Another quote....

[kayre]

Tilly was playing solitaire but every time she found a king, she just put it back at the bottom of a pile.
"That's not what you do," I said. "It's cheating."
"There's only me playing."
"But they're the rules."
"They're not my rules, though," said Tilly. She hid another king as I was watching. "I think people should be allowed to have their own."
"That's the whole point of rules," I said. "They're there to make sure everyone does the same thing."
"That's a bit boring, though, isn't it?" she said.
Tilly was the kind of person who sent a Christmas card in July, because she thought you might like the picture on the front. Sometimes, you just had to make allowances for her.

(The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Joanna Cannon)

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[amaebi]

My former mother-in-law told a story about how she was playing solitaire when traveling by freighter to South America. A crewman came up and watched her method, then said, "You can't do it that way."

"Watch me!" she said.