Senya and a table tennis. The story

Senya and a table tennis. The story.


Somewhere on the outskirts of the neighbourhood stood a tennis table.

Some residents from the Senya's yard went there and suddenly began to win.

Senya became interested in the situation and sent one of his friends there.

Senya's friend came up, looked at the players, said he was playing better, took away a racket and started playing himself. His game didn 't go well.

Senya could not tolerate such a turn of events and sent Sunya to analyze the situation.

Sunya stated that the net on the tennis table was pulled incorrectly, stopped the game, pushed the unsuccessful player in the back, and stated that negotiations were needed about the correctness of the net tension.

Negotiations began and ended with a fair decision - that the net should be pulled right. However, rivals on the game declared that it is not about the net, but about organization of the game.

The case was confused. There is a net, there is a decision that the net should be pulled correctly, and there is an opinion of rivals on the game that the game is incorrectly organized.

Sunya insisted on a pulling of the net in a correct way.

The tennis table has become a local attraction, waiting year after year for the net to be pulled right.

A life went forward, and on the site of the outskirts paved the road. What to do with the tennis table? Sunya offered a creative solution. Various kinds of advertising structures are placed along any road. Why not hang the table to the pillars and trees? He won 't interfere with anyone, and he 'll wait for the net to be pulled right.

The table was hanged up. People and cars moved unhindered, and the tennis table waited for the net would be pulled right.

There was an idea of a new negotiations about the situation with the tennis table.

The case threatened to get more and more confused.

Senya consulted his friends. They decided to prepare the announcement. To announce at the meeting of the Council on Local Self-Government  that until the net is pulled correctly, there will be no new negotiations.

What to do with this table? With the net? With the stubborn game rivals? With the idea of the new negotiations? All this resembled a ball of tangled threads.

They remembered Sunya with an unkind word, and decided to go play football... There is this view that football is better than the table tennis... If you think about unpleasant problems for a long time, the mood begins to ruin...


February 19, 2020 03:04


Translation from Russian into English: February 19, 2020 09:16.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский “Сеня и настольный теннис. Рассказ”.