"Geoff Ryman - Everywhere" - читать интересную книгу автора (Ryman Geoff)

We did that once before. It was dead fun. I think it knows DadтАЩs a bit
down since Granddad.

Call your friend Heidi and ask her to swap clothes with you and
pretend to be each other for a day.

Aw Jeez! Me sisterтАЩs been wearing me watch again! ItтАЩs not fair! It
mucks it up, itтАЩs supposed to know what I like, not her and that flipping
Heidi. And sheтАЩs got her own computer, itтАЩs loads better than mine, it looks
like a shirt and has ear-phones, so no one else can hear it. ItтАЩs not fair!
People just come clod-hopping through. You donтАЩt get to keep nothing.

Look this is all I had to do to get this watch!

Grind fishfood on 3.11, 16.11, 20.12 and every Sunday until 3.3
Clean pavements three Sundays
Deliver four sweaters for Step Mum
Help Dad with joinery for telecoms outstation
Wire up Mrs Grathby for video immersion
Attend school from April 10th to 31 July inclusive

I did even more than that. At least I got some over. IтАЩm saving up for a
pair of cars.

Me and me mates love using the cars. I borrow me DadтАЩs pair. You
wear them like shoes and theyтАЩre smart. ItтАЩs great fun on a Sunday. We all
go whizzin down Lucy Street together, which is this great big hill, but the
shoes wonтАЩt let you go too fast or crash into anything. We all meet up, whizz
around in the mall in great big serpent. You can pre-program all the cars
together, so you all break up and then all at once come back together, to
make shapes and all.

Granddad loved those cars. He hated his stick, so heтАЩd go shooting
off in my DadтАЩs pair, ducking and weaving, and shouting back to me, Come
on, Landlubber, keep up! I was a bit scared in them days, but he kept up at
me til I joined in. HeтАЩd get into those long lines, and weтАЩd shoot off the end
of them, both of us. HeтАЩd hold me up.

He helped me make me lantern and all. Have you seen our lanterns,
all along the mall? They look good when the phosphors go on at night. All
the faces on them are real people, you know. You know the ink on themтАЩs
made of these tiny chips with legs? DadтАЩs seen them through a
microscope, he says they look like synchronized swimmers.

I got one with my face on it. I was bit younger then so I have this really
naff crew cut. Granddad helped me make it. It tells jokes. IтАЩm not very good
at making jokes up, but Granddad had this old joke book. At least I made
the effort.