When the garbage chute in the entrance deteriorated, the kids did not say anything about this. [an entrance - an element of an apartment building - a common passage-exit, an interstory stairs, a staircases, a places in front of apartments doors...]
But in the air appeared either expectation or tension. Or something else.
The next day, spits were discovered in the entrance.
What is behind these spits? Is this a random event? Or is it a deliberate, symbolic action?
Senya consulted with friends. As a result of the discussion, a decision was made: let the kids sit at home. And do not they leave the apartment.
The former main cultural dude sought to rehabilitate himself, to regain his reputation as a "connoisseur of culture." Somewhere he found reproductions of Ilya Repin's paintings 'They Didn't Wait' ['Не ждали'] (the family didn't expect a relative to come) and Boris Kustodiev's 'Tradeswoman at Tea' ['Купчиха за чаем'] (a woman happy with life is drinking tea alone (but with a cat), enjoying).
Senya looked kindly at the dude: 'Let him make the efforts!'
Reproductions were passed to the kids so they weren 't bored sitting at home.
Senya and his friends sat on the sports playground to talk about business.
At that moment, the kids lowered the note from the balcony using a thread.
'We want some tea!' 'Where to get a cat food? The cat wants to eat! '
Senya looked with irritation at the former main cultural dude.
One of the friends, with good eyesight, considered that the children who went out onto the balcony had facial expressions, as if they had spent time in some smelly room (a mixture of emotions of disappointment and disgust).
The note was read ... Where to take tea? What about food?
All this needs to be discussed... It's necessary to be thinking about it...
March 29, 2020 08:06
Translation from Russian into English: March 29, 2020 08:49.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сеня и мусоропровод. Рассказ'.