I would only knock your puzzles to the floor if you took too long to solve them. There is strategy and finesse to a puzzle, if you leave it too long it's nearly worse than not trying at all. [He doesn't put much thought into the response, and for that it's more chiding than it is terse, and in the ensuing quiet when he's through he seems to realize this and fluster, if only slightly.]

But if your puzzles remaining in tact is such a priority, you'd really best get on with it.