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Does this happen to everyone?

My wallet got stolen today. And it gets even better. It had my passport in it. With all my money and credit cards. And it gets better still. I am in China right now. In a country where even getting water is a problem because people just don’t know any English. My flight back is on Monday. And today being a Saturday the embassy is shut. And it will be tomorrow as well. I will have to beg and plead with the Indian embassy to issue an Emergency Landing certificate to me if I have to catch my flight back. AND because I have a history of losing/wrecking my phones/wallets nobody believes that someone actually stole it. No. It’s not that my family is not being supportive and giving me a hard time about the whole incident. My sister (her passport was at the hotel so she was a lot calmer), who is travelling with me called the cops. My parents, who are back home, immediately took control of the situation (as I was obviously nearing hysteria) called someone they knew in the Indian embassy ...