Puzzling behavior

I've recently noticed the emergence of some behaviors in my humans that I had previously thought were restricted to the Christmas season (see my earlier post if you don't know about Christmas yet). One example is jigsaw puzzles. 

Both cats and humans find jigsaw puzzles fascinating. There are lots of little pieces, and they can be chewed, carried, knocked onto the floor, or used as a cat-sized hockey puck. Shockingly, your humans do not want you to do any of those things. 

No, your humans don't want your help with the puzzle.

Imagine that. There may be a thousand or more of those little pieces, and they won't want to share a single one of them with you. Instead, they will stare at the pieces for hours on end, only occasionally moving one of them from one area of the table to another. In the end, though, they will manage to get all the pieces to connect. 

If there are any pieces missing at that point, you can be sure they will blame you. 

I'm afraid we'll just have to bear this selfish behavior in the name of being supportive during the pandemic.

These are the times that try cats' souls.