, 2 of my friends even went back to the school and searched all the dorms I'd been in that day - only finding my phone which luckily I forget in my friend's room.  We called the police and filed a report, the video was run over and over turning up absolutely nothing - which personally I find ridiculous seeing as there are cameras everywhere.  There was nothing else that I could do - I was hysterical. 

In an attempt to make me feel better my friends pushed me to just keep shopping for our costumes and even offered to pay for what I needed.  We finished in the costume aisle and headed to the other side of Wal-Mart to find something we needed in the hardware section.  As I moped across Wal-Mart just turning down random aisles in an attempt to get across the store avoiding as many people as possible, I decided to walk down the empty kitchenware aisle.  

As I made my way down the aisle, I noticed a neglected shopping cart with 2 sweatshirts and a yellow LSU hat- just like the one that was stolen along with my purse. I mentioned this to my friends and kept my eyes on the basket as I continued down the aisle.  As soon as I passed the basket I was still looking back at it when I noticed a tan strap hanging down.  I ran to the basket and threw off the sweatshirts to find my purse!  My camera and all the cards out my wallet were taken - they left my lip gloss and Burt's Bee's.  I can't even begin to explain my joy at this moment.  My car keys were still there, I had my purse back, and my LSU hat.  All my cash was gone, but I'm a college student now - I had $2 at the MOST.  There may have been some pennies in there too.  After frantically searching the basket for any of my stuff that may have fallen out all I found were some buffalo wings from the deli.  I finally began to calm down as we payed for what we needed and left Wal-Mart.  I still can't believe what happened when I think about it.  Luckily all they got was a camera out of the whole ordeal.  My credit and debit cards were cancelled and are being reissued, I already got a new student ID made, and it was the one time I forgot to bring my phone with me.  So, I guess it could've been worse.  Thank God that it wasn't. 

Moral of the story - Don't think just because you wouldn't do something doesn't mean somebody else won't.