Sometimes, what you think might be a crime is not always true. You make an assumption and the larger percent of chances are, it becomes a mystery. You walk into a room and sense that something is not what it should be. You search the area for signs, but can’t put you finger on anything unusual.
Earlier in the day the Pet shop ran out of cat food and the dogs won’t eat their own food. The cat food is better. All the distributors are closed and won’t be open again until the first of next week and this is one of them five day week-ends. Your luck is running true to normal. You know they all want that steak you were going to have for Sunday dinner. But you will let them starve to death before they get it.
Meanwhile, Carter Whitney down at the drug store is putting together a ice cream soda for the girl of his dreams. She never can make up her mind as to what she wants, she likes everything sweet and it shows on her four ft. six inch , 205 pound frame. It’s hard to tell her apart from her father and mother and siblings, I have heard that it’s the eye lashes that makes the resemblance.
You still can’t figure out what has changed in that room! But you know that something is wrong. Maybe if you ask, you can find out who was in that room this morning. Hey, you remember that bottle of scotch in the top drawer in that old desk, better check and see if it is still there. It’s not there, it’s missing. Now who likes scotch around here. Better find out!
Boy, that was a big mistake, it seems that everyone drinks that stuff. But the matter keeps knawing at you. There has to be something and you remember that it was a little on the cool side in that room, could there be a window open ? Back you go and sure enough. A window has been left open. Foot prints outside, you had better check that out. What you find is a bunch of small animal tracks, no shoe prints in the soil. Well, there could have been a clue!
It’s Sunday and that steak is on the grill. Some one is ringing the door bell and that dam phone is ringing again. It’s been ringing all morning long and nine out of ten times it’s a wrong number. By the time you make it back to the grill, the steak is black and hard as a brick. You know them dogs will turn up their noses at it, but if you give it to the cats, them dogs will steal it and gobble it down faster than the speed of light.
Carter Whitney is still behind the soda fountain preparing yet another ice cream soda for his girl friend with the ferocious appetite. This starts him to think, If I marry this girl, she will eat me out of business. “No, the price is just too high to pay”! He will have to think of a way to get rid of her. But she and her family have their hooks deep into him and he will have to find a way to make it look like an accident. He thinks to himself, this is a Drug store and there are a lot of poisonous materials here. No, that won’t work, if they find poison they will think it was him right away. Hey, there are things that can’t be traced in a drink with liquors.
Now you are thinking that you know where the bottle of scotch went, don’t you ? Well it happens that you are right! Anyway, after the funeral, he was counting his good fortune and the matter was soon forgotten.
Meanwhile the dogs become sick and had to be taken to see a Vet. The vet said this was highly unusual, charcoal is often found to be a cure for a sickness or poison taken by man or animal. The druggist had poured the unused portion of that poisonous drink, back into the bottle and tossed it into the trash can. Now you know how cats are in digging through trash cans and them dogs were watching. They chased the cats away and claimed what the cats had found.
Well one dog survived and the other joined old friends in the promised land. This time they found finger prints on the bottle and they belonged to an older lady that worked in the drug store. No one ever knew she was boozer and she was always thought of very highly. The lady served her time in prison and when she was released from prison she was taken to a nursing home and had later passed on there. The matter was again forgotten.
Now you are thinking, that druggist is a crook and a murder. But you are not alone. A number of people are becoming suspicious of him. Not that they know anything, but because he has been acting funny and there has been a change in his personality. Dogs growl at him and the hair on a cats back stands up and their tail becomes stiff and straight when he passes by, These animals know something that the people don’t! The Drug Store is losing business and will soon go under. Nature or something else has a way to punish those that are guilty.
Cats and dogs are sharing their food with each other and the pet shop is doing a booming business. A new drug store has opened in a small mall and it looks like it will be successful. The last election has brought in a new sheriff and the town appears to be growing. A new library has been built and several other new buildings, one being a youth center. Schools are overflowing and there is a need for a hospital and some new doctors. Prices are out of control as they are in most cities and towns.
No matter which way you turn, you are falling over a politician. The number of Democrats and Republican are about equal and together they accomplish nothing. Religious groups are popping up all over and the war is going badly. Divorcé rates are going down and the number of fatherless children is increasing. Man stands a chance of winning about 2% of the battles with his wife. There hasn’t been another murder since the one at the beginning of this story.
Now if you are looking for a peaceful neighbor hood to move too, don’t come to this one. People are considered to not be very friendly here. You never know what will happen next.
It is said: the local mortician favors those of the same sex and people that die do not want to be touched by him. As the world turns, everything comes to an end!!!
Ben R. Bauer
Sept. 8, 2007
Earlier in the day the Pet shop ran out of cat food and the dogs won’t eat their own food. The cat food is better. All the distributors are closed and won’t be open again until the first of next week and this is one of them five day week-ends. Your luck is running true to normal. You know they all want that steak you were going to have for Sunday dinner. But you will let them starve to death before they get it.
Meanwhile, Carter Whitney down at the drug store is putting together a ice cream soda for the girl of his dreams. She never can make up her mind as to what she wants, she likes everything sweet and it shows on her four ft. six inch , 205 pound frame. It’s hard to tell her apart from her father and mother and siblings, I have heard that it’s the eye lashes that makes the resemblance.
You still can’t figure out what has changed in that room! But you know that something is wrong. Maybe if you ask, you can find out who was in that room this morning. Hey, you remember that bottle of scotch in the top drawer in that old desk, better check and see if it is still there. It’s not there, it’s missing. Now who likes scotch around here. Better find out!
Boy, that was a big mistake, it seems that everyone drinks that stuff. But the matter keeps knawing at you. There has to be something and you remember that it was a little on the cool side in that room, could there be a window open ? Back you go and sure enough. A window has been left open. Foot prints outside, you had better check that out. What you find is a bunch of small animal tracks, no shoe prints in the soil. Well, there could have been a clue!
It’s Sunday and that steak is on the grill. Some one is ringing the door bell and that dam phone is ringing again. It’s been ringing all morning long and nine out of ten times it’s a wrong number. By the time you make it back to the grill, the steak is black and hard as a brick. You know them dogs will turn up their noses at it, but if you give it to the cats, them dogs will steal it and gobble it down faster than the speed of light.
Carter Whitney is still behind the soda fountain preparing yet another ice cream soda for his girl friend with the ferocious appetite. This starts him to think, If I marry this girl, she will eat me out of business. “No, the price is just too high to pay”! He will have to think of a way to get rid of her. But she and her family have their hooks deep into him and he will have to find a way to make it look like an accident. He thinks to himself, this is a Drug store and there are a lot of poisonous materials here. No, that won’t work, if they find poison they will think it was him right away. Hey, there are things that can’t be traced in a drink with liquors.
Now you are thinking that you know where the bottle of scotch went, don’t you ? Well it happens that you are right! Anyway, after the funeral, he was counting his good fortune and the matter was soon forgotten.
Meanwhile the dogs become sick and had to be taken to see a Vet. The vet said this was highly unusual, charcoal is often found to be a cure for a sickness or poison taken by man or animal. The druggist had poured the unused portion of that poisonous drink, back into the bottle and tossed it into the trash can. Now you know how cats are in digging through trash cans and them dogs were watching. They chased the cats away and claimed what the cats had found.
Well one dog survived and the other joined old friends in the promised land. This time they found finger prints on the bottle and they belonged to an older lady that worked in the drug store. No one ever knew she was boozer and she was always thought of very highly. The lady served her time in prison and when she was released from prison she was taken to a nursing home and had later passed on there. The matter was again forgotten.
Now you are thinking, that druggist is a crook and a murder. But you are not alone. A number of people are becoming suspicious of him. Not that they know anything, but because he has been acting funny and there has been a change in his personality. Dogs growl at him and the hair on a cats back stands up and their tail becomes stiff and straight when he passes by, These animals know something that the people don’t! The Drug Store is losing business and will soon go under. Nature or something else has a way to punish those that are guilty.
Cats and dogs are sharing their food with each other and the pet shop is doing a booming business. A new drug store has opened in a small mall and it looks like it will be successful. The last election has brought in a new sheriff and the town appears to be growing. A new library has been built and several other new buildings, one being a youth center. Schools are overflowing and there is a need for a hospital and some new doctors. Prices are out of control as they are in most cities and towns.
No matter which way you turn, you are falling over a politician. The number of Democrats and Republican are about equal and together they accomplish nothing. Religious groups are popping up all over and the war is going badly. Divorcé rates are going down and the number of fatherless children is increasing. Man stands a chance of winning about 2% of the battles with his wife. There hasn’t been another murder since the one at the beginning of this story.
Now if you are looking for a peaceful neighbor hood to move too, don’t come to this one. People are considered to not be very friendly here. You never know what will happen next.
It is said: the local mortician favors those of the same sex and people that die do not want to be touched by him. As the world turns, everything comes to an end!!!
Ben R. Bauer
Sept. 8, 2007
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