re: Maybe I misunderstood
The actual quote was:
Just like you always look to the fine points but ignore the whole bull in the china shop.
("But the shop was closed for the holidays".)
The point here being that in her chosen example the shop not even being open is not a sufficient counterargument for her when she declares there was a bull in it that day. I suspect her response would have been identical if the counterargument had been "But there isn't even a china shop in that town."
Wherever Sherlock Holmes is on the curve of deduction and reasoning, Lindy is on the other end of it.
That so few people seem to get this is sort of instructive in itself.