[A little girl of about eight years old is peering up at the odd mantis-like man on the rooftop, one hand held firmly in a Politoed's flipper as she begins to remark aloud, more to herself than anyone else—]

Distance equals velocity times time plus one-half acceleration times time squared. One-half acceleration is negative nine-point-eight divided by two is negative four-point nine. Falling means no horizontal velocity so VT is zero so it goes away. Distance equals negative four-point-nine times T squared. Ten feet is three-point-zero-four-eight meters. Three meters equals negative four-point-nine times T squared. Divide both sides by negative four-point-nine. Point-six-one-two equals T squared. The square root of point-six-one-two is...

[That's a little harder. Ummm.]

Point...seven-eight-two. So it will take about eight-tenths of a second to fall from that height.

[She looks relatively content with this conclusion.]