Weirdos

by Frank Roche on May 29, 2008

A guy plopped down next to me on the train home tonight when there were plenty of open seats still available. I took the social faux pas with the typical aplomb with which I handle things like this — I let out an audible sigh. It didn’t work.

It got worse. The reason the guy scootched in? He wanted to look at my answers to the NYT crossword puzzle. And I’m not talking about glancing at it, I’m talking about him gawking at it. Freaky. So I did the only thing I could do…I flipped the puzzle over, glowered at him, and looked at Twitter on my iPhone.

Then he started crinkling his papers. He had 10 puzzles or so. Finally, I got out my puzzle and finished it. ( I was tempted to fill in wrong answers and let him see them. Show him for trying to copy.) He got off at Wayne. I tsked as he walked away.

Tagged as: puzzles

{ 12 comments }

Lucy May 30, 2008 at 12:12 am: I like to leave half-finished sudokus with one or two purposely wrong numbers on the table in the Carolina Productions office because I know people will try to do them and get confused.
Lucy May 29, 2008 at 8:12 pm: I like to leave half-finished sudokus with one or two purposely wrong numbers on the table in the Carolina Productions office because I know people will try to do them and get confused.
Sarcasmom May 30, 2008 at 12:44 am: I love the NYT Sunday puzzle. It has to be done in pen.
Sarcasmom May 29, 2008 at 8:44 pm: I love the NYT Sunday puzzle. It has to be done in pen.
Frank May 30, 2008 at 2:06 am: Lucy, that’s perfect. I laughed when I read it. I had that same feeling…

Sarcasmom, I’m with you…I’m a pen guy. But I must say that I don’t like people I don’t know peering over my shoulder…creepy.
Frank May 29, 2008 at 10:06 pm: Lucy, that’s perfect. I laughed when I read it. I had that same feeling…

Sarcasmom, I’m with you…I’m a pen guy. But I must say that I don’t like people I don’t know peering over my shoulder…creepy.
Pinky Bear May 30, 2008 at 5:09 am: Too bad you didn’t have any garlic flavored gum or start blowing bad gas.
Pinky Bear May 30, 2008 at 1:09 am: Too bad you didn’t have any garlic flavored gum or start blowing bad gas.
rick May 30, 2008 at 1:15 pm: I think he was attracted by the new haircut. Expect more of this.
rick May 30, 2008 at 9:15 am: I think he was attracted by the new haircut. Expect more of this.
Frank May 30, 2008 at 1:37 pm: Rick, yes, I must look more approachable.

Pinky Bear…I was ready to go to DefCon 2 if he didn’t back off.
Frank May 30, 2008 at 9:37 am: Rick, yes, I must look more approachable.

Pinky Bear…I was ready to go to DefCon 2 if he didn’t back off.