The unsuccessful protege

"Girl, do you want to work in the power industry? I can arrange you! You really liked me. "It was with this phrase that this bald-headed man, a tall middle-aged man, came to me. I was sitting on the route, my nose in the magazine, wondering what else to wear on my colleague's birthday tomorrow, was very tired and lost in thought. Yes, and I was not tuned to the conversation. But the latter, although he did not receive any reply, did not stop.

I looked up and in that prick I recognized my neighbor on Tolik's porch. As it turned out, he did, indeed, hold some managerial position in the electric power industry. Although I did not know him personally, I always had an idea of ​​him as a decent person. At home, his wife and three children were waiting for him. To my surprise there was no limit.

Arriving, she told me about this incident to my grandmother, from whom I learned that Tolya's fate did not spoil from infancy, his father brought up, the mother left him immediately after birth in the hospital, finding his birth burdensome for her, and she ran off with her lover somewhere in the north. So never in life Tolik his own mother and did not see. His father did not spend a lot of time in bachelors, he immediately married an early widowed colleague of work. A newly-wedded stepmother, in order to please her husband, tried to replace the mother in particular with people. Anatoly grew up, graduated from the military academy, got married, but left the army in the hungry dashing 90s.

But let us return to that incident. Anatoly and so relentlessly annoyed me, toli without recognizing me, toli simply not understanding. "I'll arrange for you. You will work in ectroenergetics and receive a lot. You have enough for both life and leisure and a car buy. "And it was not at all embarrassing that I shook my head in disagreement. Anatoly persistently did not give up. All the way he scribbled like a machine gun, and when I got out of the auto line, he followed me understandably. And it does not matter that I ignored him. To lag behind his successors, I went to the supermarket and got lost among the people. I do not like unnecessary problems.

Then somehow after some time, forgetting about this fellow traveler, he met him in the family circle, his wife-boring-looking slightly squint-eyed woman, who obviously clogged herself, who, by the way, held the position of a financial director in a firm and three children. I barely kept a sneer at the sight of Tolyan. And his wife, in turn, saw me saying "thank you very much, you are so decent and did not fuck up with him." Probably someone told her about it. Apparently, not all refused to be protested in the face of this grief of the family man.