The home sun
“It doesn’t matter how slowly you move, the main thing is that you don’t stop.”
by Bruce Lee)
I then just returned from the army a few days ago, but I already had time to buy myself the most fashionable jeans of the Pyramids.
In the evening, a friend of Valerko (also in the "Pyramids") jumped to me and called into the video salon for some deficit film, something like "Deadly Karatist", or "Sales police officer strikes back."
My father, accompanying us on the threshold, asked:
Did you go to the cinema at the satellite?
“Pf-f, Dad, the movie is yesterday, we’re in a video salon.
What else is this?
Do you not know? You are giving! In short, you pay a ruble, you enter, you sit down, there is a huge telescope - maybe 60 centimeters of screen. Include in appearance a cool American combatant with translation and everyone is watching. Come with us, you will not regret it.
Dad smiled and said:
“In the year fifty-two or three, a real TV with a water lens was brought to the club. So we also broke the crowds, because no one had seen television live at the time. They also took rubles from the nose, only with old money. Everyone sat down, pushed their heads, watched some news, and as well as you were entirely excited.
“Daddy, well you compared: a black and white telephone with a lens and an American movie in sight.
I do not see any fundamental difference.
How do you not see? You are joking, right?
"Remember my word, progress cannot be stopped, someday in thirty or forty years, and maybe even earlier - these your sights will be in every apartment, look - I don't want to.
Valeria and I evaluated Dad’s sad joke and looked around. Well, where in every house can take a view, if it stands like "Icarus" along with all the passengers?
Closing the door behind us, the father stopped, cried out to us and said:
- By the way, I now remember, once your grandfather Vasya, told how he and the boys, probably in the year of the twelfth or thirteenth, came to a wealthy neighbor. Half a day they were there with him: the straw was carved, the water was pulled, the wood was folded, something else on the farm was messed up, and for this the neighbor brought them into the hallway and showed a miracle - for five minutes he turned on a real electric light.
Vasya after that night did not sleep, dreamed that someday, in many years and in his house will appear his personal home sun.
Now guys, go on now. Good luck to see the lamp.