While car owners park their cars in the HDB carpark apartments, we go cycling on the carpark roof- late in the night. Today, he chanced upon a painted lightning arrester, which was protruding from the wall and quipped, 'amma, look how badly this wall has been painted'. When it was clarified that it was a lightning arrester, he got curious: 'do they get electricity for the lights from lightning with this?'. We reasoned that it is difficult to extract energy out of lightning. With no second to spare, he immediately intervened: 'I have an idea. Let's place a knife in the path of lightning, so that it will cut electricity from light'. And with all earnestness: 'Isnt that a great idea?'. So, knives on lightning paths, please...
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