Can someone translate this sentence into English?
Te dio miedo que te la robaran del casillero y seguro se te cayo? en las ma?quinas.
I'm especially confused by the last phrase.
Gracias
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Máquina de ejercicio
A friend is telling the guy that while he was afraid that someone might steal his wallet from his locker, surely he dropped it - or it fell out of a pocket - at the exercise machines. (The wallet is missing).
The context is this. Person 1 is talking about the locker room at the gym. The staff told him to lock up his belongings. He forgot to bring a lock and someone stole his wallet. The friend he is describing this to, person 2, responds "Te dio miedo que te la robaran del casillero y seguro se te cayo? en las ma?quinas."
I'm not sure if "caer en las máquinas" is an idiomatic expression, because literally, in the context, it doesn't make much sense to me.
Wow, that is a tough one. The first part is clear enough and any translator could give you a good enough idea even if you didn't know Spanish, but that last phrase, "se te cayó en las máquinas" is still a bit too tricky for a machine to translate (sorry for the pun). It would help if I knew what the object pronoun "la" was referring to. I'm imagining an office setting with cubby holes or small lockers for the staff and some sort of machines below them. The person is afraid to keep whatever valuable (perhaps an important document?) in their locker/cubby but as irony would have it they person accidentally drops the valuable into a machine and loses/destroys it. Alternately it could be that a person is acusing others of having stolen something from their locker/cubby and the speaker of this sentences is explaining that what really happened is that the valuable fell out of the locker/cubby into some sort of machine.
