Local law enforcement just came knockin’. Someone you know was murdered, and they were universally disliked, so they’re interviewing almost everyone the victim knew. You need an alibi for 7:30-9:30 PM on Monday, January 24th.
Do you have one? Can anyone verify it? How long will it take you to come up with the answer and/or proof?
You don’t have to talk to the officer, you can call your lawyer and tell them. But you do need an alibi.
Me, I might be screwed…I live alone and am isolating. Best I could do is check my text logs and see if I was texting anyone at the time.
I was sitting next to my wife on the couch during that time period, except for when I might have gotten up to go to the bathroom.
I was also playing an MMORPG on my computer, and interacting with a few friends in the game. In a pinch, the company that operates that game could likely provide my game logs for Monday night.
Jeopardy came on at 7:30. Then spousal unit clicked around on the TV and I played some games on the tablet. Unfortunately, I can’t find any posts on the Dope during that period, nor did I text with anyone, so my husband is my alibi.
Hmmm. A reason to not have all the extra privacy protocols on my Alexa(s) enabled. Naawww, I’ll just join those who only have cellphone and online game logs + spouse to verify my presence. I can’t trust the cats to vouch for me, they’d sell me out in a hot minute for anyone who’d feed (Chungus cat) or brush (Spaz cat) them.
I live alone. I play in a community music group that ordinarily rehearses on Monday nights, but that’s on hold due to the pandemic. Looks like I’m screwed.
Yeah I have one. But that’s only bc I was at work. Any other time I would have been screwed.
I remember one night a cop came banging on my door. I was home alone. The cop asked me if anyone else was in my house. I told her ‘no’ but she wanted to come inside and check anyway bc there were reports of a woman screaming coming from my house. I knew I had every right to tell the cop to go pound sand but I let her in anyway mostly bc of the stigma that goes with being a middle aged guy living alone. (Also, I knew who they were looking for. It was the couple that lives in the house behind me. They’re always screaming at each other)
No sir, no alibi, no nobody else, no didn’t watch TV, don’t have a dog, didn’t feed the cat, no really can’t say, don’t think anybody saw me, nothing else I can tell you, any time officer, glad to be of assistance.
Watching TV by myself… but what if I could rattle off the plotlines of all the TV shows I watched?
Well, Officer Bougoisie is that Boo-zhwa-ZEE’ with the French pronunciation, or I bet your great-great-grandfather had it bastardized to BUG’-oyze when he immigrated anyhow it’s a lovely name either way so last Monday? Ohhhh, that was a big night, first Rob Lowe was stuck in an ice storm yeah I know, three episodes in a row they’re doing ‘stuck in the ice’ plots… in Texas! I mean it’s called 9-1-1 Lone Star right? I usually turn it on to see some warm scenery; helps with the winters, that and Magnum PI and Hawaii 5-0. So back to Rob Lowe, turns out the undocumented families he discovered in a barn in the ice storm are being hunted by the Sheriff or a deputy maybe who turns out SPOIIILER! sorry to shout, habit, but the old guy is working for a drug cartel and shipping the dirt-poor-but-still-photogenic ‘illegals’ to Mexico. So all of a sudden Rob Lowe has this huge gun trained on him and he looks well, sort of scared. I don’t know about you but he just looks a little too pretty for my tastes, I remember back in the Brat Pack days, he was in a movie, some rom-com, and his buddy… Jim Belushi could that be right?.. says 'Your problem is you’re too good-looking for most women. Your best hope would be an industrial accident." So that’s what I was thinking about when suddenly the sheriff’s car blows up! Well, it turns out wait, where are you going, Officer Boojee? I’m only up to about 7:50 we haven’t gotten to the dénouement damn, I love that word, day-NUU-mahn’…
That’s about what it is for me, too. I probably also teamed up with some other players during that time span, but I surely don’t remember any specifics five days later, and probably neither would they.