My mom called and asked for 500 euros for the holidays, I immediately sent out, although I still can’t forget how my parents hurt me.

Yesterday’s April morning surprised and upset cocker spaniel Erki (according to Hercule’s passport): the owner never praised him, despite the successful search for a rubber duck abandoned in a kalina bush. Then, in general, sat down in the park on a bench, next to the next one, two familiar-smelling ladies from the neighboring entrance sat and buzzed among themselves, as always in good weather. And Platon Olegovich, catching in the conversation of the neighbor a fragment of the phrase “...whether children help parents...”, thought hard, despite his recent intention to actively dissipate on a walk with a cheerful Erki.



A young man became very uncomfortable: today he has twice involuntarily overheard someone else’s conversation. Home first. In the morning, out of habit, he left the kitchen to the balcony, where another door leads - from the former nursery. There, having arrived for a couple of weeks from Valencia after 12 years of separation, the son settled down. I had to hear part of his conversation with his wife. Who else would you call this early?

Rodion said excitedly: 'Remember, before Christmas I told you that my mother called and asked for 500 euros for the holidays? So I immediately deported, although I still cannot forget how my parents offended me. Come on, we're not in church. What is there to let go, to forgive?!



They put all their money into their sister. I figured it out myself. You! But when they need help, they call me. Why did they give the dowry to my sister and I have to support my parents? It is an injustice ...”

In order not to upset Lilichka with his sour face, went for an early walk. We need to calm down, think it over. And then the neighbor’s trouble with the question of whether the children help their parents, as could be more conveniently sat down next to them.



And why would Rodion think we should be supported? Ah! Yesterday, Lilya, thanks for his generosity, joked: "You are our most reliable charitable foundation, Radik!" Maybe his mother's joke made him think of it. There you go. .

The heroic son Platon Olegovich gushed, even the quiet Erki cautiously led his ear. I remember Lilichka, expecting her first child, once remarked: You are so soft, Platosha, even sometimes indecisive. Maybe it's because your name doesn't have the "R" sound. Why don't we give him a name that starts with a "r"?



And on April 18, a son was born. Take care of Rodion. Rodion is a hero, a heroic... What's not a hero? He's into extreme sports. In his studies he tried to achieve victories and achieved, more than once he was a prize-winner of various Olympiads. And in the incomplete 26 dared to go to a foreign country. His fascination with Spanish art and language and Spanish history helped his son achieve more than one goal. Now he is provided, successful, loved, satisfied with work, healthy. Thank God.

Resentment to parents and resentment... Me and Lilichka. Don't ask, "For what?" Ask, "What for?" 12 years ago. No, maybe a little more. In February 2011, we bought an apartment and gave Lyuba a birthday present. She turned 22. Jokes at the table: a girl with a dowry ...

That’s when Radik exploded: “All the savings were spent on Luba, everything for her.” Do you think I have to pay for housing myself? Your decision is unfair, no matter how you look. Either they are both equally or neither! You have given her more love and attention since childhood!

Everyone was offended. And this resentment sits, especially in Radica. We're all in front of each other. And if someone needs help, do not ask: we learned the situation, for example, one of us got sick – Lyuba will immediately come, help. Or her family's problem, we'll support it. He's on his own. We talked over Skype for over a decade. The main word is:normal...



Should I tell him how the eight-month-old Lyuba was nursed in 1989, when no guarantees were given and everything was in short supply? Yes, Radke has suddenly missed our attention. He will understand, will he feel, forgive? And isn’t the feeling of guilt in front of his son making me and Lilichka not tell Rhoda everything: why does he have to worry too much?

And if we admit that those 500 euros supposedly for the holiday helped us to have time to pay off all the debts before the New Year, will he not be more offended? In the autumn, Lilichka had to have surgery urgently, they had to take it. How can I confess? As soon as I hear that I heard him talk this morning, he'll get angry, he'll charge you with espionage.



My father always gave my grandmother a third of his salary: she could not earn a pension because, as a member of the family of the “enemy of the people” shot in 1937, she spent 10 years in a camp somewhere in Kazakhstan. I came out disabled. Dad was happy to help his mother. And she couldn't leave him anything. Nothing but love...

The phone in my chest pocket shook. Erki looked at the owner with expectation.
- Yes, Lil, we'll be right back. A couple of laps in the park and we're home.



Plato turned to the song: “What can we do to make it really good, eh, buddy?” But Erki has already been a shuttle among the kalina and lilac bushes... What about Platon Olegovich?