Early Spring Meeting

(Baonghean) - Wow! There are so many anniversaries this year. All of them only happen once every 30, 40, 50 years. January is a long month with plenty of time to celebrate.

The wife is responsible for the housework. You shouldn't rush in and do it for her, leaving her unemployed. The boss is responsible for the office work. At the beginning of the year, the boss is also busy putting on a tie and suit to attend many important anniversaries in and out of the industry, for superiors and subordinates, even more than a lowly official like me.

First is the hometown meeting. Homeland is a bunch of sweet star fruit, if you don't go, you will lose your roots. From the province, the hometown comes to the district. After shaking hands and greeting each other at the commune, they invite each other to the neighborhood meeting. In accordance with the spirit of gender equality, men and women alike, the hometown meeting is extended to include in-laws, grandchildren, great-grandchildren...

Having a meeting is to contribute a little to have fun together.

Seeing fellow countrymen meeting in a noisy manner, fellow students also felt itchy. Immediately, school meetings, class meetings, and unit meetings were held continuously. From kindergartens to universities, research institutes, short-term and long-term training schools, all established school meeting organizing committees, announced on radio and newspapers inviting meetings to celebrate 60th, 30th, and sometimes even half-year anniversaries of traditional days.

As for comrades, those who once lived and died together, "digging mountains, sleeping in tunnels, eating rice balls in the rain" or "cutting through Truong Son to save the country", thanks to the commemorative movement, they met each other, happy and sad, unable to stop. During the anti-American war, I was a youth volunteer and transferred to dozens of units, now to be able to attend all of them is not easy.

But when we meet, we have to drag each other out to the bar to destroy things to make up for the hard days. Money is nothing compared to blood and bones.

To be honest, meeting and partying like that, how can I be productive while sitting at my desk? The smell of beer and wine still wafted in the room, the invitations were still pressing, I couldn't refuse:

I was wondering how to arrange my time when the phone rang:

- Hello! Are you Mr. Phuong? - a strange girl's voice.

- Yes, how do you know? I'm Minh Phuong, what's the matter?

- Lucky. So you have the same name as me. I am Tuyet Phuong, from Nghe An. We will sign up for the “Name Council”, buy the number 44 shirt to wear, to support me. What do you think?

Before I could think, a well-dressed girl walked in.

- Dad, where are you going? You stay home this morning, I have to go to the annual meeting.

- What meeting? I have so many meetings, I'm in a mess.

- Did you forget? We have a meeting with our Goat friends on the occasion of the Year of the Goat!

Quynh Tho