During another excruciating 3 hours of physics lab...
Andrea: Ok so we put this here, and that over there... [ruffles through lab notes]
Cindy: No I think this goes here... oh no you were right. [pretends to read notes thoroughly]
Kerry: I think that's it. We should turn it on now. [reaches over and switches on the ...voltage thing]
[Cindy inches away subconsciously]
Andrea: Ok so... it's... *bla bla bla*
[Everybody scribbles down results]
Working in silence.
Fifteen minutes later...
Dave (nice teaching assistant): Your results don't look quite right. Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly? [peers down at the ...voltage thing]
Andrea: We dunno. I think so.
Dave: Well... actually... [rubs his chin (for real!)] these should go that way... and that...
Kerry: Oh.
Andrea: Oh.
Cindy: ...
Dave moves away.
Commotion among the lab group sharing their table.
Obnoxious Guy: No man I'm telling you, the results are wrong!
Spineless Sidekick: Ya think so? But I thought...
Obnoxious Guy: Well obviously you thought wrong coz this does
not look right at all.
Foreign Indian Guy: noOr, I tHink tHe Rrrrresults shoWss thart... [Cindy tunes off, wonders if she could catch the last evening bus without pulling a hamstring]
Andrea: Actually, you guys need these resistor things to make 'em work. [shows them the things]
Obnoxious Guy: [ridiculed look on pasty, rubbery substance some might mistake as FACE)
No, it doesn't make a difference. The lightbulbs already
have resistors. Those were for the previous experiment. [turns back to Spineless Sidekick abruptly]
Andrea rolls eyes at Cindy.
Cindy smiles sympathetically.
Andrea: So you guys got the whole thing working? How'd you do that?
Obnoxious Guy: Well ours is still attached if you wanna have a look.
Andrea, Kerry and Cindy stares at the crazy confusing mass of intertwinning cables and lightbulbs.
Kerry: O-K.
Cindy: [mutters under breath] Well that's helpful.
Andrea: I am so not gonna be nice to them anymore. [disassembles whole kit in loud, jerky movements]
Cindy: ...So... let's try to...
Obnoxious Guy: [cuts in] Hey could we borrow one of your cables? We're short of one.
Andrea: Oh sorry we don't share. [smiles graciously]
Stunned silence at the table.
Cindy does a victory backflip in her phsyics-intolerant mind. Ka-POW! You GO gurl!
Good thing our group still managed to finish the experiment before the other group - might've been even more uncomfortable, I think.
Can't say the OG didn't deserve it though. He has been like that for quite some time now. I guess he finally met his match.
