Day 56 of 125

Day 56: The Chemistry Lab Window

At a school reunion in Omsk twenty-five years after graduation, two former classmates run into each other, and a third soon joins them.

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Dialogue

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  1. A

    Простите, мы знакомы? Лицо вроде знакомое, а вспомнить не могу... Погоди. Бизон?!

    Sorry, do we know each other? Your face looks familiar, but I can't place it... Hang on. Bison?!

  2. B

    Бизоном меня лет двадцать никто не называл. А ты... Шпала? Ты же в лётное поступал?

    Nobody's called me Bison for about twenty years. And you're... Beanpole? Didn't you go to flight school?

  3. A

    Поступил, отучился, теперь командир экипажа. А ты, говорят, большим бизнесменом стал?

    Got in, graduated, and now I'm a captain. And they say you've become a big businessman?

  4. B

    Да какое там, стройматериалы. Слушай, а помнишь, как ты в десятом классе окно в кабинете химии разбил? Нас всех потом к завучу таскали.

    Big, my foot, building materials. Listen, remember how you smashed the chemistry lab window in tenth grade? Afterwards they dragged us all to the deputy head.

  5. A

    Я?! Ты путаешь. Я прекрасно помню, как ты на большой перемене гонял мяч под окнами, а потом раздался звон.

    Me?! You've got it mixed up. I remember perfectly well how you were kicking a ball about under the windows at long break, and then there was a crash.

  6. B

    Не гони, Шпала. Мяч был твой, а я в девяносто девятом мячами не интересовался, я на рынке кассетами приторговывал.

    Don't give me that, Beanpole. The ball was yours, and in ninety-nine I wasn't into balls at all, I was doing a bit of trade in cassettes at the market.

  7. C

    Мужики, вы что, опять про окно? Двадцать пять лет прошло, а вы всё никак не угомонитесь.

    Guys, are you on about the window again? Twenty-five years have gone by, and you still can't let it go.

  8. A

    Профессор! Вот ты нас и рассудишь, ты же всегда всё видел. Скажи ему, кто разбил.

    Professor! You can settle it, you always saw everything. Tell him who broke it.

  9. C

    Скажу, раз уж такой повод. Разбил я: лез через окно за классным журналом, чтобы подправить себе двойку по химии.

    I will, seeing as it's the occasion. I broke it: I was climbing in through the window for the class register, to fix my own bad mark in chemistry.

  10. B

    Ты?! Профессор, отличник, краса и гордость школы? Быть не может!

    You?! The Professor, the straight-A student, the pride and joy of the school? No way!

  11. C

    Может. Теперь я сам веду химию в этом кабинете. Журнал, правда, электронный, но пароль я на всякий случай никому не говорю.

    Yes way. Now I teach chemistry in that very room myself. The register's electronic these days, true, but I don't tell anyone the password, just in case.

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