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!