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(A customer comes in, spends thirty minutes browsing games, then proceeds to talk to me for another forty-five minutes about whatever. I hint several times for him to leave the store.)
Customer: “Puzzle games are hard… I enjoy Halo way more. Why do you think people want to play puzzles, anyway? And what’s with the word, anyway? Z’s suck.”
Me: “Just a second.”
(I decide to try something desperate: I go to the computer on the counter and look up “puzzle” on Wikipedia.)
Me: “A puzzle is a problem or enigma that challenges ingenuity. In a basic puzzle, one is intended to piece together objects in a logical way in order to come up with the desired shape, picture, or solution. Puzzles are–”
Customer: “Okay, I get it.”
Me: “–often contrived as a form of entertainment, but they can also stem from serious mathematical or logistical problems–”
Customer: “Please stop.”
Me: “–in such cases, their successful resolution can be a significant contribution to mathematical resear–”
Customer: “Stop it, you a**. I get it.”
Me: “–ch. Solutions to puzzles may require recognizing patterns and creating a particular order. People with a high inductive reasoning aptitude may be better at solving these–”
Customer: “STOP IT, F***! WHY DON’T YOU F****** STOP? WHY?!”
Me: “–puzzles than others. Puzzles based on the process of inquiry and discovery to complete may be solved faster by those wi–”
Customer: “FINE, I’LL BUY THIS SONIC GAME! SHUT THE F*** UP, JESUS CHRIST!”
(I scan the game, take his money, and wave him out.)
Me: “Thank you. Have a nice day.”
Customer: “F*** YOU!”
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