The apartment building bought a new washing machine for everyone to use. It was supposed to make life easier. Instead, it caused an argument that lasted almost three months. The building had eight apartments, and everyone agreed to contribute toward the machine. One tenant volunteered to buy it because she had a discount through her employer. Everyone transferred their share. The machine arrived the following week. For the first few days, everything was fine. Then someone overloaded it. The machine stopped working. The tenant who bought it called the repair company. They said the damage wasn't covered because it had been overloaded. She sent the repair bill to the building group chat. Nobody replied. The next morning, someone wrote "Why should we pay for something one person broke?" She replied "Exactly." That was when everyone realized nobody knew who had actually broken it. They checked the laundry room camera. It showed several people using the machine that week. But the camera didn't face the controls. Nobody admitted anything. Then one tenant said, "Maybe we should check the times." Everyone looked at the footage again. There was only one problem. The machine had been used at a time when nobody claimed to have been doing laundry. The machine had been running at 2:13 a.m. The camera showed someone entering the laundry room. But they were wearing a hood and carrying a large black laundry bag. Nobody could identify them. The building group chat immediately exploded. People started accusing each other. One neighbor said it was probably the tenant on the top floor because she worked night shifts. She denied it. Another said it could have been the couple in apartment three. They denied it too. Then someone noticed something strange. The person in the footage wasn't carrying the same type of laundry basket anyone in the building used. They were carrying a large commercial-looking bag. The building manager checked the CCTV from the entrance. At 2:06 a.m., someone had entered through the front door. They weren't a resident. They had been let in by someone from inside the building. Now everyone wanted to know who had opened the door. The manager checked the footage. The person who let them in was standing just outside the camera's view. But there was one thing the camera clearly captured. A pair of distinctive white trainers. Someone in the group recognized them. And suddenly nobody was talking.