Put down the list and start over, not as hard as you think

List of Lives by Frederick Buckman

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Last time we talked about it, Mary unknowingly began to violate the list because of one accident after another. Then, under the soft and hard bubble of Vika, she became a football coach, although she knew nothing about football games.

Below, let's take a look at how Mary's football coaching path has gone down.



In order to become a competent football coach, Mary specially called the short-haired girl for help, and took the advice of the other party, preparing the roster and the notice. The notice needs to be signed by the children's parents to ensure that they are playing in a team with the permission of the parents.

Next, Mary learned a way to train everyone's physical fitness with the help of Sammy - idiot running back and forth, no matter how effective it is, her seriousness is still very impressive.

In one training, a child kicked the ball at the instigation of everyone to the "blind girl" who just passed, everyone called her bank, the football hit the bank's head impartially, and the bank was instantly angry.

If this had been the case, Mary would have reprimanded the children. But this time, she defended everyone like a woman in a wheelchair: "Bank, this is an accident, if they deliberately aim, they will definitely not kick you." 」 As a result, the children said that this time they were aiming.

Mary, a little cramped and a little happy, leaned over to the bank and said, "That's great!" They never hit a target, and it was a landmark victory. Of course, I'm not saying that it's great to kick you, but I'm saying that they hit the target and it's an improvement. ”

Her justification made the bank swear and leave. The progress of the children made Mary feel that the various profanities of the bank were all artifacts and superb language innovations.

In the evening, Mary was ready to go home after washing the children's clothes at the recreation center, but in the distance she saw a man waiting in front of the bus stop. When I looked closer, I realized that it was a pirate. It turned out that she had asked the children to have their parents sign the notice, and the pirate wanted to complete the task to continue playing football, while the pirate's father, was in prison. So if he wanted to get his dad's signature, he had to go to jail. But the pirate's mother works in the hospital and is very busy, and there is no way to accompany the pirate to visit the prison.

When the pirates saw Mary, they wanted to invite Her to accompany him so that he would feel better. Mary could not have dreamed that she would take the bus to the prison in the middle of the night, knowing that in her mind, civilized people who live a normal life have no habit of visiting prison.

Since it was not the time to visit, Mary and the pirate could not see the pirate's father at all, but thanks to Sven's help, the pirate successfully got the father's signature, and there were two eye-catching big words "Love You" next to the father's name.

Sven first sent the pirate home, and then while sending Mary, he told her the story of the pirate, saying that the pirate's father was arrested for tax evasion, but this does not mean that the pirate is also a bad boy.

Mary thought of Sammy because of the phrase "not a bad boy," and in her opinion, Sammy wasn't a bad boy either. Although Sami took on the responsibility of taking care of her younger siblings because of family troubles, gave up the opportunity to be a good player, and made many mistakes with madmen, it was hard for Mary to imagine what a small asshole with a neatly arranged cutlery drawer could be.

Along the way, Sven and Mary had a good conversation, and the two of them talked about the past. Sven was married, but his wife did not like the Borg and left, but Sven firmly believed that the Borg had its own unique beauty, and not everyone could see the beauty of the Borg, because not everyone was the one who was related.

Since these days, Mary has also deeply felt the beauty of the Borg, has the Borg changed? No, it was still so dirty, the Borg were still so casual, and it was Mary's heart that changed. So Sven was a little nervous and wanted to send her a date invitation, but because everything was so sudden, Mary didn't know how to be good, although she was actually expecting Sven to say something, but in the end she escaped back to the rental house without saying anything.

This night, Mary thought a lot about everything about Sven, and she hesitated whether she should accept the invitation or not, and hardly slept. At dawn, she couldn't wait to call the short-haired girl and hide her panic by saying something casually.

Later, she planned to go to the entertainment center to find something to do to distract her attention, and when she went downstairs, she saw the bank drinking soup in the kitchen. On the wall behind the bank was a picture of the bank and her father, which made Mary think that the bank might have been a footballer, so she wanted to ask her about some ways to train football.

But the bank avoided the topic and did not give Mary any substantive advice, but only muttered: "That team can't play football at all, no matter how you teach!" ”

Mary realized that she might have said something that others didn't want to hear, and left the house without continuing the conversation.

Mary needed something to do, so she decided to put together the unassembled IKEA she had brought with her when she first arrived at Borg. She hadn't assembled or repaired anything in decades, and in a similar situation she could just shout Kent. This time, she chose to do it herself, not letting anyone help.

When Mary rested for a while and was getting ready to go out, she saw the pirate's mother at the door. She stuffed her with a bottle of Fickle and said that she was very grateful to Mary, and she wanted Mary to know that the Borg were not all sinking, and that they never gave up getting better.

After arriving at the training ground for basic training, Mary went to consult Sami again, and this time, Sami told Mary a story:

In the Champions League final ten years ago, AC Milan had already led 3-0 in the first half, but was equalized by Liverpool, who did not accept defeat. Never in the history of any football final has there been a situation where Liverpool lost so badly in the first half. What's even more incredible is that in the end, Liverpool actually won ac Milan in extra time, which made everyone feel excited. It also made many of the people who supported Liverpool believe that no matter what happened, they could get the results back.

And at Borg, a lot of people like Liverpool. This not only subconsciously changed Mary's thinking about the Borg, but also gave Mary a huge impact.

Even when the children accidentally kicked the football to her feet, she kicked it out with all her might.

When Sven sent her home again this time, she implicitly expressed her willingness to accept the invitation: "I'll have dinner at six." ”