It’s a bit of a curiosity that’s sprung up, but has probably been coming on for a while. It all started with a simple observation:
“Have you been moving the coasters on the side table around?” I asked my roommate a couple weeks after we moved in.
“Huh? No, I haven’t.” Oddly enough, she later discovered her boyfriend at the time had been doing the job absentmindedly.
A few weeks later, I asked if she’d been using my shampoo. Her boyfriend was apparently taking advantage of my “unobservance”. To say that stopped rather quickly. I wasn’t as unobservant as he liked to believe
A few other instances cropped up, instances in which I managed to figure out a few things that were going on around me simply due to the fact that small details were off how the should have been. Couple that with my passion for forensics, and you could call me a regular Sherlock Holmes. The difference simply lies in the fact that I refuse to touch drugs of any kind, including caffeine. (I do make exception to the caffeine rule if I have a migraine of any kind, however.)
Then, all of a sudden, my roommate began to pick up on the observations. I figured she’s picked up on the habit. In any case, she decided that she must be Dr. Watson. And since Sherlock Homes and John Watson were roommate to begin with, that seems quite all right.
It’s gotten me to thinking, perhaps I should write reviews of forensic techniques and things on here. The largest flaw in the system is the fact that so much of the inaccuracies are published as fact. Probably not because someone means to publish them as fact, just simply because people look at old case studies and read them as what “worked” in the past. We’ve long known that photo superposition doesn’t work, but it still ends up in the public case studies books.
In the meantime though, I think I’ll stick to watching Sherlock and Inspector Lewis.
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