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Dad's Voice: Just a Sand Day | Israel today

2020-05-16T04:49:57.047Z


| You sat downOddi returned from the garden with thousands of sand grains in his shoes, and all I wanted was to kneel and kiss them, because they represented me for six whole hours where the children were staying elsewhere Figure // Ze'ev Engelmayer Oddi returned from his first day in kindergarten. He sat down in the middle of the living room, panting heavily, like a man who had just signed a mortgage, and b...


Oddi returned from the garden with thousands of sand grains in his shoes, and all I wanted was to kneel and kiss them, because they represented me for six whole hours where the children were staying elsewhere

  • Figure // Ze'ev Engelmayer

Oddi returned from his first day in kindergarten. He sat down in the middle of the living room, panting heavily, like a man who had just signed a mortgage, and bent over to take off his shoes.

As soon as the first shoe came down, thousands of grains of sand flew into them for a long time until they scattered all over the living room. He looked at me worriedly, but at that moment all I wanted to do was kneel on the floor, like a man who came to Israel on the magic carpet, and kiss every grain and grain, because they represented me for six whole hours where my children were staying elsewhere.

Yes, as you understand, I was not one of those parents who was debating whether to send their children to kindergarten. While I was not most comfortable giving a kindergarten teacher a little more spoiled than I received two months ago, but even so she couldn't get close to me less than two meters, so somehow I managed to overcome the embarrassment. Other parents, on the other hand, spoke on Sunday that "we confuse our children" and that "we will not allow them to be experienced." By Monday, half of them had already sent their children to kindergarten. Probably after six hours the experiment was over for them. 

In the kindergarten wetsup group, I could learn about the very meaningful opinions parents have about all sorts of things. It is said that where there are two Jews - there are three opinions, but it turns out that every Jewish parent is entitled to two more opinions for each child under 18. There is no other way to explain the crazy inflationary inflation that everyone in this particular Wetsap group has.

I was unable to address all of these very significant opinions, until on Lag Ba'Omer evening, one of the mothers tried to convince the other parents not to bring their children to kindergarten on Christmas Day. True, the general behavior in front of us was awkward, and the message that there would be assistance was received only after eight. is also true that one of the assistants is someone children knew only two days before the beginning of the closure. but hell, what hurts other parents believe that their children will be fine, and of time, they prefer to go to work, relax at home, or anything else you're probably too good for him?

I hinted her Gently in the details, as much as you can do such gently, to do what she wants with the child Her, but you try not to interfere with her, because even so, our return to routine is still quite sputtering. That is to say, but the main thing is that my children got twice the green), and study on regular days in kindergarten, except for Tuesdays and Fridays, which will of course be in rotation, and all this when there is still no lunch. 

The reviewer

I went to the nearby outdoor mall to stock up on some things we couldn't buy in the last two months. A big, clumsy man, about 55, grabbed me by the escalator. "It's a poll," he said. "It's important for you to attend."

"No, thank you," I said.

He waved a stack of clipped pages. "This determines the percentage of exposure of all products in Israel," he said. "The entire Israeli consumer index." 

"I'm not interested".

He looked at me. It was a very hot day and his mask was wet. We stared at each other in silence. "You look intelligent to me," he said at last. "You might find it interesting."

"All those pages you hold is the questionnaire?"

"Yes".

"Today everything is done online."

He drew on the narrow opening that opened. "You don't have to fill it now, fill in your free time. Take your time, I'll contact you in the next few days. It's important to me that these questionnaires fill serious people."

"Thanks, I'm really not interested."

"You can also get a gift, Disk On Key."

Agreed. His war for my humble participation captivated my heart. If he had fought the life wars like that, he probably wouldn't have to stand in the sun right now in the middle of an outdoor mall, begging him to fill in some stupid questionnaire. 

He let me sign a consent page to participate in the questionnaire. I signed, and then he pasted a barcode on the back of the page and handed me a thick booklet he took out of his bag. Who walks around with all this stuff today? 

"Beauty," he said, "I can finish now. I parked right across the road. And it was a pretty nice total to walk, too. There's an interesting mix here between old and new buildings."

"I don't know, I didn't notice."

"Yes, really. You know, I'm a Technion graduate, '91, an architecture major."

"It's an interesting profession."

"Yes".

He added no explanation to what he was doing at this outdoor mall, 30 years after the title, with a stack of questionnaires and vague promises about a gift. We talked some more, had a lot of solid opinions on how to deal with the corona, some of it a little ripped off ("the virus can haunt you in the air"), and it seemed like he waited a long time for someone to listen. After a few minutes of conversation, he started to walk away towards his vehicle. 

It seemed to me that I had already met some of these people before. People who are not timed with the pulse of the world, people who know a lot and do little. He slowly entered his battered pickup.

That was exactly a week ago. In the meantime, I didn't fill out the questionnaires, and he didn't call. Maybe some virus caught him in the air.

shishabat@israelhayom.co.il

Source: israelhayom

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