Two anecdotes

I met Gautam and his new friends from Berkley on last saturday and had a great time. Two very interesting anecdotes were shared, which i would like to blog about:

First one is by Gautam on Newyork downtown red light. If you have been to Newyork and walked on the streets of Manhattan, then you must have experienced this. On a red light intersection there are scores of people waiting to cross from either side. One often wonders standing there that how will so many people cross each other at the same time? Gautam analogically compares it to a big gladiator war movie where armies are waiting in front of each other waiting for a signal from their captains to march ahead and attack the other side. This is so true. Even i can visualize the scene. The analogy is perfect here. And as the horses trample over the army and humans collide in LOTR, a scene of similar effect but with very low intensity happens on every redlight intersection after every minute or so.

Second one was shared by Michel, Gautam's friend. He says that he was named so because moments before he was about to be born, there was a soccer match going on and his dad had said that he will name his son after the name of the first guy who scores a goal. He thanks that Michel scored the first goal because other options had more Polish names and he is an Italian.

Ain't it nice!