Cerebral palsy, love and diamond necklace

We in the MCC a respected Ministry in the 1980s worked as a programmer.
All admired: it quickly, accurately, and efficiently originally wrote the program. Then everything had to save computer time (one car was on the whole building, on the third floor), and his program was the most economical.

Jobs in MCC was twenty-four hours, and if there is an interruption in the program, all were glad to go to his home for the adjustment.
Why are pleased? And because of his beautiful wife was very hospitable, tea drying, smile - just enough for all. [Next]

But the programmer was one drawback: He had cerebral palsy. Drove him to work on the car his friend, who lived in a nearby stairwell, who worked at a nearby table. In a building without elevator in the center of Moscow, he was carrying it to the third floor on hands (Programmer was skinny).

His wife, also a programmer working in a nearby building, but often visited us.
And next to him was when during lunch accidentally tripped automatic fire extinguishing system, with the release of poisonous gas into the room. And she herself is quite fragile, barely pulled his portage. Both then were treated.

Of course, her friend asked, and how you got there, with this? He's like everything is arranged? ..
Wife kept silent, smiling while some condescending smile.

Came perestroika. MCC gradually closed. Programmers began to receive invitations from California. Said to his wife to help us move - a year will buy you a diamond necklace. His wife smiled her mysterious smile.

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Well, not in a year, and somewhere in a year or two, Programmer found in the catalog section of diamond necklaces, tore these pages, wrote a check for a similar amount, he gave it all to his wife, saying: - Behold, I promised!
She grabbed it, were glad, and check the page, kissed him and ran out without saying a word.

And after three hours in the house drove the newest automatic wheelchair. Much better than the one that issued the Programmer at work.

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You ask: where is the necklace ...? You are right: there is no necklace. There stroller.
You may ask: But where are about love? .. And you're wrong. The answer is to find every man.

© Copyright: Boris Vasilyev 2, 2014
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