Аннотация: The business of aunt Lucy. A story from the commercial life of the South of Russia.
The business of aunt Lucy. A story from the commercial life of the South of Russia.
Aunt Lucy's childhood is hidden by a light veil. This veil can be lifted from the desired side by the desired edge.
In the USSR, it was not so easy to find those whose relatives were not repressed.
But the repressed are subtly different from each other.
On some of the repressed there is a plate with a "plus" sign, and on others - with a "minus" sign.
It happened historically, and this is the information policy.
About some people they talk a lot and pitifully. They prefer not to talk about others, and if they do mention them, then with a tinge of suspicion.
If there is a "plus" sign, then this is a kind of sacrifice that has become a target for people with a tendency to bad deeds. There are people who are even worse than the former Vlasovites [followers of General Vlasov]...
Aunt Lucy - she is from the first ones. With a "plus" sign. Everyone should sympathize with her, and everyone have a debt in front of her. She punishes bad people on occasion.
In addition, no matter how brutal the repression was, aunt Lucy has many relatives. It depends on how you count. A lot of.
Aunt Lucy arrives in a large southern city and begins to take root.
Any smart person lives for his own pleasure. But how to live well if there is no start-up capital?
The easiest option is to buy some simple product and to take a place nearby a relative who has already started trading.
After a while, experience appears, and instead of cardboard boxes in the fresh air, a kiosk appears.
Let's say a kiosk is selling sausage.
Customers buy sausage, but not very often. In order to sell a sausage, you must first buy it.
In addition to the cost of buying a sausage, you need to pay back and forth, to those and to these.
In general, there is little income.
But aunt Lucy has a plate with a "plus" sign. Everyone have a debt in front of her. Plus the connections. They look like spider webs. And knowledgeable people understand: "When a fly gets caught in a web, the more it spins, the more entangled it becomes. It's a device of life. "
The large southern city is located in an area where many people have no "plus" sign.
Consequently, aunt Lucy has the moral right to claim the debt from them. In a sense, she has a right to punish them.
There are many unemployed in the surrounding villages, and in general young people are drawn to big cities.
Soon, saleswomen - yesterday's schoolgirls - who came from small neighboring settlements, were working at aunt Lucy's kiosk.
Suddenly, former schoolgirls discover that they have a major shortage of goods. Let's say their monthly salary is ten thousand rubles. And the shortage is thirty-forty thousand rubles.
Aunt Lucy acts energetically. She applies, she goes to where there are relatives or acquaintances.
The case is shaky.
But it is shaky case for people of any experience. The girls, yesterday's schoolgirls, are scared. Who is interested in starting his adult life with big troubles? Angry uncles ask to sign some incomprehensible papers.
Girls report a dangerous and incomprehensible situation to their parents.
Parents are simple and poor people. They tend to be employed in low-paying jobs.
But there are grandparents. Old people receive a pension.
In general, through collecting money from relatives and through loans, frightened ordinary provincial people collect thirty - forty thousand rubles. This is from one girl. And from two - it's almost eighty thousand.
This is already something. This is outside of the normal trade turnover.
Not so much, but not so little either. The kiosk does not disappear anywhere ... It continues to function with the presence of aunt Lucy in it ...
The frightened people had handed collected money. The scary papers disappear. Saleswomen are free from headaches and risks. They can continue looking for work in the big southern city.
Aunt Lucy's business is growing. In general, it's not bad when everyone owes you ...
Return the debt to aunt Lucy! Be punished and get rid of the burden of suspicion of addiction to a bad behavior!
August 31, 2021 17:28
Translation from Russian into English: August 31, 2021 18:45.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Бизнес тети Люси. Рассказ из коммерческого быта Юга России".