This weekend I went to read stories to the elderly with Iolani storytellers (Spoonful of Sugar)- why we read children stories to sleeping, Japanese-speaking, angry elderly is beyond me. The drive there is actually pretty precarious. The path I took up the mountain was Wilhelmina Rise, which was a pretty steep straight road. Only around the top did I notice that the sign for Sierra Drive was reoccurring very frequently. Only when I arrived at the nursing home did it hit me that Sierra Drive was a smoother, winding path up the mountain. Feeling rather dumb for taking the steeper, narrower path, I was reminded by the physics term of work.
Work in Physics is defined as the amount of force used over a distance. I almost did the same amount of work going up the steep path than I would've on Sierra road, because the increase in force on the stupid path is compensated by a decrease in distance traveled. Moral of the story is, if you want to punish your grandparents and put them in at Maunalani nursing home(or any nursing home), take the flatter way up the mountain to avoid climbing it.
go around not up
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