From the series: The rules discovered by chance (1)
A boy named Wojtek, aged nine, lived in the early fifties in a small town in Lower Silesia, in the Valley. The town was beautifully located and has many wonderful places to have fun with colleagues. But let us focus on one detail on the boy. Well, maybe will a few digressions. But just as much as necessary.
mother bought in the summer of one pair of tennis shoes or sneakers at a time.
Buying a new pair was a process more complicated, because with the class struggle fiercer, sneakers and gradually disappeared mysteriously.
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were inexpensive, but it became increasingly difficult to get it and probably was in bad taste to buy them more. In any case, my mother always bought only one pair, and only when the sneakers or running shoes were beginning to reveal excessive wear, began the process of buying a new pair.
If the process dragged on, for example, followed by temporary difficulties with the production of sneakers or tennis shoes, or lacked the proper size, he threatened to walk barefoot.
One day, when the boy was on holiday with their grandmother in Warsaw, the grandmother could not take care of it, so she gave him 25 dollars and said to himself bought shoes or sneakers.
time was already high, because just with one sole trampka become unglued and left him no choice but to walk barefoot.
associated with the two problems. One
smaller.
Stores with sneakers or trampkami was in Warsaw a little, but were located at distances from each other as large as the nine-year boy. Some of the money had to spend on a tram tickets, but he had a supply, because a tram ticket cost 50 cents and 21 gold sneakers. His budget provides for eight runs so the tram.
This smaller problem lay in the fact that aroused great sympathy tram passengers who were afraid to trample on his bare feet.
was a little embarrassing for the boy.
larger and - That during the search rate is foul and shop trampkami or sneakers was created a problem with measuring.
the New World in a small, but socialized dandruff Battle of the trade, shop in the basement with an entrance from the street down the stairs, saleswoman saw a little boy shrugged. She found the back of old newspapers. She told me to just clean the feet before they allowed him to measure the sneakers ..
course, tennis lessons from this effort, as long as fit for use, were a great treasure.
new sneakers (just focus on sneakers) theoretically should be sufficient for the entire summer season, if not playing football, known in social circles of the then young boys, leg. Because
boy belonged to an elite group of young footballers, chasing a ball on the squares between the houses. There were few cars, so parking was not all. Everywhere was full of fields and everywhere was full of guys chasing a ball.
As teams were formed in Warsaw, in all cities, towns and villages Polish?
Perhaps you, dear readers, too, so you were involved into the game?
the yard has always been two guys, the fugitive for the best players. And they were the captains of two teams. They chose the guys standing around, so as to select the best apples from a stall
first first captain selects the best player, finished the game. Then the second best of the rest. Weaker players were elected on that later, they ranked their position was worse.
This team had chances to win, the captain chose the better players. This is conducive to estimate the skill. She created a hierarchy of group: the later the boy was chosen, the weaker was its ranking position. And it had nothing to do with his physical strength, stature, not even the end of the age. Oxalis agile player was sought, but the teddy bear and a strong bully sometimes waited a long time and was lucky to finally taken him to the defense, on the pole.
Wojtek was not taken to the team in a high position, but played frantically, trying to fight higher ranked players back yard.
And it's very trampkom harm. So much so, that often did not withstand the season. Of course, its greatest exploitation of sneakers was in the spring, when the guys were particularly hungry for the game. In winter, the ball is not played. There were other fun: skating or skiing, depending on local conditions. Then sneakers, if successfully survived the winter and are safe. Sometimes even completely, when the spring turned out, they are already too small.
Yeah. I think I got nervous enough that readers najwytrwalszych not talking about. Those who remained (the halo is still at least one?), Impatient ask where this principle is the second trampka?
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Well, now I say, except that now the variety will be a sneakers.
Because it bought interchangeably, which succeeded.
sneakers were all white and had a height of shoes. White soles in the shape of boats and white, textile bulwark of two holes staring at two holes of the second pair, located within slightly more than half the length of the sole of the shoe. Okolonymi metal rings, also in white. For air supply
sneakers have a similar structure. They were in beige, a little higher, because they had textile upper for ankle and round ankle protectors made of rubber the same color as the sole.
New shoes smelled of typical and nice, like any precious booty, rubber. It was clean for a while, usually a fairly short time.
trampka explain the second rule, then, paradoxically, for example, sneakers. Must somehow be called, and I like more trampka rule. But it's a matter of taste, of not in name, and content ..
is not especially revealing, but the nine-year-old boy who discovers a rule, do not know. And the old man still remembers that experience. I think this is something worth? Just I want to find out, by publishing this story.
Wojtek went with my parents on holiday to Kaszuba. Sneakers after a spring season trampkarskim were still in good condition, but absolutely filthy. With their great white remains a memory that could recall only the desperate effort of the imagination. Locals, Kashubian generously boys did not notice this, but it was a little ashamed to show up in the village in such dirty sneakers. A Wojtek wanted to catch the local matches footballers.
evening, decided to wash sneakers.
Conditions for quarters were decent. Had a big bowl, the water we had to bring the well, then pour the dirty somewhere in the yard, surrounded by the barn in front of a bicameral house where he lived with his parents, and the barn, which stood a horse and two cows. Posts
large bowl on a special, metal, painted enamel paint, with no bottom rack with space for laundry soap, and started the first tenisówka. Dipped it in water, from which sneakers became even dirtier, and a slimy, only now dirty and repulsive. Concerned about the boy
started to go gray namydlać soap and a brush to brush your hands. Dirt on tenisówku was disgusting, and sneakers seemed to be irretrievably damaged the unluckiest of the operation.
The longer the boy he fought for the purity, the worse it looked like the object of his efforts.
look at the second, dry sneakers dopełniało measure of despair.
Now the second sneakers seemed to actually not so dirty, very decent and well-suited to be playing tomorrow. In contrast, the wet submerged in dirty soapy water and a kpiącego now desperate efforts boy.
boy made a decision. He has at least one decent sneakers. The latter may podeschnie for tomorrow and somehow it will assume. Finally, we go to sleep. Tomorrow's match.
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What was his face tomorrow!
podesechł sneakers, his ciemnobrudny color turned to light yellow, shining purity. A second sneakers, as he was dirty, so he was.
And the boy had no choice, how to create happy to clean sneakers, and "somehow", with some disgust, the latter.
Well what is the second principle trampka? No
Exactly! How?
Fortunately, I clean sneakers get dirty faster somehow. After a few matches, no one remembered the strange asymmetry. With the exception of the boy. He is remembered for a lifetime.
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