Chapter 19 The Love of California Teens
California was misty in early October.
The weather is getting cooler and the fog in the morning cannot dissipate by noon.
Because of the large temperature difference between day and night, California's fruits are very sweet and delicious. However, just like China's new (harmonious) Xinjiang, people living here always need to add or reduce clothes all day long to adapt to the weather.
Neller is eleven years old and lives in Susanville, Larson County, California.
In the past month, a toy has become popular in California. It is made of plastic and needs to be equipped with a battery. Above is a small slightly green screen, and below are four directional keys and two round operation buttons.
When the grocery store was first placed, it was not very popular. Although it was made of plastic like the toys in the store, it was not colorful and not attractive at all.
However, after a few days, people kept buying these simple toys, young and old. It didn't take long to sell all these strange-looking plastic toys.
The owner of the grocery store was curious and asked carefully before he realized that this was a so-called electronic game console.
He was also wondering, shouldn't the video game be buried in the soil several years ago?
The person who came to buy it was a little unhappy when he heard the boss pulling the machine together with the trash from Atari before. He deliberately asked the boss to see the place on the screen above. The boss looked along the buyer's finger and saw black dots, blocks of different shapes, and kept falling according to the player's operations.
"Is this something fun?"
"Of course it's fun!"
The boss is a little skeptical. You should know that the toys sold in grocery stores, whether they are made in this state, in the United States, or imported from abroad, are shoddy and cheap gadgets. The accuracy is very poor and rough. They often stop and scrap after playing for a few hours.
If the boss hadn't been strong, maybe how many people would have complained about quality issues!
He has never seen a game like a square machine in front of him before and is not interested in it. However, since the buyer has agreed, he will enter more.
This thing is twenty dollars per, and the purchase price is fifteen dollars. If you sell it, you can make five dollars. There is no reason not to make money.
When Neller went out to play, he saw the children around him showing off, holding a square machine and pressing it around.
He went over to watch, and looked at him with a gaze. He wanted to borrow it for fun, but the little friend didn't even shook him. Neller was not angry, he was already used to it.
It’s not that Neller is introverted, but that these friends nearby always don’t like to play with him, and gradually he doesn’t touch their cold butts anymore.
However, he was not the most unfortunate, the most unfortunate guy. Although someone played with him, everyone bullied him. When he was in school, he was always stuffed with dirty things in the closet, and Neller also heard that someone was peeing on him.
Rather than being treated like that, it’s better to play alone.
As for why others ignore Neller. Neller probably understands that it is probably because he always gets a test.
In the eyes of those people, not taking e or f is a mistake, and they cannot play with them.
Naylor went home and told his parents that he didn't want to take the exam well and wanted to get the e-f. As a local lawyer, his father scolded him fiercely, saying that he was going to look the same as those fools.
If you want to live a good life in the future, but don’t study hard, you will think about playing all day long.
Don’t look at those kids, they all take e and f now, as if they are very carefree. When they graduate from high school, they can’t even go to college. They are only worthy of working in fast food restaurants with those black (harmonious) ghosts and living on the line of food and clothing. That’s hell on earth, my child.
Neller didn't think there was anything wrong with working in a fast food restaurant. Not only could you eat fast food every day, but you could also get tips.
However, he was wise to not say it out loud, and there would be no good results if there was any doubt about his father.
With such a family, Naylor naturally won’t have any pocket money.
Originally, my father thought he was not working hard in his studies, and it would be even worse if he knew that he wanted money to buy toys.
So, Neller took advantage of the holiday to find a job delivering newspapers.
It is one hundred cents to give one a week's newspaper, and twenty dollars to give one a week's newspaper.
Don’t think it’s easy to send twenty companies, subscribers are scattered, and Nellet sets out before dawn, and the sun rises high and has not finished delivering it yet.
It is estimated that this is why Neller was able to find this job for delivery so easily.
I felt fresh on the first day of work, but I felt a little boring on the third day.
On the fifth day, Neller began to feel that what his father said was right. As expected, studying hard is the right way. If you don’t study hard and mess around, you will be better than death in the future.
After working for a week, Neller cherished the money he earned twenty dollars. This was the first time he had received so much money and the first time he used the money he earned from his hard work.
I went to the grocery store with twenty dollars and looked for the plastic toy, but I couldn't find it. The boss said it would be sold out and it would take some time to arrive.
Neller lowered his head in disappointment, and immediately raised his head and said to the boss, "I want to book one."
Every day afterwards, Nelle would come to the grocery store to order Mao. Those who didn't know thought that he had become a child (harmonious) worker here.
"Uncle Tyson, did the game console arrive today?" Neller pushed open the door of the grocery store and asked with hope.
The grocery store owner watched Neller come and return with excitement every day, and was used to it. However, the goods did arrive today. He smiled and stretched out his hand, pointed inside and said, "Just there, take it yourself."
"Really?" Neller was surprised at first, then rushed over there in three or two steps.
Boss Tyson looked at his reckless look and wanted to remind him not to mess with anything else. However, he thought that his father was a lawyer and would be able to mess with him if he messed up. He would definitely be able to pay for it.
However, you should be careful when you go and ask for money. If you get bitten back and blackmail it is not worth it.
In the United States, lawyers are respected because they are respected, but no one likes them.
Although the social status is high, it is similar to the litigation sticks in ancient China. In fact, the American people believe that many lawyers are legal sticks.
No matter who it is, no matter whether you win the lawsuit or not, you have to take off a layer of skin.
"Be careful," Tyson said.
Neller was very obedient. Since the boss said that, he stopped running away and walked slowly to the counter where the hydraulic game console was placed. He picked up the hydraulic game console, touched the wood coated with tung oil, and admired the patterns inside the glass.
Chapter completed!