He felt slightly guilty, but he was relieved when Melissa left the car. She'd been extra talkative and it'd been driving him crazy.

Now if only he could solve 37-down. See, with crossword puzzles there was usually just one or two words, that if you got them, would unlock the entire puzzle. He drove in to work still thinking about 37-down, and about how sometimes it's the same with life. You figure out one key thing and eventually it reveals everything else.

He smiled at the idea.  

Stanley Hudson, cracking the code of life one crossword puzzle at a time.