The Mystery of the Mystery...

You are walking down the street in New York city, going to get yourself some good old fashioned soup from your favorite restaurant, you tell yourself your going to get the Chicken noodle soup, over and over. You even distinctly remember saying to the waitress last week "I am definitely getting the chicken noodle soup again!" And so it was. You enter the restaurant and sit down, the waitress comes up to you. "The Chicken noodle soup?" she asks
You nod slowly, wondering how she could have guessed so easily....and so the Mystery was started....

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As you watch the waitress walk away you notice her phone starts to ring, and she answers it....then goes to the only corner with no one around, where no one can hear.
Your positive she is Guilty, of what however....You know not.
she hangs up and tells the Chef to start up the grill, you think to yourself "Thats interesting.....I ordered chicken noodle soup......"
then she says to the Chef "Also, start some Chicken Noodle soup."
You think again, silently "How weird, someone ordered Chicken Noodle soup...just as me....Conspiracy?..Maybe.." Someone walked by and sneezed, you say "Bless You." Then it clicks in your mind, the sneeze was a distraction so they could put something in your soup......of this you are sure.

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The waitress is carrying the soup your way, you try to smile and act as if nothing is wrong as she sets the soup down at your table and asks "What would you like to drink?" You figured it out, the sneeze was a distraction to distract you from the real distraction, of which you didnt see....they want to poison your drink!
You say "Lemonade please." trying to stay polite, as not to cue them of your investigation. As the waitress walks away you thoroughly examine your soup but find nothing awry with it. You pick up your spoon, It isn't right, someone gave you a spoon with the concave side reversed...you think "I have to get out of here."
The waitress comes back with a tall glass of Lemonade, she set it down and left without so much as a word. You look at the lemonade...its pink..... not traditional for the average lemonade drinker, Poisoned with pink poison, far to weird, you decide to not drink it. You take out your wallet and pay, then get up and head for the door, as you open it you notice about 5 waiters and waitresses pile around a boy and start singing Happy Birthday, it is obviously his twelfth birthday, even though he looked only eleven....Then you figure it out, its all coming together! You know just what is going on...

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You run to your friends house, you know of all people he would understand.
You knock on his door and he answers and says " Hey, whats up?" and opens the door wider, signaling for you to walk inside. you do so and tell him "There is a conspiracy going on Frank!" his eyes turn bright as he stated " I have always suspected as much..."
You tell him everything going on in the restaurant, then finish with "It was his Twelfth birthday, what is 12 x 12?"
Frank thought for a bit and answered " 144." You ask " Whats the square root of 144?"
He looks both ways and say " uhh 12..."
You ask again " Whats 12 + 12?"
He says " 24, where is this going...?"
You say " half of 24 is 12,which minus 4 is 8...thats how many sides are on a stop-sign. i saw 3 of them on my way to the restaurant, 3 x 8 is 24..."
You saw that he understood you, but to prove such a conspiracy would be nigh impossible...

* * * *

You go to the restaurant again and you see the waitress digging through her purse, and you find your evidence. You confront the waitress, and say "We have caught you!"
She looks bewildered....its convincing, but if you were not as sharp as a tack you might not have noticed. she asked "What are you talking about" you gather your thoughts as a crowd draws near and explain everything, ending with "And that is exactly how i know you, of all people, are guilty!"
She looked at you and asked " Guilty of what?" You laugh and tell her" You are guilty of selling drugs to a chain-gang of monkeys that live off the coast of the Florida Keys!!" The crowd Gasps. She panics and says " You have no proof!"
Then you say "On the contrary, is this not your purse? i saw you digging through it today..."

She nodded

"Then why is there a list in your purse saying that you cannot forget to send the shipment of drugs to a chain-gang of monkey that live off the coast of the Florida keys!?"


She looked stumped, and then she admitted to it...
"Call the cops, get this drugs selling monkey friendly waitress off the streets."

And so it was, the Mystery of the Mystery was solved, the waitress arrested, and You a hero.

THE END

Thank you all for reading, RanDoMiZeR.