The real trick is explaining what the quarter slot is.

I often feel like a child playing with a large wooden toy.

It's flat and wooden box, tilting back at a 60° angle. At the top you place in a marble and drop it. There are a series of pegs and levers, and paddles you use to navigate the marble wherever you desire. Along the way are loops and buzzers and flashing lights that get activated, like a pinball machine, whenever the marble interacts with them. When it gets to the bottom, it drops out, and I take it in my hand again.

Off to the right side is a tunnel that leads into a pipe that is mounted into the wall. I have no idea where it goes, or what happens if I even get it in there. There is an instruction booklet hanging from the pipe with hundreds of thousands of detailed instructions written by several hundred people explaining what they know will happen if I get it into the tunnel. But none of them really agree.

Determined to write my own instructions in the back, I put the marble in the top to begin again. It isn't until the marble drops into the cup at the bottom that I realize that I wasted a go. I was supposed to be putting the marble in the mysterious tunnel to the right. I don't get upset, I just shrug my shoulders, put the marble back in, and there, before you know it, the lights stop flickering, the music stops, and the marble is in the bottom cup.

I can't focus my efforts better until I convince myself that at least one of the instructions is correct, and well worth all the trouble. I also need to better enjoy the flashing lights.