Ruby Chef. Prose in English. Natalia Patratskaya
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so much sausage loaves you take out?
– I’ll eat it myself!
– That’s how much you eat, so much and make out.
A crowd gathered.
The fat man broke a loaf of sausage into two parts:
– One piece of bread, the second sausage, – and began to eat both.
But the sausage in the throat he did not climb, probably, the audience interfered. He did not finish the loaf of sausage. The remaining sausage loaves were seized from him, he was punished.
The chef entered two institutes, but went to the food institute. Sausage production interested him, he wanted to develop mechanisms for the food industry. Having entered the institutes, he did not go to study, but went to the sanatorium of the meat-packing plant and only after a good rest went to work, and then went to study.
The chief was called for work, he left the office. Here and the staff one by one returned to the place.
If the gas is air and fresh water is equal to sea water, then everything is fine. Each by itself. If one dump water into the sea, then the other is to close the taps of the air supply. Forcibly you will not be nice, since you do not need air from the pipes, let them take it from the air.
Rimma was so depressed by life that she did not call anyone. But the telephone rang. She picked up the phone.
– Rimma, hello! How are you feeling? – she heard the voice of Olga.
“Hello,” said Rimma, so sad and pitiful that she shuddered.
– What happened this time?
– Everything is fine, I’m getting used to my personal life.
– Can I help you?
“Yes, I’ve got everything done by somebody here, and some kind of TV is all over the wall.”
– Good question. I can buy it from you.
– No, I am not selling, I did not put it here, not for me to sell, suddenly the former mother will appear!
– I agree, then so, turn on and use. You twist the handle, and before you pass the regions.
– Thank you, I’ll now take a look at the land, but I don’t understand how you know everything? – asked Rimma and heard the whistles, and it seemed to her that it was not Olga, but some of the men spoke through a filter for telephones that distorted the voice.
Rimma called Olga back:
– I had the opportunity to view the entire globe, but I wanted to watch only one person. For safety reasons, each person must be grounded or de-energized.
– What does it look like in reality? – Olga asked.
– For example. The man lies and watches TV, or sits at the computer, or reads a book. An elementary current of desires passes through him if he accidentally wandered into an erotic picture or saw sexual moments on the screen. After a while, he develops an ordinary hunger and a state of dissatisfaction.
– What does he want at such a moment?
– So that the one whom he chased came and brought food and that she cooked food and fell in love with him. And the most important thing is to leave after that, not having drunk tea.
– How does a woman respond to such a situation?
– Once or twice she may well meet all such desires, if… If she wants it herself, and if she does not want a sloth, then she may be lazier than him and not read or watch erotic materials. So they died out. From laziness. Having thought of this version of life, I grinned and remembered the alarming and calling eyes of a superficially familiar large man, but I did not strive to approach the new object of women’s suffering. I still understood, communicating with different people, that people perceive an ordinary registered marriage differently, and I didn’t want to climb into this variety of opinions.
Olga did not answer this humor.
Yesterday at work they read how invented condensed milk. This is opposite Rimma in the office, hiding behind an old plotter, decorated with blooming violets, a very strange man is sitting. Imagine a working engineer in 80 years. It is hard to imagine? For his work biography, he worked exclusively as a design engineer.
He began to draw on the reshyshin, then on the drawing board and now draws in the computer. Sometimes he was the head of the design bureau, sometimes the head of the department, and now he is the lead designer. A sinusoid is present in any biography, he is no exception, he is a man of the golden rule, which says that work is the main thing in life.
Yes, he is gray, so already laid was gray. But he is in his mind. And he quickly moves when walking. He is married a second time, his second wife is 17 years younger. But it does not work, but it works. His son lives overseas, but his daughter from his first marriage lives nearby, and she is the only one who shares his passion for the dacha. On weekends, he travels by train to the country in any weather. He himself cleans the roof from snow in the winter and from the leaves in the autumn, he upholsters a toilet and a garage with a profile sheet.
Sometimes he and his wife make long walks on weekends or visit museums, parks, observation platforms of the city. He rarely takes vacation or sick leave, practically he is always at work. It happens that he argues with the chief, who is the head of the design bureau.
In the afternoon Rimma and Olga walked in the forest.
“I printed regular books and presented them to different people,” Rimma said.
– And the people? – Olga asked.
– Some grab the book and give further, others sell. Often they don’t need a gift book, they want to get money for it. They call the publisher, make comments. Then the author is called from the publisher and give the gift comments.
– Who is to blame for the whirlpool of such generosity?
– Author. The author should not give their books to greedy people.
– How to weed them out?
“A detective is needed at this place.” I gave the book to my boss. He has a first wife. His wife does not work, but makes money from gifts. She was given something in the store, she found a defect, put the entire store on her ears, and she was given money for an item she did not buy.
– Rimma, you put so much work into your books. And then you give them! Do I need to publish my own books?
– You’re right, you need to publish only copies for yourself, to work on the works. People who publish their books in large quantities often live in books from their homes.
– There are those who sell books?
– Those who sell books through shops spend a lot of money on the sale and publication of books. Life is so wise that it is easier not to publish than to publish books, it is better not to write than to write. But there are those who have written themselves, but nothing is sold. Therefore, there are gifts.
– What do they do with gifts?
– Throw out, read or peredarivat, less often sell. Stuck in my teeth this topic.
The next walk of Rimma and Olga came to an end.
Very different problems were busy at work. The water element of the oceans, somewhat reminiscent of space, immersion, as well as taking off, does not happen without overloads.
It is ridiculous to say, but for several years Rimma thought about the fact that she didn’t like submarines at all, working as a designer in completely different areas, she was constantly thinking about submarines. Somehow she was very lucky, because she was given a small device for deep-sea diving to develop, from such work she was in seventh heaven with happiness.
But