Almost Robbed in Belgium
We (Calvin, 3 friends, and I) were tired when we arrived by bus to Brussels, Belgium and night was quickly approaching. We didn't have a place to stay, so we were searching for a hostel. None of us had a smartphone so we had to rely on a good old-fashioned map and the people on the street. A guy told us a name for a great hostel and even circled it on our map. The problem was we couldn't find it. We ended up chatting with a guy named Daniel on the way and he told us we could go to his apartment to use his internet. The two guys went up while us three girls waited in the mail room which was next to the apartment entrance, but you needed a key to get into the apartment area. We saw two guys peering through the windows, but assumed they lived there when they entered and began to check their mailbox. Things quickly got strange. It turns out they didn't live there! We had all of our hiking backpacks in a pile on the floor, and one of the guys pretended to faint on top of our backpacks, and was gasping the word, “water!”, but it was a set up to distract us, so the other guy could steal some of our stuff. We panicked of course, as it was now dark, and we were just 3 girls alone there. But then we saw two more guys peering in the windows and we yelled, “Help, they are trying to rob us.”
The guys came to our rescue and the two thieves quickly fled the scene. “Wow, we thought they were with you girls, a part of your group,” Our rescuers said. “No, no,” we said, thank you for rescuing us!” They used the key to get us into the apartment area. I'm still thankful for them! What a strange experience!
Keywords
Hostel a cheap place to spend the night, normally a shared space.
Faked pretended, it's not really happening.
Peering through looking into.
