Mystery #10: Stacey and the Mystery Money

[3_foot_6]

Oh man, you guys. Before I read this book, I had only ever read the first four mysteries, but I’d been avoiding the rest because they seemed so campy. I plowed in with one that didn’t seem too hallucinogenic (you can’t tell me that something called “Stacey and the Fashion Victim” was written sober), but oh my god. Everything I thought it could be

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[design_star_21]

This was so completely awesome!

[ladynorbert]

Charlotte buys a troll doll and then begs to ride the escalator. Stacey says that after New York, escalators are no big to her, but “kids in Stoneybrook think it’s the coolest thing they ever saw, as if it were a ride in an amusement park. That’s how excited they get about it.” You guys, it’s official. Stoneybrook SUCKS. “Mom, can we go to Bellair’s and ride the escalator oh PLEASE oh PLEASE?!” “Not until your homework’s finished, Jason!” Damn.

SERIOUSLY? I live in a town approximately the same size as Stoneybrook, and I don't know anyone over the age of six who was ever excited about escalators.

Great snark!

[ladynorbert]

That is bizarre. Escalators weren't a new thing in the 80s were they? Mind you I do get quite excited about the horizontal escalator at Gatwick Airport, and I'm 25 ...

[kerssido]

We should tell the police. But we’re not going to. I want to solve this case myself

She just said that to an eight-year-old? Okay, I don't care if I have to drag my kids along with me to mail a letter, I am not calling the BSC. EVER.

[jessicarae729]

I don't even know where to start in describing the amazingness that is this snark. If I started copying and pasting my favorite parts, I would end up copying and pasting the entire thing.

I must say, that whole bit about Stacey not going to the police - she obviously missed the memo that anyone who doesn't mind committing the federal offense of counterfeiting probably also doesn't mind committing the federal offense of first degree murder.

Wouldn’t it suck if you were in the counterfeiting business, only it took all your fake money just to buy supplies to keep it going? Sort of like how my sister works, but it takes basically her entire salary to pay for my nephew’s daycare, which he only needs because she works. It’s hard out there for working moms and federal criminals.And this cracks me up too. Every time I feel guilty about not working and staying at home with my baby, I remind myself that any job I could get would basically pay for daycare. Unless I lived in Stoneybrook, where I could hire a BSC member to sit for pennies a

[lilith_sternin]

Re: Photocopying dollar bills - it is illegal to make a copy of a bill that is the exact same size. You can shrink it or enlarge it, though.

Also, apparently some vending machines will take photocopies of dollar bills. I Googled, and will now go to jail if my computer files are ever searched. ;)

[bellecour]

Is it wrong that I really want to try this now? Does two wrongs make a right if I give my stolen vending machine snack to the homeless?

[tonights]

I had that same thought.