Was that sarcasm? He was terrible at reading into things. Did she really want to know about credit card numbers? It didn't matter, because that had reminded him of the antique shop rumor and now she had to be informed.
“I don't have their credit card numbers specifically, but I do have possible credit card fraud. The antiques shop recently changed hands because the owner died and left it to his granddaughter Lucy. The POS systems are outdated and Lucy doesn't know what she's doing, so she hired Mark. Mark used to work at the bank, and there was an incident with check fraud and he was 'let go' under suspicious circumstances but no official charges. Diane, who lives above the antiques place, swears she overheard Mark and Lucy planning to steal credit card numbers. So, Domino, was it?”
He wrote her information down in a notebook, though she hadn't elaborated much. She was staying at the bed and breakfast and that meant he'd inadvertently called her a weirdo earlier. That was rude, and he really wanted to apologize, but it would only be awkward at this point.
“Where are you from originally? Why did you decide to vacation in Corwin? Have you seen anything interesting at the bed and breakfast? Anything... vandal-y?”
He just said 'vandal-y'. He really needed to stop. Maybe the consequences of deviation wouldn't be that bad. No, they would. He knew they would. He'd imagined such horrendously terrible outcomes and was so focused on unspeakable worst-case scenarios that he'd nearly scared himself to death several times.
Re: This is the Only Bar in Town
“I don't have their credit card numbers specifically, but I do have possible credit card fraud. The antiques shop recently changed hands because the owner died and left it to his granddaughter Lucy. The POS systems are outdated and Lucy doesn't know what she's doing, so she hired Mark. Mark used to work at the bank, and there was an incident with check fraud and he was 'let go' under suspicious circumstances but no official charges. Diane, who lives above the antiques place, swears she overheard Mark and Lucy planning to steal credit card numbers. So, Domino, was it?”
He wrote her information down in a notebook, though she hadn't elaborated much. She was staying at the bed and breakfast and that meant he'd inadvertently called her a weirdo earlier. That was rude, and he really wanted to apologize, but it would only be awkward at this point.
“Where are you from originally? Why did you decide to vacation in Corwin? Have you seen anything interesting at the bed and breakfast? Anything... vandal-y?”
He just said 'vandal-y'. He really needed to stop. Maybe the consequences of deviation wouldn't be that bad. No, they would. He knew they would. He'd imagined such horrendously terrible outcomes and was so focused on unspeakable worst-case scenarios that he'd nearly scared himself to death several times.