Commuter Dilemma
OK, so you know I like my Sudokus right?
And you know that I'm pretty damn good (though I say so myself), right?
So, if I'm sat next to a novice on the train, and they've managed to enter barely a few numbers, AND they've been sat for a good twenty minutes, scanning along the rows and columns with their pencil, with a pained expression on their face, and entering no new numbers...
Is it ok for me to suggest the next few numbers?
Of course, the answer is "NO!" It would be rude beyond compare. However, I had done the next 8 or 9 moves in my head and was starting to lose my place in the puzzle because I couldn't keep in my head the picture of it as I was completing it, so I got stuck.
Which irritated me beyond belief. Whaddya reckon?
And you know that I'm pretty damn good (though I say so myself), right?
So, if I'm sat next to a novice on the train, and they've managed to enter barely a few numbers, AND they've been sat for a good twenty minutes, scanning along the rows and columns with their pencil, with a pained expression on their face, and entering no new numbers...
Is it ok for me to suggest the next few numbers?
Of course, the answer is "NO!" It would be rude beyond compare. However, I had done the next 8 or 9 moves in my head and was starting to lose my place in the puzzle because I couldn't keep in my head the picture of it as I was completing it, so I got stuck.
Which irritated me beyond belief. Whaddya reckon?
posted by Paul at
12:50 PM
7 Comments:
Well, it would be a good way to start up a conversation if the guy was cute (of course presuming a) male and b) cute). I sat on a plane with a sudoku that I couldn't for the life of me figure out. Only when I put the bloody thing away and came back to it a day later was I able to see the next move. I probably would've been a combination of grateful and annoyed had someone offered me the next move. Unless they were, well cute.
By
Mike, at Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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Paul, at Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Maybe it's how you tell them?
Gently coaching and offering help, as if they were an old lady waiting to cross the road, as opposed to;
"Oi, Dumbass! It's a 4 in there, then that gives you the 3 there! Jeez! And then..."
By
Paul, at Wednesday, November 08, 2006
I appear to be stumped, may I offer some suggestions. But only if, like Mike says, they're male & cute!
By
rodger, at Thursday, November 09, 2006
Subject of annoyance was male, but so not cute!
By
Paul, at Thursday, November 09, 2006
nerfectly pormal i reckon!
By
AngelConradie, at Monday, November 20, 2006
"nerfectly pormal"??
By
Paul, at Friday, November 24, 2006
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