The Old Ones
Mr. and Mrs. Ong celebrated the jubilee of their wedding - sixty five years of wedding - simply last year and invited the full block. All folks visited the party as a result of are they're a desirable couple and are the elders in our block. They apprehend everybody and everybody is aware of them. At the party, contrary to what everybody expected - however not in any respect shocking to anyone - the Ongs had employed a pop band. There have been no long boring speeches and therefore the Ongs saw thereto that everybody simply enjoyed themselves.
The Ongs are a cheerful couple. people that are staying within the block from before i used to be born say that they had ne'er detected the couple quarreling a minimum of not aloud for anyone else to listen to. They perpetually eat along and are perpetually along. Remarkably enough, though 'they're in their eighties, they're active for his or her age. they need alert minds and observe martial art along each morning. They come to life early within the morning and perambulate a click to the park, do their martial art exercises and so select breakfast along. By the time they end all their morning activities, it's concerning nine o'clock. quickly when they are available home, Mrs. Ong begins to cook lunch. They have lunch at concerning one o'clock and so they begin their visits to their neighbors.
The couple have just one activity they like to do: to go to folks and check with them. So, since there are ninety families in our block and a great deal additional folks that the Ongs apprehend in different blocks, Mr. and Mrs. Ong are ne'er in need of folks to go to. Moreover, they're such a sunny couple that they're welcome altogether our homes. As they sit within the sitting rooms of the flats within the block, the recent couple typically provide recommendation on however the neighbors issues will be resolved. thanks to their recommendation, a number of marriages are saved.
often they additionally become involved with counsel ling the members of the younger generation. Quite contrary to expectations the Ongs realize it straightforward to cross the generation boundary and check with the younger set. Teenagers of the community will simply relate to the Ongs and take their recommendation. actually the Ongs generally check with the oldsters of the teenagers on the way to guide them instead of try and keep them as kids. Not a number of teenagers have confided their issues to the Ongs so the recent couple has suggested them and, very often, spoken to their folks on the teenager's behalf.
we have a tendency to wont to be a bit at a loss that the Ongs didn't appear to own any relatives. Once one in every of the neighbors had asked Mr. About their kids. Tears had returned to the recent man's eyes as he recalled that each one of his kids have emigrated. They never even wrote any longer. actually the recent couple don't skills several grandchildren they need. Seeing that this was such a painful subject there's a general agreement among everybody that the topic ought to ne'er be raised once more. In the meantime the Songs ar happy to seem upon the adults within the block as their kids and every one the younger members as their grandchildren. Several folks have usually wanted that out own folks were additional just like the Ongs.
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