Whodunit?

Date: 2005.05.06 | Category: Daily Life, Mystery, family | Tags:

Everyone enjoys a good mystery, right? My mystery started on Monday morning when I arrived at my office to discover that a new fish was in the fish tank. That was odd. It was one of those fancy goldfish — a Chocolate Oranda. If you don’t know what that looks like, imagine a cross between a black goldfish and Warf from Star Trek.

Warf seemed friendly enough, and Dorothy, my plain jane goldfish, looked like she enjoyed the company, but where did he come from? Of course, a full investigation was in order.

I interviewed everyone in the building, and they all denied bringing the fish. I even tried to trick a few into a full confession, and instead of questioning them, I simply thanked them for the fish. That didn’t work. No one would fess up. My most likely suspect, was actually offended that I thought it was her. Jeez Louise! It’s a fish for cryin’ out loud, I’m not accusing you of murder … yet.

I had to accept the fact that Warf got into the tank in the only way possible. Clearly there was a wormhole. I dropped my investigation. I mean, I didn’t want to seem weird by obsessing over a mystery fish, even though it was in the corner of my mind constantly. I kept asking myself this question: who secretly puts a fish into someone else’s tank?

Wednesday came and Dorothy wasn’t looking so good. The next day she bit the dust. I had no choice now but to pull out all the stops and figure out whodunit. I picked up the phone and dialed the security company. My suspect had entered the building at 7:39 pm, and exited at 7:51 pm., and because he had punched in his security code to turn the alarm on and off, I knew who he was.

I was about to bring him in for the second round of questioning, but then my case took a turn I didn’t expect when Warf went belly up. This is too much! Perhaps I’ll leave the mystery solving to Trixie Belden.

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