The Newspaper Thief

Life in a community has its downsides as well. Over a long period of time you become a team and you rely on each other. However, if you are not too careful anymore - it happens...

That is exactly what happened to me last week when someone caught me red-handed stealing newspaper.

At 7 am in the morning I was catching downstairs Stephan´s newspaper as always. On this day as well as on the previous 3-4 days I also took newspaper from the neighbors as according to Stephan those fellows were on vacation for a week and would not be able to read it.

Well strange enough that this neighbor appeared on the staircase gave me this strange look. However, he did not say anything - not yet. So later on I went to fetch a cafe latte from a bar and then I ran into this neighbor again and he asked me pretty rude if I had taken his newspaper. Well, of course I said yes as he was supposed to be on vacation as my host told me so. He was not amused and I gave him his newspaper back. Since then the neighbor is less friendly even though I greet him in the most agreeable way. At least he did not put in a charge against me - as far as I know ... :o)