The Squire and I both enjoy puzzles – both jigsaw and crossword puzzles. Every morning, we print off the daily crossword puzzles and the Word Search from the Baltimore Sun (which has been made infinitely more difficult by their improved site) and work them together.
Several times a week we open a new jigsaw puzzle, sort out the pieces, and put it together. The problem is that we have different approaches to the sorting process. I sort the pieces by shape – all of what I call standard pieces – together, all of the “little men “, and so forth and then arrange them by color. The Squire pulls out everything of a certain color and then arranges them in some order known only to himself. The pieces that are the same shape are not together, some are upside down, others are sideways. It drives me NUTS!
Today we are working a Star Wars puzzle. He has three bowls on various colors and mixed shapes. I can’t even begin to help him because all of those bowls are still unsorted – even by his standards. I did sort out what he had left behind, but I have no idea where to start to put them into the frame.
I finally came into the den to write this because we are about to come to words.
Yes, folks, it is that bad.
Tags: frustration, jigsaw puzzles, The Squire
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