Two engineers were standing on the road, under a pedestrian overpass one day, when it be began to rain. At first it was only sprinkling lightly but as time went on it slowly began to come down heavier. The wind that day was fairly strong and was pushing the rain at an angle .
One of the engineers looked up, shielding his eyes from the rain, and said, “Even though there’s an overpass, its still hitting us.”
“It’s the wind.” came the response, “Let us move a little to the left so we don’t get wet.”
The two shuffled a little to the left but the wind was strong. Both were completely aware that they were still being hit by the rain.
The second engineer looked straight ahead, “The rain seems to be falling at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal” she said, measuring the angle by holding her arm at the same angle as the rain was infront of herself.
“Judging by the height of the overpass and the angle of the rain, in order not to get wet, we should be standing somewhere over there.” The first engineer pointed at the ground about 10 metres away.
“Yes,” the other engineer followed on, “but at the angle of the rain and the width of the overpass, the overall height of the space which doesn’t get hit by the rain would be pretty minimal. Even if we were to stand there, from our own heights, we would still be getting hit by the rain.
The two engineers then decided to take shelter under a nearby building.
[What a climatic let down. I just overexaggerated five minutes of my day]
