Super Mystery #2: Baby-sitters Beware

[aceattorneysho]

Okay.  So.  You know how sometimes something is creepy but ALSO stupid?  Like, it's really messed up but you're also rolling your eyes?  No?  Well you're about to know about it if this book fell out of your memory.  This book has it all- mystery, stalking, unresolved plot lines, dumping on Jessi, Karen, and potential murder.

So, let's dip our toes

Comments

[miri_me]

Wait - a car taking evasive action to avoid squishing her is a clue to a threatening stalky stalker who throws rocks through windows and sets fire outside people's houses (and given that smoke kills more people than flames, even if it was just to scare them, that's *kinda* potential manslaughter in the works), etc., and she thinks that this is related..?

Or... Oh, I get it: all small business owners are evil fat cats plotting our death and destruction and doom! Down with the man! The man is what's wrong with society! They're all in on it, and trying to put the BSC out of business because they've got the market cornered and aren't BA members..!

Yes?

Or... Oh - wait... My husband's a small business owner. He provides a welcome service to people. He's about to take a sideways step and expand that. While the local radio interviewy man asked him if it was a Communist endeavour, nobody's accused him of being an evil corporate fat cat...

[aceattorneysho]

Wow... that radio guy must have drank the Kool Aid.

It's more that their only clues are the Small Business Association stickers so they can figure it out that way... but they do sort of assume the people with them are jackasses. Which, isn't Stoneybrook just ALL small businesses except for McD's and maybe Pizza Express?

[miri_me]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00qgpbt/Phil_Gayle_12_04_2012/
The segment on my huband is 1:53.26 in - and it was the first question he asked; way to help my husband relax or what?

Damn Kristy and her attempts to control the media with her Kool Aid! :-o

It's a ridiculous leap - and the fact that presumably the entire plot isn't a red herring and they solve the mystery via it irks me somewhat..!

[julietvalcouer]

I know, the Small Business Association pointed out the BSC as operating as a corporation without a license and providing non-background-checked child care.

[sgrfrostedflake]

Do they even have a McD's in the Brook? (I don't doubt you, I just don't remember them ever mentioning one.)