Аннотация: Senya and the game of hide-and-seek. A story.
Senya and the game of hide-and-seek. A story.
After Senya visited the stalls and received money from them, friends approached him with disturbing news.
The kids are unhappy with something and even write the words "Freedom to Nelson Mandela!" on scraps of cardboard.
Why Nelson Mandela? Did he seem to live in Africa?
However, Senya acted with energy and skill.
He issued money to friends to buy filters for liquids.
Friends ordered an urgent delivery of filters via the Internet, and ten minutes later trucks with boxes drove into the yard. The boxes were filled with filters.
The boxes were placed in the yard.
Senya gathered the kids and announced the beginning of the game of hide-and-seek.
The kids turn their backs to Senya, close their eyes and count to three (but you need to count slowly, without haste, in chorus).
Then they open their eyes and start looking for Senya.
And Senya will hide behind the filters. It's not easy to find Senya! The kids will need to look for him diligently!
Exactly five minutes is given for the search !
Senya, after the start of the game of hide-and-seek, went into one of the stalls to conduct a preventive conversation with an entrepreneur who worked there.
Meanwhile, the kids counted in chorus to three, opened their eyes and started looking for Senya.
However, the boxes with filters turned out to be very large. These boxes were randomly placed around the yard, and it is not so easy to find Senya behind the filters.
Exactly four minutes forty seconds after the start of the game, Senya quietly left the stall and stood behind one of the boxes with filters.
And after four minutes and fifty-eight seconds, Senya came out from behind the box and clapped his hands loudly.
The kids found him right away.
Since the kids found Senya in the last second of the game, it was not clear who won - the kids or Senya. Everyone could consider themselves a winner.
The kids went home to chew rusks with boiling water, friends went to the sports ground to rotate pedals of velosimulators, and Senya went for a walk around the yard to take a closer look at the purchased filters.
None of the participants in the game and of observers understood anything. Why Nelson Mandela? Why filters? Why the game of hide-and-seek?
But what is important is that the kids are in a good mood, inscriptions "Freedom for Nelson Mandela!" are somewhere in the entrance, and Senya once again is demonstrating his generosity and care for the kids by giving money to buy filters.
Many of the inhabitants of the yard were in ununderstanding. And Senya showed the ability to change a negative situation into a positive one!
January 22, 2021 14:38
Translation from Russian into English: January 22, 2021 22:23.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сеня и игра в жмурки. Рассказ'.