Yes 88keys, it totally makes sense. But, what I'm having a hard time with is reconciling that these "normal" things happened all on the night that she disappeared. Kristy gets into a "dispute", leaves her phone behind in the bathroom, and then doesn't say goodbye to the bartender. I can't help but feel that at least one of these things has something to do with it. I'm always up for being wrong, and I am often, but these things just seem like too much of a coincidence to me. Those "normal things" just strike me as odd considering they happened right before she disappeared. I just don't think we can look at anything as a "normal" occurrence. We have to look at everything that happened that night BEFORE she went missing. KWIM?
In any case, I would hope that if someone was going to disappear...it wouldn't be one of those times (that we all have) when they misplaced their phone. Unless Kristy didn't want anyone to find her. And in that case, it all seems to make sense to me. For the record, I don't think that's the case. But again, I've been wrong too many times to count.
I totally get where you are coming from, Texasgirl. The dispute...her leaving the cellphone (and I had to laugh that everything you said about the cellphone is pretty much exactly what I've been thinking -- and your cellphone behaviors are much like mine)...her not telling her VFW friend she was heading out...those elements all gnaw at me as well.
Do any of those elements specifically point to what happened? No, not necessarily. Do they, like someone else mentioned, just contribute to her later actions (like indirect causal effect)? Yes, that could very well be. Or are they all (or some of them) unrelated facts that ultimately haven't got a darn thing to do with whatever has happened? I certainly don't know. We just don't have enough concrete info, IMHO.
In the JH case, it was those odd little elements -- a chain of them, like here -- that also bugged me (but, in that case, those elements could also be "explained away" with decent logic -- it just was not how I was thinking about/looking at the meaning of them)...and with the JH case, I felt that same unease with that (for me) string of elements that were troubling that I thought may tell the story...her buying the sleeping pills/the gas/cellphone shut off, etc. Sadly
. In that case, all those things argubly could have been "normal" or certainly adequately explained to draw different conclusions, but the elements didn't feel right to me, and my gut kept telling me why...as much as I kept trying to come up with other conclusions.
So coming off the JH case, I admittedly may be stuck-stuck-stuck on these elements bothering me in this particular case (maybe I am, again, thinking they tell a story when they simply do not)...people are so different and cases are unique. But still...
I completely relate to how you're feeling about these elements with Kristy -- how they gnaw at you.
I want more info, as I am sure we all do. Like that text message...and any fallout from that dispute...two things that may be key.
