Linda worked as a nurse at a big hospital. She was very busy every day. She always brought her lunch from home. She put her lunch in a bag every morning. The bag was blue and had her name on it. She kept her lunch in the staff fridge. The fridge was in a small room near the hospital corridor. Linda liked her lunches very much. Today, she made a sandwich with cheese and tomato. She also packed a small salad and an apple. She was very hungry by noon. She thought about her food all morning. She smiled because she liked cheese sandwiches. She told her friend, "I have a really nice lunch today." Her friend said, "That sounds good!" Linda waited for her break. At one o'clock, Linda walked to the small room.

She opened the fridge and looked inside. Her blue bag was there, but it felt very light. She opened the bag and looked inside it. The sandwich was gone. The salad was gone too. Only the apple was there. Linda was very surprised. She looked around the room, but nobody was there. She felt sad and a little angry. She walked into the hospital corridor and saw her colleague, Tom. "Tom, did you see my lunch?" she asked. Tom shook his head and said, "No, I did not see it." Linda asked two more people, but nobody knew anything. She stood in the corridor and held her empty bag. She did not understand what happened. Then, a young doctor walked towards Linda.

He looked nervous and a little embarrassed. "Excuse me, are you Linda?" he asked. Linda nodded. He said, "I am so sorry. I ate your sandwich and your salad. I thought it was my bag. My bag is also blue." Linda looked at him. She was still upset, but she understood the mistake. The doctor said, "Please let me buy you some lunch from the canteen." Linda thought for a moment. Then she smiled and said, "Okay, that is very kind of you." They walked to the canteen together. Linda got a warm bowl of soup and some bread. She sat down and laughed a little. "Next time, I will use a red bag," she said. The doctor laughed too and said, "That is a very good idea."

Linda had been working as a nurse at the hospital for over three years, and she had developed a reliable routine when it came to her meals. Every morning before her shift, she would carefully prepare her lunch at home and pack it into a container, which she then placed in a brown paper bag labeled with her name. On this particular day, she had prepared something she had been looking forward to all week: a pasta salad with fresh vegetables and a slice of homemade cake that she had baked the night before. By midday, her stomach was growling, and she could hardly wait for her break. She had mentioned to her colleague, Sara, how excited she was about lunch, and Sara had jokingly replied, "You always have the best meals, Linda, I'm quite jealous." Linda had laughed and promised to share the recipe. As she finished attending to her last patient before her break, she felt a wave of relief and headed towards the staff room with a smile on her face. When Linda opened the fridge and reached for her paper bag, she immediately noticed that something was wrong.

The bag was far too light, and when she unfolded the top and peered inside, she discovered that her pasta salad and her cake had completely vanished, leaving only a paper napkin behind. Her heart sank as she stood frozen in the middle of the room, staring at the empty bag in disbelief. She stepped out into the hospital corridor and began asking everyone she encountered whether they had seen anyone near the fridge. Several colleagues shook their heads sympathetically, while others suggested that it might have been thrown away by accident during a routine clean. Linda felt a mixture of frustration and disappointment, because she had spent time and effort on that meal and was now left with nothing to eat during her only break. Sara, who had been passing through the corridor, noticed Linda's expression and asked, "What happened? You look like you have just received terrible news." Linda sighed and explained the situation.

About twenty minutes later, while Linda was sitting on a bench in the corridor trying to decide what to do, a junior doctor named David approached her looking rather guilty. He apologized profusely and explained that he had grabbed the wrong bag from the fridge in a rush between appointments, only realizing his error after he had already finished eating everything inside. Linda was understandably annoyed, but she could see that David was genuinely sorry and had not done it on purpose. He offered to get her a full meal from the hospital canteen to make up for it, and Linda, though still a bit frustrated, agreed with a reluctant smile. As they walked to the canteen together, David said, "That pasta salad was honestly the best thing I have eaten in weeks, so I suppose I owe you even more than just a replacement lunch." Linda could not help but laugh, and she replied, "Well, from now on, I am going to write my name in enormous letters on my bag so that nobody can possibly miss it." By the end of her break, Linda had a warm meal in front of her and had gained something she had not expected: a new friend.