Utter Randomness

So there we were in class, growing bored and tired as all we had been doing for the past one and a half hours or so was just listening to our lecturer talk. I guess she was getting bored too, so anyway this is what happened...


(FOREX Risk and Risk management being discussed in class, students hurriedly copying...)

Lecturer: "In the case of Company Three, it could be exposed to economic risk - unexpected changes in exchange rates on future cash flows... What animal eats wood?"

Students: (Stunned - Looks up at lecturer) "Huh?"

Lecturer: (With calm face) "What animal likes to eat wood?"

One student: "Uhh... woodpecker?"

Lecturer: (Laughs) "No lah, woodpecker pecks wood, not eat it! So what animal eats wood?"

Students: "Wtf... Termites?"

Lecturer: "Exactly, termites!"

Students thinking : What in the world has that got to do with what we're learning? Is it like some new term in finance we've never heard of before?
(Since we were covering multilateral netting, we thought maybe the netting thing had to do with animals or something)

Lecturer: "Actually I was so bored lah, that's why I asked you the question. So the class wouldn't be so bored, right? From now on I'll ask you a question after every point, okay?"

Students break out in laughter, all thinking:
"What the... so random one!"

Ahh yes, she can be so random... the last time she was like that it was something about thunder and God's way of telling us that the topic was coming out for the exam. But that's a story for another day, and maybe something I should remember while doing my final revision.
Utter randomness~