Picking Nits
Surprise storm; crowding the bow at night; unhealed scab timeline; spared boat captain; flushed ring; route to the bus station; disguise and nursing-home search; husband's leave from work
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- Nobody on the boat knows a storm is coming although forecasts would have; the captain says he does not know where the weather is coming from and should have known hours earlier.
- They all huddle at the front of the boat, which even a non-boater knows not to do, and nobody should sail at 9 p.m.
- At dinner with the mullet hero she still has the scab from being hit, so the Massachusetts-to-Iowa bus trip, fixing the house and meeting him all fit into about two weeks; too much story. Called very fair points.
- The grudge-holding husband would surely go after the boat captain for not checking the weather.
- Why flush the ring instead of keeping it, throwing it in the ocean or pawning it in Cedar Falls, and why not check that it flushed? Maybe it was symbolic.
- How did she get from her house to the bus station? A cab would be traceable and walking might take an hour while they searched.
- Why dress as a man to visit her blind mother? So nobody would know it was her, though since the nursing home had moved he should not have found it; he did by offering people 10 grand. Doesn't add up.
- What leave of absence did the high-powered husband take from work, with accounts to handle and no cell phones?