too much responsibility

Every time Janelle gets up to go to the bathroom or the kitchen or anywhere she asks me to watch her bag(s). I have no problem watching it, its just that sometimes she is gone for like twenty minutes. I don't give a fuck if she is gone all afternoon, I just don't want to be responsible for anyone's personal possessions. She always says "yuuu guuing tu bee hur?" "Yeah I'll be here." Does that mean I am obligated to sit here and watch her bag the ENTIRE time she is gone? As I said before sometimes she can be gone for quite a while. Inevitably I forget that I am supposed to be watching her bag and end up leaving my post only to remember five minutes later that her bag was left unattended. I run back my desk and of course all nine of her bags are sitting right where she left them. Phew.

I am just really bad at remembering to do things that I find unimportant. Why doesn't she just lock her bag in her desk like everyone else. If it is so important that it needs to be watched, why not just lock it up? And yeah sure, I think I am going to be here but what if Matt needs emergency copies made? Am I supposed to lug all her crap with me? Or wait until she gets back?

I am usually on my way back from getting some chocolate chip cookies when I realize that I was supposed to be watching her bag. Then I get all nervous and run back to my desk ASAP. I am not sure if I am more afraid of her bag getting stolen or of her seeing that I am not "watching" her bag. I would hate for her to come back and realize that I don't take my responsibility seriously. I mean I don't, but we are friends and I wouldn't want her to know that.

Anyway, she hasn't caught me not watching her bag yet so I am safe on that end but I always fear that a perpetrator didn't steal the entire bag but went through and just took her wallet. Then she wouldn't even notice until she was at home or something. Then the next day she would say "Wur yu hure the whoole tim I was out on break yusturday?" I then would of course have to lie because at that point I wouldn't know her wallet had been stolen. "Yes. Of course." Then she would tell me her wallet had been stolen and that was the only point in the day that it could have happened. Great. Then I'd have to start spinning a web of lies only to do a 180 and break down with the truth.

But I wonder what she would say if she came back from and saw her shit missing, and me just chatting away on the phone. Knowing Janelle she would just blame herself. I would have to agree with that reaction because I don't really think I should be responsible for anything. Not at this stage of the game.

Well hopefully that wont happen and I will become more careful with my responsibilities. I wouldn't want the person watching my bag to go wandering the halls looking for free cookies. But then again I would never ask some to watch my bag when there is a perfectly capable drawer with a lock on it right next to my chair. Hmmmm. Interesting.