I shared my student accommodation with Sally. A bedroom each, a kitchen and a sitting area. It wasn't the best of places to live, but we had a lot better than most students. Sally was fun to live with. Not too serious, not too silly. She was athletic but did drink a bit too much.
We did heaps together. Like Sheldon Cooper, Thursday night was laundry night. That would mean we had the maximum selection of clothes if we went out on a Friday or Saturday. Laundry night was also wine night.
We had a little routine going. Walk downstairs to the basement to put on the laundry, go back upstairs to open a bottle of wine, drink some wine, and then collect our laundry. We put the laundry on and went back upstairs to open the wine. We were talking shit like we normally did when Sally said that I must have a lot of her panties mixed it with my laundry. Me? It was SHE that had MY panties. She said it was definitely me taking her underwear. It had been going on for a month.
Could? No. That would be paranoid. Could someone be stealing panties from both of us? We both had the same plan at the same time. We went down to the laundry room half-way through the wash cycle. Not talking. Walking quietly. With the help of the wine we had drunk, we felt like we were about to discover the crime of the century. We both had our phones ready to take the incriminating photos.
It was YOU!
The nerdy guy from the floor below us. No one knew your name and you didn't have a social life. You actually had a pair of panties in your hand and were sniffing them. If that wasn't bad enough, you turned around in fright and...well... let's just say that we could see through your jeans that you were hard. Word of advice. Don't wear light blue jeans if you want to hide erections.
We had the photos. You pleaded with us. You would buy us more. As if we wanted that. You had been caught before, so another complaint and you would be expelled.
We told you to just fuck off and you left. You left the panties behind, and we threw them in the bin. We weren't going to wear them after they had been pushed against your nose. Sally and me talked. Whether we should make a complaint. We were so fucking angry. Laundry finished and more wine later, we both got dressed as if going out, and went down to your apartment. Sally was very drunk. Although against the rules, we walked through the corridors with a new bottle of wine and two glasses. Sally was carrying a large plastic bag of...whatever it was. We knocked on the door. The door opened.