We were on a train
journey and our co-passenger next berth was a super-cool uber-curious kid who
kept asking questions. Once he looked outside the window, felt the train
running, and asked, "how does the train move?" I thought to play
game; to give him a stupid but logical answer which he could understand... So I
said, "There are big elephants at the front of the train who are pulling
the train and running fast..." To my relief, the kid bought the answer. He
was satisfied and went to sleep.
He woke after an hour
or two. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw outside and realized that the
train was still. And he exclaimed, "The elephants have stopped!!!"
That was so cool - instead of saying "the train has stopped", he more
appropriately said, "the elephants have stopped!"... I felt guilty of
misleading this super-intelligent kid.
May be one day when
he grows up a bit and knows how trains move, he would say, "that uncle on
the train was so stupid to think elephants move the train!" :)
