Saricks, Brendan J.

Perfume

The toilet seat was down…

There should be no reason for the toilet seat to be down; he certainly hadn’t put it down. He lived alone and, when you live alone you can leave the toilet seat in whatever position you see fit. There was a time when the seat was always down (unless he forgot - an act the invited extreme overreaction,) but those days had long since passed.

But the toilet seat was still down…

It must have fallen down. These things were subject to gravity just like anything else. It must have fallen down. There was no other potential explanation for it, nothing rational anyway. Gravity exerted its dominance over matter and slammed the toilet seat down. Elementary my dear Watson.

However, there is the question of the perfume… 

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