| Forbidden Plates | |
My mother likes traveling very much. Traveling is a good opportunity for her to explore the world, meet new interesting people and to have a rest from routine life. Travelling is just inseparable part of her life. She has visited a lot of different countries already. And from every trip she brings a plate. She is not obsessed about ware. No. It is like a souvenir. A plate with the most famous sightseeing of a place she has visited. It is like a tradition for her. She has a lot of plates in her forbidden cupboard. It is forbidden, because she doesn’t allow to people to open the cupboard and to use plates. It is the most important rule in her house. These plates serve for attracting attention of people who come to her, but nothing more. And my mother is very proud of having them. And she takes care of them very thoroughly. She has plates from exotic Singapore, charming France, mystery Morocco, cold Alaska, severe Russia and so on and so forth. Once upon a time her aunt Trudy came to visit her for a short period. Aunt Trudy is rather eccentric woman of middle age without any complex. She likes freedom and does everything she wants. She and my mother are almost the same age. It was first time when she visited our town. Usually it was we who visited her. So, Trudy arrived very late at night without calling like a bolt from the blue. She just said “Hi neffy” and went to bed. The next day was usual sunny day and there was nothing for threaten. My mother a fitness trainer and that day she had morning group. As usual she had breakfast and went on work leaving aunt Trudy alone in the house. As Trudy and mother hadn’t opportunity to have a talk, my mother couldn’t explain to her all rules in her house. But when my mother returned home she was terrified. First, on the kitchen table was filets of beef, but my mother is a vegetarian and she has never had meat in her house. It is a mystery how Trudy got it. And second, she used mother’s souvenir plates from forbidden cupboard. Why she took exactly that plates while there were a lot of another ware in the house? Mother was almost raving with anger. Not to open the cupboard was the first rule. So, they had a serious talk with hard words. And I doubt that Aunt Trudy will visit our town again. |
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