Long Vacation (2) 悠長假期(二)

Reminiscence of my childhood summer vacation always embraces me with sheer joyfulness! On the occasions, we cycled to the Stadium or went ice skating with my schoolmates. Roller-skates have not even existed by that time! They were only the four wheels ones. Apart from the inconvenience it brought, we also skated along at my mate’s corridor near her home. Since we were beginners, we made a lot of noises while we were skating and stumbling on the side down the doors of every house. The entire corridor was completely echoed and mingled with our laughter and howling. Due to this intruding noise, the neighbourhoods all opened their doors to see what on earth was going on. Not long afterwards, there was an old woman who couldn’t stand it anymore and eventually exerted her ultimate trick – released her vicious dogs!

Intensely chased by the sturdy dogs with their drooling mouths, not only did I skated and taped like flying, I also could go on the stairs with those skaters! This was how I learnt skating! Although I was grown under restrictions by my family, I have always believed in a free and relaxing summer vacation, or else it shouldn’t be termed as a summer vacation. Therefore, I used to come up with different ideas to ‘bail’ me out to play. Every time before I went out, I would hang the telephone over, I would go home when I finished off and would phone my father, ‘Did you call me? I was chatting with my schoolmates (Thank goodness there wasn’t any “call waiting” function yet!). This brilliant idea of mine, had never failed to work! But after using this method quite frequently, my dad had suspected me. I knew my own personality. If such ruse was revealed by dad, I would be in big trouble… (In Chinese, it can be depicted as "big buck", meaning the trouble is as big as the buck/ wok) Hence I stopped doing that again. And dad did not keep ‘tracing’ me of it. All my summer vacations memories were beautiful!

回憶起兒時的暑假實在是快樂極了！一時到球場踏單車，一時跟同學一齊學溜冰，當年還沒有滚軸溜冰鞋，只是四輪的鞋，而且還要在同學家門外的走廊踏，因為我們都是初學，一邊踏就一邊跌，繼而每家每户的門也拍過，笑聲叫聲響遍整條走廊，師奶亞伯都開門查看，終於有個亞姆忍無可忍，使出她的絕招--------放狗..........，被那隻大狼狗追到"行行聲"，不單只踏得像飛一般，而且還會上樓梯，我就是這樣學識"滚軸溜冰"的了！

雖然自小家教都很嚴，但暑假要過得自由自在，才算是暑假，所似我一定有辦法走出街玩。每次我出門前便會掛起電話，當我玩完回家後，便會致電爸爸：「你有無打電話給我，我剛才和同學講電話(興幸當年還未有call waiting)。」這一招利害，從未試過失手，可惜用得多都被爸爸懷疑，自己知自己事，如被爸爸識穿就"大鑊"，從此便洗手不幹，爸爸也沒有追查下去，我所有暑假的回憶都是美好的！