Picking Nits
Investigator expenses; solo child travel; Walter’s allergies; sandwiches; empty Baltimore; tiramisu ignorance
In the discussion (7)
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- A nitpick asks how a Baltimore Sun reporter could charge a private investigator without approval, despite having Becky as boss and Walter as associate-publisher fiancé.
- Jonah waiting alone on the Empire State Building for hours seems implausible because an eight-year-old would panic and adults would intervene.
- Walter's allergies do not add up: white bread also contains wheat, salmon should not remain an unknown risk, and his full Christmas plate conflicts with extreme sensitivities; the humidifier raises further questions.
- The unadorned lettuce-and-tomato sandwich is again rejected as an appalling food order.
- Annie's New Year's party seems populated only by older people, while Baltimore is implausibly empty and safe, including late-night waterfront walks.
- Sam not knowing tiramisu is challenged as excessive isolation, while lack of internet and time away from dining partly defend it.
- A present-day Jonah is jokingly imagined absorbed in an iPad rather than spending time with his father; driving children is praised as a chance to talk, and empty Baltimore remains a major nitpick.