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Chapter 81 fridge magnet

mental gymnastics 刘心武 1254Words 2018-03-18
I am a family man.In that space called "home", what do I miss the most?It's a refrigerator -- don't worry, don't blame me for being greedy right away, listen to me tell the whole story: it's a refrigerator sticker, that is, the chassis is a magnet, and the surface is a certain shape. Things that get sucked in.The first refrigerator magnet in my family was brought back from the United States more than ten years ago. It was shaped like a streetcar in San Francisco.Later, every time I come back from my travels, I always like to bring a few refrigerator magnets with various shapes, such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the little pissing boy in Brussels, the mermaid in Singapore, and Mt. Like an overturned wine glass, a hamburger with a corner bitten off, and so on, I also take it home-by the way, there are many and good domestic refrigerators now, but it is rare to see domestic refrigerator magnets in the shape of Chinese characteristics , For example, I have always wanted to buy refrigerator magnets in the shape of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing or the White Pagoda in Beihai, but I have never seen them.You may ask: Love home, just love those refrigerator posts, isn't it too "pediatric"?Listen to me and take a closer look: the first function of refrigerator stickers is not to decorate the refrigerator for people to enjoy. Its first function is to press paper notes. There are some paper notes at home that cannot or do not need to be thrown away immediately, such as some Notifications, receipts for phone bills you just paid, tickets for concerts you’re going to enjoy in a few days, etc., can all be pressed under the refrigerator stickers, but these functions are not the most important in my house. The most important function is that family members leave messages to each other.

The warmth of my home is often not reflected in the whole family sitting together happily.My work and rest time is very weird. I write from 10:00 to 4:00 am every night, sleep from 4:00 am to 12:00 noon, and eat, read newspapers and magazines, read books, listen to music, meet guests or go out after getting up at noon; my wife It’s a normal schedule. I go out shopping and taking a walk in the morning, often eat some fast food outside at noon, and come back at one or two in the afternoon. When I come back, I am active, but she has to take a lunch break.After I get up and wash at noon, I will definitely go to the refrigerator, so I will see the note left by my wife under the San Francisco tram that is bigger than other refrigerator magnets. It may say: "The hamburger has been placed in the microwave oven." Note: the tomatoes in the refrigerator must be washed before eating!" "There are buns with winter vegetables in the kitchen steamer, which only needs to be heated for three minutes. Don't turn over the newspaper and forget to turn off the fire, which will make the whole room full It’s the smell of the pot!” “Don’t look for that plate of salad, it’s spoiled, throw it away! After heating up the fried rice, please eat an apple—don’t be lazy and don’t peel it, just leave the peeled peel on the chopping board Come on!"...Of course, sometimes when I want to go out and she hasn't come back, I will also put a note under the refrigerator magnet for her. I can give a few examples of my message: "The CD is placed in the stereo. It was me yesterday. The new version of "Moonlight" bought for you, you only need to press the PLAY button." "Li Ziyun's article on the pen meeting edition of "Wen Wei Po" is very good, and it has been placed next to your pillow." "Don't be surprised by what you bought. I didn't like it, so I hurried back and exchanged it! Your body is important!"

My son works in a foreign company, and he bought a house with a loan, but he is not yet married. He often comes back to live with us, and he will put a note like this under the refrigerator magnet: "When I come back to sleep at night, it will be late. I have to go to the bar." Street, don't worry, no nonsense." "I'm going back over there. I've got something for you guys in the cupboard, hope you like it." "Nothing, just wanted to write: take care!" Although it is very convenient to make calls, especially my son, who always carries his mobile phone with him, it is still the first choice of my family members to "advertise" and exchange feelings under the refrigerator magnet.

When I came back from outside that day, there was no piece of paper from my wife and children under the refrigerator magnet, and I felt a vacancy in my heart, as if there were no sun, moon and stars in the sky.When I lowered my head, I realized that the San Francisco tram and the piece of paper had fallen on the ground—later I realized it was my cat.The mutual love between family members under the refrigerator stickers is difficult to measure the tonnage of any weighing instrument in the world!
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