Saturday, April 29, 2006

Call The Fashion Police!

The door was unlocked when I entered my office yesterday morning.
My first thought? "What idiot didn't lock up last night?"
My second thought? "Why did they leave the place in such a mess?"
Then it dawned on me, "We've been robbed!"

Someone had smashed through the glass door from the fire escaped and turned the place upsidedown!

After a quick inspection, (it's only a small place), I came up with a list of what had been taken:
Samples from our spring line; tanks, low placket henleys, lightweight split neck tunics, little cardis - they had left the shrugs behind - these crooks know fashion!!!
Our two digital cameras were gone containing all the photos of our winter line that I had yet to download.
We have a show starting this weekend, it could've been a lot worse - the majority of the samples had been taken to our showroom the previous day - phew!

A boxed pair of shoes I had bought that were a size too small and had been meaning to return were also missing.
Other items; two rolls of stamps, a ridiculously small amount of petty cash, the cheques and a sports watch.

My secret yarn stash was still there - these were not knitting thieves!

Thank god they didn't take the computers!

Our security has now been totally rienforced and I will now remember to back up files and return unwanted items to shops promptly!

That was the start of my day. The ending wasn't that good either.....

I spent almost 3hrs waiting at UPS for a package that I had already waited around for a couple of days ago - the worst part?
I DIDN'T HAVE ANY KNITTING WITH ME!!!! WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?!!!!!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heather, how awful! How scary--and bizarre, too, that someone would steal your samples!?!
I hope today is a much better one for you.

Jessamyn said...

Yipes! I wonder if it was industrial espionage? Or maybe it was an inside job....

Passionknitly said...

Oh no!!!

Anonymous said...

OMG! Now I know why you weren't feeling so great on Sat =( What selective thieves, though, to leave your computers behind -- V weird!