My google map was not responding.
Public transport was not in sight.
How far is Hill road, I asked at the roadside stall.
"15 minutes", the stall-owner replied.
Just to reconfirm I asked same question to a person parking car nearby. It's hardly 2 minutes: He replied.
I was a bit confused. 15 minutes or 2 minutes?
After a couple of minutes walk, I asked same question to a lady waiting to cross the road.
She replied: It's about 30 minutes.
More confusion: 30 minutes after 5 minutes walk?
I continued walking down.
After 10 minutes walk, I asked someone for a landmark for the place I had reached. I thought someone could pick me up from there in order to reach me to my destination.
The person couldn't tell me one. She kept looking at the cow instead I was standing next to. Luckily she didn't tell me the cow as the landmark. Otherwise I would've ended up looking at 'google-guy' (snail) instead of google map. (Cow is pronounced as Guy in vernacular.)
The point I am driving home is it's all relative!
Long ago Einstein brought the concept of relativity.
Perhaps by car it was 2 minutes.
By walk it was 15 minutes.
And by the walking speed of the lady it was 30 minutes.
Probably the lady was right. She was pregnant.
The only thing wrong was I didn't confirm the mode of travel. Nor did they specify.
Actually I was wrong not to ask right question.
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