Lisko’s American Life

Lisko's daily necessities are almost exhausted, and he plans to go to the supermarket in the town to buy some.

Driving the pickup truck on the road, Lisko listened to the music and shook his body.

“Look' if you had one shot' one opportunity

Hey! if you have a chance

To seize everything you ever wanted…One moment

Just a split second to grab everything you want

Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Will you hold on tight, or just let it slip away?

His palms are sweaty' knees weak' arms are heavy

His arms are heavy, his knees are weak, his palms are sweaty

There's vomit on his sweater already' mom's spaghetti

Mom's spaghetti is already spit on the sweater

He's nervous' but on the surface he looks calm and ready

he was nervous but he acted calm

To drop bombs' but he keeps on forgetting

Ready to blow the crowd off but keep forgetting

What he wrote down' the whole crowd goes so loud

The crowd who wrote the lyrics he wrote started booing

He opens his mouth' but the words won't out

He opened his mouth and couldn't even utter a single word.

He's chokin' how everybody's jokin' now

He's "dumb" and everyone's laughing at him

The clock's run out' time's up over' bloah!

It's time for the show to end! Σ(°△°|||)︴

Snap back to reality' Oh there goes gravity

Being beaten back to reality, feet are filled with lead

Oh' there goes Rabbit' he choked

oh! Rabbit is dumb

He's so mad but he won't give up that Easy?

He was ashamed but he didn't give up easily

Is he? No”

Listening to the dynamic rap, Lisko couldn't help stepping on the accelerator, the speed of the car accelerated, and the fast passing wind blew Lisko's hair.

Lisko held the steering wheel with one hand, and couldn't help stretching his hand out of the window. He remembered a movie he watched in his previous life, and said that he could feel a special feeling when he held his hand outside the car window.

The wind was blowing on his palms, and Lisko felt this special feeling.

"Woohoo~" Lisko groaned strangely, and burst out laughing.

The town was not far away, and Lisko quickly arrived at the destination under the accelerated driving. He parked the car and entered the supermarket.

"Hey, Li." The cashier at the door greeted Lisko.

This is a girl, her name is Manda, the eldest daughter of the ranch owner Les, who works odd jobs in a supermarket.

Generally speaking, a big rancher like Les is worth a lot of money. As his eldest daughter, she shouldn't have to do odd jobs to earn pocket money.

This is the way of education in the United States. No matter how rich the parents are, the children will still do other things to earn money. First, they can use their wages to buy things they like, and they can buy birthday gifts for family members. Parents deliberately cultivate their children's abilities, get in touch with society early, and understand the hardships of making money.

There are many ways to make money like this, such as cleaning other people's lawns, delivering newspapers and milk, and some are still working as waiters in cafes and restaurants, and as oil workers at gas stations. University admissions also look for qualifications in this area.

The reason why Lisko knew Manda was because he had bought the small biscuits she made by herself many times, and Manda was a very interesting person. Lisko asked her curiously before, what is the purpose of making money like crazy?

"It's for campaigning for mayor in the future." Manda's face was full of seriousness,

"Why?" Lisko wondered, how could any girl want to be the mayor.

"In this way, no one in the town can tell me what to do with my life," she said.

And she also made a lot of efforts for this. She made a handmade campaign card and asked her younger brother to help her distribute the campaign leaflets, with her campaign slogan printed on them, "Anyway, it's a random election, why not vote for Manda. "

The residents of the small town also supported her very much, but due to age restrictions, she could not participate in the election. She was only fifteen years old.

Not discouraged, she plans to run for election as soon as she becomes an adult. Everyone has great tolerance for children, and everyone calls her the mayor of the town seriously, including the current mayor, Dai Lisi, who also regards her as their successor. .

She also seriously made her plan after taking office. The first thing she did was to establish the fire brigade.

There used to be a fire brigade in the town of Garrison, but there was nothing wrong with it all year round, so it was voted off by short-sighted town residents. The government had no choice but to move the fire brigade to Great Schenk, so Garrison has no fire brigade now. firefighting.

However, wildfires have been raging in recent years, so the residents of the town are a little worried. Garrison is backed by the Rocky Mountains. Although no wildfires have occurred so far, this is a high-risk area. The financial crisis in the town is not enough to rebuild Firefighters, this matter has been shelved.

"Hey, Mayor Manda." Lisko beckoned, took the basket and went to pick out the items.

The supermarket in the small town is not too small, and Lisko has everything he needs to buy here.

"toilet paper,

drinks,

Toiletries,

And some snacks. "

According to the list he wrote at home, Lisko bought them one by one. Like him, he basically doesn’t need to buy agricultural and sideline food. He has meat and vegetables at home. Lisko also saw packaged vegetables with his own label on the vegetable counter. .

Carrying the basket to checkout, he arrived soon, because today is not a well-known discount day, so not many people come to the supermarket to buy.

American aunts of Maggie’s age are the same as Chinese ones. They always choose the special discount days of supermarkets when they buy things, and buy items that are about to expire at a very low price, such as milk, bread, vegetables and meat. This also clears up the inventory of the merchants and allows them to buy food at a much lower price than usual. This is how many poor families live.

Li Scott deliberately chose the toll channel of Manda.

"Hey, Manda, haven't you raised enough campaign funds yet?" Lisko fished out his wallet.

"Hey, don't mention it, I played baseball last month and broke the window of my neighbor's car, and I lost a lot of money." Manda complained, but the movements of her men were still very quick. This is also her part-time job. Reason for popularity.

Lisko smiled and her little face was full of money fans.

"Okay, Li, the total is fifty-seven dollars." Manda scanned the code and looked at the number displayed on the cash register.

Lisko took out a 100 Franklin card and handed it to her, and she casually entered the amount of money received on the cash register.

When I was in China, I always heard that Americans were poor in mathematics. Lisko never had a good concept. It was not until I lived here that I realized that Americans were not very bad in mathematics, but very poor.

Even though Manda is a student now, and has already entered junior high school at the age of twelve, she still can't figure out how much money Lisko needs to get back after subtracting fifty-seven dollars from one hundred dollars. The appearance of the cash register has saved many cash registers. Otherwise, the supermarket's accounts must suffer heavy losses. The current cash register enters the amount of money collected, and it will automatically display the amount that needs to be recovered.

Lisko bid farewell to the supermarket and put the purchased things into the back of the pickup. This is why Lisko likes to drive this on weekdays. Generally, the things you buy can be placed at will, and there is a lot of space. Labor is very expensive in the United States. , If you buy a lot of things and want the supermarket to deliver them to your door, then you really need to pay another sum of money.