A Well-Dressed Robber
A school mate, theater sorority sister and simply a friend of mine was on her way to school on board a multicab, a mini jeepney-type of public transportation in Cebu, Philippines that can accommodate eight to ten passengers. She was wearing her university uniform – a white female custom dress shirts-type of blouse with V-shaped neck line and an A-line type of navy blue knee-level skirt. It was just one of those normal weekdays where she heads off for school in the morning.
In a few blocks away from where she hopped into the multicab, a man clad in dark (almost in black shade) mens dress shirts also got into the multicab and sat beside my friend. He took the seat at the left side of my friend. The man looked like he was in his early thirties or late twenties but he seemed to look older than his average age because of some darker spots on his neatly trimmed face.
His hair was neatly in place and the dress shirts his wearing (it looks like he has a white inner shirt) was also tidily pressed and looks really presentable. He looks like any respectable man with an office-type of work. My friend even assumed he’s a medical representative because of the type of brown leather suit-case-type of hand bag he’s bringing.
When my friend reached school, she just realized that her big wallet with all her identification cards, ATMs and school allowances was gone, and to make things worst, she found out that there was a big tear on the left side of her bag. Later did she realize why the presentable-looking man in dress shirts covered his hands with his brown hand bag, as she earlier felt little movements at her left side.
She just ignored the idea of being robbed because she didn’t suspect a well-dressed man to do such crime. It was very unlikely of a robber to dress well, because their usual features rugged and badly-dressed in ordinary-looking shirts and faded denim pants.
