Today, in one of the lectures, our instructor, Dr. Bannikov, pointed to one of the students sitting in the middle row, and said:
“One.”
The student, like everyone else in the class, thought that he must have meant to give him a first warning because teachers don’t want someone causing nuisance in the class. However, after a second or two, Dr. Bannikov himself asked us:
“Do you know what ‘one’ is?”
“It’s the first warning…”
“It means that next time he will be asked to leave the class…”
These were some of the responses. However, Dr. Bannikov cleared things up with the following fable:
“O.K. Let me tell you the story. Once, this is almost 100 years back, when there used to be no cars, a newly-married couple were travelling in a carriage. During the journey, the horse slipped, on which the husband shouted ‘One’ to the horse, and lashed him. After some minutes, the horse slipped again, the husband said ‘Two’ to the horse, and lashed him yet again. Then, after a little time, the horse slipped once more, this time the husband…”
“.. said ‘Three’” We thought. But, it was something else.
“… took out a gun from his pocket and shot the horse dead.”
The class burst out in laughter, because they just did not expect this. And then the cute Russian accent of Dr. Bannikov also added to its flavour. Well, it is bad that you are laughing on someone's cruel act, but it was really the "One" that was said to the student on which the class was amused. So, Dr. Bannikov continued:
“But, the story does not end here. After a short while, the wife said to the husband:
‘Sweetheart, can we take our mother from the way and drop her to the next street.’
‘One’ said the husband to his wife…”
It ends here, and was a healthy ingredient to enliven the class.
“I will not kill you people, but…
‘One’” Dr. Bannikov pointed towards the same student. And finally we came back to where we were; variation of pressure in a fluid inside a rotating cylinder.
“One.”
The student, like everyone else in the class, thought that he must have meant to give him a first warning because teachers don’t want someone causing nuisance in the class. However, after a second or two, Dr. Bannikov himself asked us:
“Do you know what ‘one’ is?”
“It’s the first warning…”
“It means that next time he will be asked to leave the class…”
These were some of the responses. However, Dr. Bannikov cleared things up with the following fable:
“O.K. Let me tell you the story. Once, this is almost 100 years back, when there used to be no cars, a newly-married couple were travelling in a carriage. During the journey, the horse slipped, on which the husband shouted ‘One’ to the horse, and lashed him. After some minutes, the horse slipped again, the husband said ‘Two’ to the horse, and lashed him yet again. Then, after a little time, the horse slipped once more, this time the husband…”
“.. said ‘Three’” We thought. But, it was something else.
“… took out a gun from his pocket and shot the horse dead.”
The class burst out in laughter, because they just did not expect this. And then the cute Russian accent of Dr. Bannikov also added to its flavour. Well, it is bad that you are laughing on someone's cruel act, but it was really the "One" that was said to the student on which the class was amused. So, Dr. Bannikov continued:
“But, the story does not end here. After a short while, the wife said to the husband:
‘Sweetheart, can we take our mother from the way and drop her to the next street.’
‘One’ said the husband to his wife…”
It ends here, and was a healthy ingredient to enliven the class.
“I will not kill you people, but…
‘One’” Dr. Bannikov pointed towards the same student. And finally we came back to where we were; variation of pressure in a fluid inside a rotating cylinder.
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