I cannot tell when exactly this incident took place but it happened for sure. It was when we were being introduced to Distance, Displacement, Velocity, and all those related topics in Physics...
I had no problem with them. In fact, I was clear with all the equations and concepts for once. The problem was my friend.
Anumitha came up to me one free period, her Physics book dangling from her arms carelessly. "Dude, clear this please. I couldn't differentiate between Distance and Displacement."
I took the book from her and started my explanation. I taught her the formulae, the difference and even the equations but at the end of the hour, Anumitha just had one thing to say, "I'm still confused."
I felt like hitting her, frustration building in me. I was really into my latest edition of 'Young World', before she interrupted me and even though I spent my precious free time on her, this girl had the nerves to tell me that she didn't understand. I explained things so smoothly and how she managed to tune me out left me completely baffled.
Rhupini, my classmate who seemed to have been hearing our exchange for the past few minutes called Anumitha. She drew two squares on a blank paper, each on the extreme ends and a pictorial representation of a man in between.
She then addressed Anumitha.
"Imagine Anu that one box is your house and the other is a liquor shop. You leave your home fresh and steady reaching the liquor shop in a steady manner, this is called displacement because it takes or covers the shortest route to your destination.
On the other hand, when you go back home from the liquor shop, you are drunk so bad that you work in a zig-zag, unsteady drunkard fashion covering extra distance to reach home than you did when you left for the shop. This is called distance."
I do not know whether it could be called a mind blowing explanation but it was a perfect drunkard explanation for sure! We burst out laughing.
Anu is pursuing her engineering now and if betting wasn't haraam, I would totally bet on my brand new Eid dress that hasn't even been used that the episode threw her doubts regarding 'distance and displacement' into the drain. She will remember it life long!
What a drunken method of explanation!
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