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兒子的2028

(2008-12-04 21:02:42) 下一個
兒子今年春天還在五年級的時候,和班裏同學一起暢想了他們的2028,也就是二十年後的他們. 然後所寫所畫被老師裝訂成冊。這個周末,他又拿出來和我一起看.

他們班二十多個學生,想幹什麽的都有。電腦工程師,寵物店老板,馴馬師,醫生,英超聯巨星,作家,家庭主婦,不一而足。不過,共同的特點是每個人都提到了家庭孩子和自己的另一半,大部分都是想象自己有一男一女兩個孩子,有的連名字都起好了,一家人過著正常的生活,除了我家兒子. 這是他寫的.

My 2028

In 2028, at a humble little house on Writer’s Lane in XXX, XX, I was bothered. I had no family other than my maniac dog, Dan and my horde of robots.

Fizzle… Fizzle… Dan had broken N.A.D. (Nerdy Artificial Dog) in a dog fight for who would be snoozing on the couch. N.A.D. as usual had lost. Vacuum… Dust…Mop… Dry…SPLASH! My clean-up droid, that drove me nuts by singing clean up… clean up… everybody clean up… Etc., Etc., Etc.

I felt bored so I sat down at a desk and brought N.A.D. with me. I looked at him… groan… fang marks straight through his head! I called out “Tool box please!” soon enough a robot whizzed by dropping me a tool box. I easily fixed N.A.D. since I had invented him. Dan came to me whimpering and holding his leash. “All right Dan.” I said, “We’ll go for a walk.”

I put on Dan’s leash and opened the door. I walked out toward the sidewalk. Suddenly, a solar powered hovering Subaru sped right over me and barley missed my head. “Crazy driver!” I cursed. I ran quickly to the park.

When people saw me they asked “When is the next Jerry the Menace book coming out?” I was an author as well as an engineer. For my writing life I had created a best selling series called Jerry the Menace out of one of the stories I wrote 20 years ago. I wasn’t a big hit in my engineering, in fact I consider myself lousy at it. Crash! I had crashed into the newly established Albert Einstein Memorial. I felt silly for not looking at where I was going. I was feeling tired so I led Dan home.

When Dan and I got home I opened the door and… Bam! A plate flew and hit me on the head. I saw Dan leap toward my attacker, the clean up droid which had started to sing “On top of mount bloody…” I fell over and landed hard on my face. When I got up Dan had completely had tore my clean up droid into pieces.

In 2028 you sure make some interesting friendships. 

他的很多想法讓我抓狂。

他堅定地認為如今的人們太物質,太貪婪,總是追求自己不需要的東西。他覺得生活能簡單則簡單。他不想要家庭,認為小孩子太麻煩。他覺得父母親都太專製,尤其是亞洲父母,永遠要求地太多。。。

天地良心,我做錯了什麽嗎?好像顯而易見。

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rosez 回複 悄悄話 haha, don't worry, I have a strange thinking son too.
He is lovely.
He will out grow it.
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