Detective Case 1: Urine in the lift?

I’ve often caught myself in a state where I see something strange or ordinary and will proceed to think of a logical backstory, or where I think of certain consequences of my actions and how I could substantiate them to clear my case.

Example 1:

I was walking into the lift when I realised that there’s droplets of liquid (constant, not getting heavier) leading into the lift where there was a tiny pool of liquid formed. I was worried that it might be some (idiotic) person who urinated in there (although I never had such an encounter) so I stood aside. And my brain automatically asked,”But is it urine? Or something else?” And because I couldn’t bring myself taste or smell it (there wasn’t any obvious odour), I presented to myself some logical deductions to prove that it was not.

1. Behavioural evidence: Urinating in the lift is often a prank. The only other possibility is a case of bladder incontinence. For the former, you would usually urinate in the lift not on the outside as well. Walking and urinating for the sake of playing a prank is highly inconvenient. You would get your pants wet and that’s not the consequence you would want to bear for committing a prank. And provided how the urine wouldn’t last that long and your prank would not achieve its best effect. And there’s also a CCTV just outside the lift on the ground floor so its significantly more logical for you to urinate inside if you’re playing a prank.

As for a case of bladder incontinence, you wouldn’t be thinking that you can hold your bladder till you go home if you’d started urinating before you even got into the lift. You would have went to the grass instead. Also, if you’re a considerate resident, you would feel obliged to clean it up after that. UNLESS you’ve suddenly decided to play a prank while discovering that you have an urgent need for the toilet. Very inconceivable and I doubt anyone’s brain can function this way. Unless you’ve been thinking of the prank for sometime now and this day you happened to need the toilet urgently. Highly unlikely.

2. Material evidence: The drops were constant and they were not a stream of liquid getting heavier. Unless the person decided to let out a few drops of urine outside the lift and let go inside. But inside the lift was a uniform pool of liquid at the corner of the lift, indicating a considerate person, with no sign of liquid splashing upwards. That’s not how our urethra behaves. And the person’s bladder must have been pretty awesome to hold such an amount of liquid.

3. Alternative suggestion: The evidences and deductions suggested that the source is constant and the person responsible for it was considerate and not deliberate although the person thought it alright for the liquid to be in the lift so it must be pretty orthodox and harmless. The source at which the water came from could be from a leak in a plastic bag from which the person bought earlier. possibly fish, from the market place which is nearby. It couldn’t be a leak from a water bottle because if it was, the person would have logically emptied it onto the grass nearby. In the suggested case, the person couldn’t have done anything much. But one question still leaves us: Why did it only start leaking 5 metres away from the lift? Or perhaps my observation didn’t extend to the route from which its started leaking from.

Conclusion: But one thing we can confirm is that it isn’t urine.

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That’s what I told my dad when we went into the same lift in the evening and he said I should go and be a detective and leave him alone. But he was convinced for sure. Sheesh.

Ugh, there are a lot more examples but I think you guys would kill me for the length >_> I’ll talk about those later if I feel like it