The Missing Office Lunch
A free A2-level English story for language learners, readable online in English, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
Georgia's lunch keeps disappearing from the office fridge until she finds another woman with the same bag.
Every day, Georgia brought her lunch to work in a blue bag. She kept it in the office fridge until noon.
On Monday, her lunch was gone. She checked the fridge twice, but the blue bag was not there.
"Someone took my lunch," she said to her coworker Emeka. "I'm sure I put it in the fridge this morning."
Emeka opened the fridge and looked inside. "There's a blue bag here," he said, "but it's not yours. It has a different name on it."
Georgia looked again. The bag said "Georgina" in small letters.
"That's not my name," she said. "But it looks just like my bag."
On Tuesday, the same thing happened again. Georgia's lunch was gone again. A similar blue bag with the name "Georgina" sat in its place.
"There are two blue bags in this office," Emeka said. "You and Georgina both use the same kind."
They found Georgina at a desk across the building. She laughed when she heard the story.
"I grab the first blue bag I see," Georgina said. "I never check the name."
"Let's write our names in big letters next time," Georgia said.
From that day, Georgia wrote her name in bright red letters. No lunch ever disappeared again.
