My old soggy walking shoes have been stolen?!

[Lozzy25]

Ok so I live in a top floor flat, only 8 flats in my block so not that many people! They are very nice flats with a code to get in to the bottom door. I know everyone who lives here and get on with them all (very nice working individuals or couples) apart from one lady who we have had a couple of problems with, for some reason she has taken a disliking to us even though we don't do anything to upset her.

On Tuesday morning I went downstairs to put on my walking shoes that are kept tucked right back under the stairs that I wear to walk dogs round muddy fields and they were gone!! These shoes are old, muddy, smelly and generally not something anyone would want. I keep my shoes there so I don't walk mud up and down the communal stairs.

So who has stolen my shoes? The only people who can get into my flats are people who live there! No one knows I keep my shoes there apart from the one lady who I don't get along with, has she taken them to annoy me? Or has a delivery driver seen them and taken them (not visible unless you get on the floor and search for them)

What would anyone want with these shoes? I have tried knocking on the door of the lady who I don't get on with as she's also management company of our complex so looks out for everyone but she is not answering now.

Sorry this is a pointless post I'm just really curious about what has happened to my shoes

How smelly were they?

It will be that lady, making a point about you leaving your shoes there. She will probably sniffily explain she thought someone had dumped rubbish under the stairs.

Thrown away. You can't leave stuff in communal areas and like you say they dont look like shoes anyone would want.

She has told me I'm allowed to keep my shoes there as I asked her it's just she has a bee in her bonnet about something for years ago so maybe she's decided to just take them now to annoy me!

They didn't smell that much that you could smell them in the hallway! Just if you sniffed them a bit!!

Also I have happily kept shoes there for almost a year now with no problem, other people also keep things there and they never get taken away!

Does the communal area have cameras?

Any one of the other occupants who didn't know they were yours could have found them, thought they were rubbish/abandoned and binned them.

Someone was looking under there for some other reason and thought they were rubbish.

They are more likely to have been thrown away than stolen surely?

I guess someone’s had a clear out. Maybe she impulsively threw them away and she is now ignoring you through dread.

Yeah thrown away. You can keep them there, you say, but should you have?

Take muddy shoes off and carry them up to your flat. Don't inflict the next pair on communal areas again.

Nope no cameras in the communal area. Yes maybe someone did find them and thought they were rubbish! I just don't think anyone who lives here would throw shoes out that aren't there's

I just find it strange that the lady who I don't particularly get on with isn't answering her door to me now! She usually does.

I thought it was fine for me to keep them there as I asked and was told it was ok! I didn't want to carry muddy shoes up the stairs and risk it falling off on the carpeted stairs. I will take my new pair up from now on though if I was told no then I wouldn't of left them there.

They'll be sat on an ironing board somewhere . . .

Oh I forgot to add I also checked the communal bins on Tuesday and there were not in there (I promise you I am a very clean tidy person even though checking bins and wearing old shoes doesn't make me look like it ) I just walk dogs so I wear shoes that are practical and muddy!

So if someone has taken them to throw them away they have taken them back inside their own flat to put them in their own bin.