Poor Danny, you're not really equipped for this game.
Pro-tip: Don't ask questions you don't know the answer to.
Of course I knew all along the best you had was the housekeeper, preoccupied with her TV, blind in one eye, and nobody to cooperate her.
You are funny Otto.
So, you've set a trap in which there is only one option to choose from. Brilliant game, really well thought through.
Are you sure you didn't make some kind of mistake
Pro-tip: Don't ask questions you don't know the answer to.
How can you learn anything that way?
Your "pro-tip" says a lot about you.
Here's a pro-tip for you - acknowledge your mistakes.
Um, I'm still here and you already picked Gladys so no worries!
So what's the very best Mrs. Johnson has to offer?
Here we have Otto's fantasy that Oswald never lived at 1026 North Beckley and that the Johnsons and Earlene Roberts fabricated his existence at the house. These are the first three conspirators in this bizarre fairytale.
Who trained and instructed these people? I'm sure we will never know.
Whoever it was made the monumental blunder of setting this up at a rooming house where
eleven other tenants were staying at the time. Unless, of course, these eleven men were all involved, so now we have fourteen conspirators in this sad tale.
This is the first fail.
Surely the trick in a situation like the one Otto is proposing is to keep it simple. That is the last thing Mrs Johnson does.
She starts off with the detail that Oswald had been around three weeks previously but there were no vacancies, so she told him to try again some time, which he did. Why introduce this unnecessary detail?
She talks about his duffel bag, what he kept in the fridge, what he ate, when he ate, that he kept his room spotless, that he didn't smoke or drink and on and on and on...
It is clear to any rationally minded person that she is describing someone who actually lived at the house.
But "the very best that Mrs Johnson has to offer" is when she says the following:
Mr. Ball: He would watch television sometimes?
Mrs. Johnson: Yes,. sir watch television, with the other men renters...
As soon as she says this she has introduced the eleven other occupants into the fantasy. Why would she introduce such an easily checkable detail? Why would she drag eleven other men into the conspiracy?
There is a massive amount of detail about Oswald and his habits in Johnson's testimony. A clear indication she was talking about someone who really lived there and not some fantasy tenant.
Over to you.
