A Comedy of Errors
Since the death of her beloved pet, our sweet kid has been subjected to a series of embarrassing, and highly worrying (for me) temptations. It seems the poor sap working her case from the other side is hell-bent (literally) on bringing her down. Whether this is due to their love of a challenge, or some hideous reward scheme for bringing in especially challenging cases, I don’t know. It’s still a cause of some awful worry for me however.
I’ll talk about one incident here. I chose this one because it was so elaborate, and so likely to fail that it smacks of quite incredible desperation. It relied on so many unlikely things, and must have involved pulling so many strings that I’m amazed anyone bothered. It took place during a dinner party at her father’s boss’s house.
The plumbing had been arranged to fail, so that the usual rooms couldn’t be used as a cloakroom – and the room holding the pool table had to be used. Obviously, they were relying on the party not simply being cancelled because the house was covered in water, but that part went through alright. Next it had been arranged that the boss’s wife and daughter had to rush off for a minor family emergency. Meaning our sweet kid had to step in to ferry coats back and forward to the cloakroom. There are three routes to do this and the most difficult goes over a bridge crossing the carp pond. It had been arranged that the other two routes had been covered in an oily slimy moss, meaning our sweet kid had to go back and forth over the bridge carrying coats all evening.
Now simply tempting a child into dropping a coat or two wouldn’t have been enough, they had to push it a bit further. One of the guests has brought a sample of rat poison, they’d been working late and hadn’t dropped it off. They’d even mentioned this in front of everyone.
Our poor demons had hoped against hope that the poison would prove too much temptation. Especially when they arranged for all the guests to be distracted by one of the drunken women present.
It was a masterful performance in death-defying morality, and it’s just one example of how she treads the line every single day.