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I was in Prague. That’s professional conference. It will be useful in daily life. I saved money so I booked a hostel for accommodation. There were four bunk beds in the room. I had to sleep with strangers.

I came in the evening and czeched in. The hostel was clean and even stylish. The crew was young and lively. The price was relatively low. I got a magnetic card which was necessary to activate the elevator and to open the door of my room. I stepped into the room. There was nobody alive, but I guessed that I would sleep with 4 girls (or gays) by the things left on the lower bed frames. I chose one of the upper bed frames, dropped my luggage onto it and went out to the old town with my colleague to try Czech beer.

I came back after a couple of hours. Maybe there would be some party in the room? That would be fun!

I opened the door. It was dark inside. And the room was full of sleepers. Some guy was snoring in my bed and my things were missing. WTF!? Then an Asian-looking girl woke up.
“Do you know where my things are” – I asked her.
“My friend put them on that bed. Probably you didn’t notice that this bed was already reserved. And that one was the only free bed in the room left, I guess..” – she pointed a bed at the door.
“OK. It’s strange that it was reserved, but there was no sign about that. But I am OK with this bed too.”
We exchanged a few more sentences. She traveled with her friends around Europe. The next morning she would go by an excursion bus to watch the city. So they went to bed that early. She would stay there one more night. That meant that my neighbors would still change.

When I came back to my room the last night, most of roommates had been left. I wanted to go up to my bed, but what’s that!? Some Asian guy was sleeping there. And the things that I had left in the morning (a book, shower materials, towel, and something else) were gone. I lightened the room by my cell phone. Nothing was left. WTF again!? I tried to wake the Asian guy and have it out. But he didn’t react. Just an unknown short-haired girl woke up in a bed nearby.
“Have you seen my things” – I asked. Somebody is sleeping in my bed.
“Really? No, I haven’t seen anything. I came here about five and fell asleep after a journey of 24 hours.”
“This seems to me like a detective story. Where did you come from?”
“San Diego, California.”
“Wow! How did you decide to visit Europe? Why Prague?”
“I was in Paris. I liked it a lot. So I decided to return back to Europe once more. It’s Prague because it’s beautiful here and relatively cheap. I work in a bar in America…”
So we got into conversation.

After a while I went down to the administrator to clarify what to do about the missing things. He offered me another room and suggested to ask about the things in the morning (a cleaner might have misunderstood and cleaned my bed). I told him that I would stay in the same room, because there still were empty beds. I chose to sleep above the American with whom I still talked about travels, Lithuania, education systems, and spare time.

In the morning, I exchanged a word with the Asian guy sleeping in my bed. He just found an empty bed and settled there. I had to wait at the registration until the cleaners of the hostel came to work. Soon I got my missing things back. That had been just some misunderstanding. I checked out from hostel, had my breakfast in a bar, and went to watch the last-day presentations of the conference.