1 hour = 60 minutes

It's almost 2:00 pm. I am sitting in the class waiting for the maths paper to begin - the booklet is in front of us, but we aren't allowed to open it. Instructions and other details are given on the front page. Before the paper, from 9 to 12, we had attempted a rather gruelling accounts paper. It was full of numbers and most of us couldn't balance the balance sheet.

So, all set for the maths paper. The paper says the duration will be 120 minutes. Atleast it will be shorter than accounts, only 2 hours. Suddenly one guy exclaims, "120 minutes...4 hours!", in a tone of complete shock at the hell they are putting us through.

The whole class burst into laughter. This guy presumably belled the CAT, was going to give a maths paper and couldn't convert minutes into hours! Some explained that this was the MANAC effect (accounts is called MANagerial Accounting and Control here). For some reason, I found the episode hilarious and can't stop laughing whenever I think of it (though it may not have the same effect on most others). WIMWI can drive the sanest minds over the cliff into madness.