SUDOKU FOR AUTISM - Black & White

Hair of a woman
Tic tic bang bang
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We don’t know if an official complaint has been made, but the male staff
of a medium-sized company in town have targeted a female member and
have laid out various traps to catch her red handed at a task she has been
accused of doing. Want to know what the drama is all about? Since some
weeks now the male staff have been stumbling – well, not exactly – slipping,
shall we say, not that either, well they have been confronting slightly long
black hair either on the floor, their work stations, the meeting room and yes,
even in the pantry…and the yuck factor seems to have incensed the male
members, most of them sporting thinning and receding hairlines (one must
quickly add), who although accusing one lady of the hair fall, have not fully
been able to catch her in the act of shedding, so to speak. “It is just a matter
of time,” one of the main members of this ‘no hair shedding in office allowed’
group says. But, shouldn’t they be spending time and effort on their office
task than indulge in such non hair-raising issues, one would want to ask.
Smirk, smirk. “We are doing this event and we are going to bring this famous
star and another great celebrity…” we said. She went smirk, smirk again.
Must be a facial tic, we thought and dismissed it. Of course, not in the level of
Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro) in the 1990 movie, Awakenings, but people
can have tics and they need not be in the style portrayed by Oscar winning
actors, we told ourselves. So, let it be, we said. Let her smirk, smirk, tic tic.
But the more we spoke about the event, the more smirk smirk tic tic, she
went. Time went tick tock tick tock and she went smirk tic smirk tic toc and
suddenly we saw red. Hey lady, you gotta stop it, we growled. What, she
asked as she continued with her smirk smirking, tic ticking… Our fingers
twitched; our hands shook; our lips trembled and our tongues were
ready to lash vitriol. Our hands went violent again to the point we
thought we were going to go bang bang burst… Stop it, we rumbled
as we furiously cut air between two gnashing set of teeth. Stop it, we
told the other senior person with this lady and added that if she did not
stop her tic, we were going to toc, sorry storm out. The man quickly
cut in, telling the lady with the tic to stop smirking and behave herself
before their guests and apologised to us. We stood up to leave, but
then she immediately stopped her tic tic ticking (oh, we gotta tell Dr
Malcolm Sayer – aka Robin Williams – of Awakenings that we have a
medicine better than his L-Dopa drug, which might work for tics) and
we sat down again for the discussion.
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