My dad’s infamous words on every road trip (and there were a lot in my life) were always, “Learn to be bored!” My brother and I always felt that this was a poor suggestion seeing as how terrible boredom really was.

I never truly understood my dad’s suggestion until I embarked upon my flight attendant career. ON MY GOSH, was he right?! Between hot reserve duty, being fresh out of flight attendant school, and six hour lay-overs, boredom is inevitable. You have to learn to love to read, become very well aquatinted with the internet (if you have a laptop), watch the same movie in the crew room time after time for all eternity (if you’re blessed enough to have a TV and VCR/DVD player, and both working at the same time), or, do what I did – become addicted.

My addiction was not one of cigarettes, drugs, coffee, donuts, peanuts, or anything of that nature. My addiction was in the form of those Penny Press books… logic problems, brain teasers, crosswords and my all time favorite puzzle to hunt and play? Number boxes!!!

Oh number boxes, how I love thee? What are number boxes? Now, it is very popularly known as Sudoku! Praise Sudoku!! My savior from boredom. I do have to warn you of one thing however – people will commonly mistake the look of intense concentration as boredom. So, don’t be offended if no one realizes you are truly evading your torturer.

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