Today a guy sitting next to me was reading my crossword over my shoulder. I folded my paper over and shot him a death glare. He kind of jumped and pretended to be looking at something else, then decided it would be better to pretend to be asleep. Dude...

Anyway, I finished my puzzle in peace while he fake slept.

there were these stuffed animal dogs that kind of looked like pound puppies but weren't. they looked relatively nice but you could flip up their gums and they bared their teeth and looked much more aggressive.

WHAT WERE THESE CALLED?

i feel so old

edit: someone nice helped me find it - they're called pooch patrol! lookit

There is a free newspaper available every morning for New Yorkers called AM New York. This paper is good if it's raining (free umbrella), for its lolzy letters to the editor and for its Kenken and crossword puzzles. My train ride from Hoboken to the Xangaish part of NYC is about 15 minutes, which is enough time to finish the puzzle page.

This woman gets on the train this morning and sits next to me. She watches me do Kenken and I'm, like, whatever because nobody really does it or knows what it is so I don't care. I start the crossword and she is reading over my shoulder the entire time. I'm left handed, so my wrist ends up covering most of the clues naturally when I'm writing, and she was craning her neck to read said clues around my arm. HELLO?!

What is the best way to deal with this? I guess my options are...

-be the bigger person, chill out and ignore it
-waste a perfectly good puzzle by writing STOP BEING NOSY across the middle
-write a text to a friend that says "this really annoying woman is reading over my shoulder, help!"
-stand up and continue the puzzle
-ask her if she needs something

What would you do? I realize this is completely petty, but I get so annoyed by the human race sometimes...

edit: okay, look at what happened to my BF this morning. from his email to me:

I got on the B train and some guy and girl sitting next to me was watching me do the crossword, and when I finished, he tapped me on the shoulder and was like, "That's really impressive. I've never seen anyone finish one of those." I was like, ummmm...ARG