\u23f1 ~3 min reading<\/p>\n\n\n
Ivan's bike broke down on Friday. On a walk. Ivan drove into a hole - a crunch, and the chain came off. Ivan tried to put it back on - his fingers were dirty with oil, the chain wouldn't obey, the rear wheel was spinning this way, that way.<\/p>\n\n
Dad looked and looked, then said quietly:<\/p>\n\n
"Let's take him to the master. This is not on his knee.".<\/p>\n\n
On Saturday they took the bike to a small workshop behind the newsagent. The mechanic was a man with a gray mustache and a blue apron. He turned the bike over, felt the chain, touched the brakes. He shook his head.<\/p>\n\n
"I need a new chain. And tighten the brakes. It'll be ready in a week.".<\/p>\n\n
\u201cA week?!\u201d Ivan almost sat down on the floor.<\/p>\n\n
The master smiled.<\/p>\n\n
"Yes, little man. A week. Because I do well, not quickly.".<\/p>\n\n
On the way home, Ivan walked silently next to his dad. It seemed to him that a week was like a whole summer. Without a bicycle. Without evening circling around the yard. Without morning trips to the park.<\/p>\n\n
"Dad. Can I do it earlier?"<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 No. He already said \u2014 in a week.<\/p>\n\n
"What if I ask?"<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 What if someone asks you to do something faster than you can do it?<\/p>\n\n
Ivan thought. He remembered how his mother had asked him to make the bed yesterday, and then said, "Not so fast, more carefully." He also didn't like being rushed then.<\/p>\n\n
"Then I guess we'll have to wait.".<\/p>\n\n
Dad nodded.<\/p>\n\n
Monday was tough. Ivan looked at the hook on the wall where his helmet usually hung. The hook was empty. He sighed and went to play with Lego.<\/p>\n\n
On Tuesday, my mother suggested that we go to the park on foot. At first, Ivan didn't want to \u2014 it would be boring without a bike. But he agreed. In the park, he found an acorn \u2014 a smooth one, in a brown cap. Then another one. Then he collected a whole pocketful. He came home with his hands full.<\/p>\n\n
On Wednesday, Dad said:<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 We have an old box of books in the attic. I've been wanting to take it apart for a long time. Can you help me?<\/p>\n\n
Ivan helped. He found his father's book from his childhood - about a young captain. He started reading. By evening he had read so much that his mother reminded him that it was time for dinner.<\/p>\n\n
On Thursday, my grandmother came to visit. She brought cherry pies. She and Ivan were sitting in the kitchen and she told me how she had a bicycle when she was a child\u2014an old, heavy one with no gears. How she used it to carry water from the well.<\/p>\n\n
On Friday, Ivan found a thousand-piece puzzle on the shelf that he had never put together. He sat down in the living room. He started from the corners.<\/p>\n\n
On Saturday morning, dad said:<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 Ivanka. Let's go get a bike.<\/p>\n\n
Ivan didn't even understand right away. A week has passed? Already?<\/p>\n\n
The bike stood in the workshop as if it were new. The chain was shiny. The brakes clicked clearly. The mechanic showed me how to lubricate it every month.<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 Try it.<\/p>\n\n
Ivan sat down. He pedaled. The bike rode smoothly, quietly \u2014 it didn't click or creak.<\/p>\n\n
"Oh. He's better than he was!"<\/p>\n\n
"Because it's been repaired now," the master winked.<\/p>\n\n
On the way home, Ivan pedaled and thought. Acorns in his pocket. The captain from his father's book. Grandma's cherry pies. Puzzles - he made a frame and started the sky. All this happened in a week. A week that at first seemed like an eternity.<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 Dad.<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 What, son?<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 Waiting is not empty. It is full.<\/p>\n\n
Dad smiled in the wind's face.<\/p>\n\n
\u2014 That's right.<\/p>\n\n\n
\ud83d\udca1 A week of waiting is not the end of the world.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n
Ivan's bicycle was waiting in the workshop. Ivan thought that a week was forever. But it turned out that waiting also hides a lot of interesting things.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":3316,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"class_list":["post-2410","istoriya","type-istoriya","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istoriya\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istoriya"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/istoriya"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}