Thursday, July 4, 2019

Toilet haven

The boy's toilet has became a place to get away from classes. The physics teacher felt that the boys requests for toilet breaks are periodic and precise than the emissions of radio waves by distant Pulsars. Maybe some day someone would publish a paper on this possibility. It could result in the most accurate measurement of time. Of course, the boys do not really use these breaks to eject liquid waste from their body. Instead, they spend it on taking the most circuitous route to and from the toilet and to chat with whoever is present in its environs. I think Nature magazine had published in 1992 the results of a study conducted by some prestigious university in the US. According to the study, if water leaves a human body every time the boys request for a toilet break, they would end up looking like a dried raisin within two days. 

The boy's toilet was conveniently located away from the classrooms and provided a safe haven for the children to sit and chat. They sat on the wall outside the toilet and chatted for a few minutes. They had poor impression about their teacher's ability to determine the passage of time. They usually spent more than double the time required to walk from the class to the toilet, process their output and walk back. On getting back their faces donned expression of utmost sincerity as they attempted to convince the teacher that the time they had taken was not a second more than the time required. The teachers usually did not bother to argue and prove that the fellows took more time they required. Calculating time taken for visit to a toilet was never a part of their life's ambitions and their energy to argue on such topics had trained within a year or two of teaching.

That day, the teacher found two ten year old children playing with mud around the toilet area. As he started talking to them a small twelve year old with a big mouth walked by. He threw a "What's up!" to the teacher who looked at him with amusement. He watched the teacher helping the two younger children in cleaning the entrance to the toilet and said with an evil glint in his eyes "I want to show something to you" He finished his job within the toilet, walked out and pointed at a mud ball pasted on the wall above the doorway and said "I don't know who did it!" The teacher looked at him suspiciously. The two young boys said in unison "we know who did it". "Who?" asked the teacher. "We will not say" responded the boys. "Come on!" said the teacher. One of boys decided to give a clue "its someone from class seven." The teacher looked at the older boy suspiciously while persisting with a "Who?" "He" said the two young boys pointing at the older boy who watched the teacher with an evil grin. The teacher "hmmmm"-ed and asked the three of them to get back to the class. 

The elder boy laughed and ran back into the toilet saying "Wait, wait! I have to use the toilet." The teacher felt perplexed and asked "but you just used the toilet". Pat came the reply "I have loose motion." The teacher said with annoyance "Your loose motion is the wrong direction". The boy agreed "Yes! I have loose motion in the front side". The teacher walked away shaking his head.

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