Physics, you lied to me!
For the most part I believed in you. Yeah, sure I didn't understand you sometimes, but people much smarter than me told me you were infallible and I trusted them and I trusted you. I did hear rumours that you broke down when it came down to quantum physics and strings and witch-craft like that, but hey, what does a simple minded computer science guy like me know about stuff like that.
But yesterday, my belief in you came crashing down. The weather channels were incessantly droning on about how it was the coldest day of the year. -12C, they told me it was. So, with the enthusiasm of a five year old, I filled up a glass with water and ran out (in shorts and flip flops mind you, thus ensuring a complete loss of sensation in my toes) and placed it outside my apartment building hoping it would freeze instantly, with a clink hopefully that you often hear in Tom and Jerry cartoons. When that didn't happen, a tiny bulb went off in my head and I remembered the agonizing wait that I often endured in my childhood while I egged on the Rasna in the ice tray to freeze quickly and turn into delicious ice candy. So, it wasn't always instantaneous, this freezing thing. Fine, I decided to wait it out for an hour and finally, it was judgement time. I went back out again into the unholy tundra like coldness and there it was, the red plastic cup looking forlorn and still filled with something that looked suspiciously liquid aka not ice. What the hell was up with that? You lied to me physics and now I have to question everything that I've been told. Thanks.
But yesterday, my belief in you came crashing down. The weather channels were incessantly droning on about how it was the coldest day of the year. -12C, they told me it was. So, with the enthusiasm of a five year old, I filled up a glass with water and ran out (in shorts and flip flops mind you, thus ensuring a complete loss of sensation in my toes) and placed it outside my apartment building hoping it would freeze instantly, with a clink hopefully that you often hear in Tom and Jerry cartoons. When that didn't happen, a tiny bulb went off in my head and I remembered the agonizing wait that I often endured in my childhood while I egged on the Rasna in the ice tray to freeze quickly and turn into delicious ice candy. So, it wasn't always instantaneous, this freezing thing. Fine, I decided to wait it out for an hour and finally, it was judgement time. I went back out again into the unholy tundra like coldness and there it was, the red plastic cup looking forlorn and still filled with something that looked suspiciously liquid aka not ice. What the hell was up with that? You lied to me physics and now I have to question everything that I've been told. Thanks.