Silly Grandparents (Part I)
(Inspired by a conversation I had with Chris M. in the halls during fifth period.)
You remember when your grandparents used to tell you wild stories about their times as a child? At one point they would always tell you *Start stereotyping* that they somehow managed to walk to school and back everyday, uphill, for 15 miles. *End stereotyping* Mind you, they also told you that they walked uphill both ways. I’m not sure about you, but I believe this is physically impossible. Although, in highly uncommon scenario’s, it may be possible. Let’s examine some possible situation’s in which the average student back in the 40’s would have to walk to school. Please bear in mind that I was unable to create many scenes:
As you can tell, the house (blue) is on the top of a hill, the road leads down to the school (red). The only possible way to go uphill would be to walk home, which would result in you going up the road, obviously, uphill. This must not of been how they got around, apparently. Although it would be a good thing for people who don’t like to walk more than, say, one inch. I hate scaled models.
Next is this model:
This model does actually provide a plausible solution; both ways are uphill. Think about it. Either path you take can be uphill. They are both different ways to the home. Thus, the only logical conclusion is that every single grandparent lived on top of a hill. I must say that this, while certainly unlikely, must be true. C’mon, would your grandparnts ever lie to you?
Further explaination of Model 2:
Lets say you’re at school. There are two parallel paths (as shown on the diagram) that take you back home. For the sake of commonality, lets refers to these as ways (people do call them ways - example: Which “way” do you want to go? Lets go that “way”!) Both “ways” are uphill. It’s now just a matter of choice walking back home…it’s not a literal (I walked uphill both to and fro school) meaning.
Adios!
-jools
