Maya always brought her lunch to work in the same blue lunch bag. For two weeks, though, something strange kept happening. By early afternoon, her lunch was gone from the office fridge. At first she thought she had simply forgotten it at home. But she checked twice and knew she hadn't.
玛雅总是用同一个蓝色的饭盒包带午饭去上班。可是两个星期以来，一件怪事不断发生。到了下午刚过不久，她的午饭就不在办公室的冰箱里了。起初她以为自己只是忘在了家里。可她查了两遍，知道自己并没有忘。
She mentioned it to her coworker Oscar, who sat at the desk next to hers. "Maybe someone's taking it by accident," he said. "I've seen that happen before in big offices like this."
她跟坐在隔壁工位的同事奥斯卡提了这件事。“也许有人不小心拿错了，”他说，“在这样的大办公室里，我以前见过这种事。”
Maya wasn't convinced, so she decided to pay closer attention. On Monday, she wrote her name on a sticky note. She stuck it to the bag before leaving it in the fridge. By one o'clock, the bag had vanished again, sticky note and all.
玛雅不太相信，于是她决定更留心一些。周一，她在一张便利贴上写下自己的名字，贴在饭盒包上，才把它放进冰箱。到了一点钟，那个包又不见了，连便利贴一起。
That evening, she stayed a little later than usual and watched the kitchen from her desk. Around noon the next day, she saw a young man from the marketing team walk into the kitchen. He opened the fridge and took a blue lunch bag without checking the label. He was already halfway down the hall before Maya caught up with him.
那天晚上，她比平时多留了一会儿，从自己的座位上盯着茶水间。第二天中午前后，她看见市场部的一个年轻男子走进茶水间。他打开冰箱，没看标签就拿走了一个蓝色的饭盒包。玛雅追上他的时候，他已经走到走廊中间了。
"I think that might be mine," she said, trying to sound friendly rather than annoyed.
“我想那个可能是我的，”她说，尽量让语气显得友好，而不是恼火。
The man looked embarrassed. "I'm so sorry! I just started last week, and someone told me this fridge was for anyone to use. I have the exact same bag, and I honestly didn't check the name."
男子显得很尴尬。“真对不起！我上周刚入职，有人跟我说这个冰箱谁都可以用。我也有一模一样的包，我真的没看名字。”
Once they compared bags side by side, the mix-up made sense. Both bags were the same shade of blue, bought from the same shop near the station.
他们把两个包并排一比，这场弄混就说得通了。两个包是同一种蓝色，都是在车站附近的同一家店里买的。
Maya laughed, more relieved than upset. "At least now I know I'm not losing my mind."
玛雅笑了，松了口气，比起难过更觉得释然。“至少现在我知道自己没有糊涂了。”
The new employee offered to buy her lunch to make up for it, and she happily agreed. From then on, Maya wrote her initials on her bag in permanent marker. The mystery of the vanishing lunch was finally solved.
那位新同事提出请她吃午饭作为补偿，她高兴地答应了。从那以后，玛雅用记号笔把自己名字的首字母写在了包上。午饭失踪之谜，终于解开了。
