- Title
- The Neighbourhood Watch Minute-Taker
- Genre
- Mystery
- Premise
- A man joins Neighbourhood Watch to look useful and is made minute-taker because he brought a pen. His problem is that he records the meetings too accurately.
- Specific job/task
- He must write up the minutes from a meeting about suspicious containers, garden noises and a parked van nobody can prove belongs to anyone.
- Precise setting detail
- The group meets around a folding table in the back room of a social club, under a framed darts-league certificate from 1998.
- Mundane system complication
- Several members want their comments removed after seeing how petty they look in writing.
- Decision that turns the story
- He decides to submit the minutes unchanged, turning a dull meeting record into evidence that the Watch may be the strangest thing on the street.