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Scotland might look like a few inches away on a map, but if you try swimming there, you're going to be in a world of hurt. Remember: scale is everything.
Transcript
- 00:13
Selena and Chantell have been looking forward to going to Disneyworld for months… [Fireworks above the DisneyLand caste]
- 00:17
But they’ve been waiting outside their hotel for the park shuttle for an hour…
- 00:21
..the old lady next to them keeps telling longwinded stories about the good ol’ days... [Old woman telling stories to Selena and Chantell]
- 00:26
…and it’s so hot, even the mosquitoes are breaking a sweat.
- 00:29
Yeah, it’s a pretty non-magical day in the Magic Kingdom.
Full Transcript
- 00:32
Chantell is fed up. [Chantell sat on a bench looking fed up]
- 00:33
She tells Selena that she’s sick of waiting, and she’s going to walk to the park, whether
- 00:37
her sister wants to come or not.
- 00:38
Selena tells Chantell she’s crazy.
- 00:40
The park is seriously far from their hotel, plus, there are gators on the way. [An aligator lurking in a field]
- 00:44
Chantell is so sick of waiting she doesn’t even care about gators…
- 00:47
And she doesn’t think the park is really all that far.
- 00:49
Selena is determined to prove her sister wrong. [Selena stood up at the bus stop]
- 00:51
She doesn’t want Chantell to end up as gator-bait…
- 00:53
And it’s generally fun to prove your sister wrong.
- 00:56
Selena drags Chantell over to the big map that sits by the shuttle stop. [Selena showing Chantell the map of the park]
- 00:59
She points out their hotel, and then points out the park.
- 01:02
Surely, this will prove to Chantell that it’s way too far to walk.
- 01:05
But Chantell isn’t buying it.
- 01:08
To her, the park and the hotel look close on the map. [Chantell adamant she can walk from the hotel to the park]
- 01:11
Selena tells her sister that she’s got to think about the scale of the map.
- 01:14
Chantell laughs, saying that maps don’t have scales. [a little fish swimming]
- 01:17
They aren’t fish.
- 01:18
Selena rolls her eyes, wonder for the millionth time how they're related, and shows Chantell
- 01:22
what she means by map scale.
- 01:24
Down in the corner, there’s a key that shows that every inch on the map equals one mile [Map key indicating 1 inch = 1 mile]
- 01:27
in real life.
- 01:28
Selena puts a finger next to the little ruler on the scale to get a rough idea of how much
- 01:32
an inch is.
- 01:33
Next, she uses her finger to count off the number of inches between the hotel and the [Selena counting how many miles from the hotel to the park on the map]
- 01:37
park.
- 01:38
Turns out there’s 15.
- 01:39
15 inches equals 15 miles, she tells Chantell.
- 01:42
That’s a long stretch of swampy, mosquito-y, gator-y road…
- 01:46
Especially on a day that feels like some giant somewhere just took a really long, steamy [Man taking a steamy shower]
- 01:50
shower.
- 01:51
Chantell groans and gives in.
- 01:53
There’s no way she’s going to walk 15 miles….
- 01:55
And the shuttle can’t be too much longer, can it?
- 01:57
Besides, the wait won’t be total torture. [Chantell and Selena sit back on the bus stop bench]
- 01:59
That is until the old lady next to them decides its time for one more story of the good
- 02:03
ol’ days.
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