Ленивый Боб

Once upon a time in one little English town there lived a young man called the Lazy Bob. He lived in a small house with a leaking roof that nobody could mend. He lived with his mother who worked and worked from morning till late night in order to buy food and pay the bills. Bob did not work. He played and played computer games sitting in his armchair, spending his days and nights in front of his computer. Bob had never left his place. He did not even know what he needed to do that for. He had been playing computer games the whole day and when he got hungry he ordered take-away food or pizza paying by his mother’s credit card. But once Bob’s mother became so exhausted of working long hours and taking responsibility for her son that she took her credit card back and stopped paying for the Internet.

«Go away, live on your own or stay here but get a job» said his mother.

What is more, having said that she turned on parents’ control on Bob’s mobile phone in order to make sure he would not play computer games when she was not in.

The Lazy Bob was very upset with that situation. He did not want to work at all. However, he loved his mother, so the next day in the morning he left his place for searching for a job.

Bob got a job. At first, he did not find it hard. It seemed to be simple. He got a job as a cleaner in a shop. He was given a bucket and a mop and he was told to wash the floor. But he had never seen the things and he had never washed the floor yet. In the computer virtual world the things started to act when you just pressed them. The young man looked and looked at the mop and the bucket, felt them, pressed them from different sides, but nothing happened. He was not able to do his job. In the evening he was fired.

He returned home feeling very upset and told his mother about his day. «How silly you are» said his mother.

«You had to pour some water into the bucket, put the mop into it to make it wet well and then to rub the floor with it».

«I see», said Bob.

«Now I know how to work and next time I will try to do my best», said Bob.

The next day Bob looked for a job again. He was lucky he got a job in a restaurant «Five Guys». He had to wash the dishes. That time he knew exactly what «washing» meant.

Bob took a bucket, put the dishes in it, poured some water, But at the moment he was going to put the mop into the bucket to wash the dishes the owner fired him.

«Mother, I had been fired again. Even faster than yesterday, the owner of the restaurant called me the fool. I did what you had told me and how I was taught by you!» said Bob.

Bob could not stop complaining in the evening. «You had to fill the sink with water and put the dishes there, take a sponge, a washing liquid «Fairy» and rub the dishes well» said his mother.

On the third day Bob kept trying looking for a job. But in a small English town there was only one shop and one restaurant «Five Guys». What could he do?

However, he was lucky again. His mother’s friends had to be away the whole day and they could not take their child with them. So he got a job as a baby sitter. At first, it went well. The child did everything on his own, rolled on the ground, bathed in puddles, drew on the wall paper at home, made pictures of plasticine on the sofa. He did all things by himself. He drank juice and even served Bobby. They spilled a little bit but it was not spoilt much in such a mess. The house was messy and untidy. There were dirty spots and puddles everywhere. In the evening, before going to bed the child said to Bob.

«Hey, Bob, listen, my mom usually washes me before I go to bed and today it seems to me I need it more than usual. It is time to have a bath», said the child.

«Ok», said Bob.

He was happy. He could do it well. His mother had already taught him. He put the child into the sink, poured water and started to make foam with the help of «Fairy». At that moment the child’s parents came back home, saw the child sitting in the sink Bob was fired and he did not make a penny for his job on that day.