It has finally happened, it may have taken just over two years but the transition is now complete. I have become a Londoner.
6.30am I get up, I pack my suit, I don my reflectives, I power cycle to work, I shower in the gym, I put on my suit. 8.00am I sit in my open plan office and tell my colleagues how I am allowed to have canteen porridge for breakfast again because I cycled to work today. (They make me feel guilty about covering it in chocolate chips, but I ignore them) I spend all day floating from my desk to the tea point and back to my desk again. 90% of my work involves typing. 4.30pm I cycle home. 7.00pm I go to the pub and I talk to other Londoners about their cycle to work this morning, their day of exciting typing, and Boris Johnson. For all the in between bits… I play Sudoku.
I used to mentally mock the commuters I saw glued to their papers scribbling down meaningless numbers before they got to the office and spent all day typing meaningless numbers. But now I am one of the crowd. I like to think I am just a little bit better then most of them because I always play it on my DS but I have reached the stage where the last thing I do before I turn out the light at bedtime is play one more Sudoku. It has become my hot chocolate and I have become a cliche.
I need help. I am taking steps to beat the general Londoner way of life but I also need another game. Sudoku is just too London, I can’t be having it anymore! I need a game with no story, no interesting graphics and no catchy music. I must be able to pick it up, play it for 10 minutes and then put it away. In those ten minutes I want to feel engaged and satisfied, but afterwards I must feel no regret for turning it off. The hunt is on, I’m off to Oxford street to punish myself with big crowds and too much choice, and you… well your job it to help me with the power of game suggestion. Go.
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