毎日の買い物で、レジでのやり取りは楽しい

　庭では四季の移り変わりが見て取れます。写真は「源平枝垂れ」で、春には紅白二色に咲き分ける花桃です。ご覧の通り、すべての葉が落葉し、荒涼とした初冬の姿になってます。このため、蛇のようにくねった幹が目立ちます。私はこれから春までじっと我慢し、４ヶ月後の満開を夢見て、適度な水遣り、枝をそろえる剪定などします。

　ところで、一人暮らしでも、有難いことに窓を開けたままにしなければ室内は余り汚れず、掃除は比較的楽です。一方、健康維持のため三度三度の食事には栄養バランスの観点からしっかり準備します。基本的に人間とは、台所に立って段取りすることが生きる機能を失わせないと感じてます。

　「男子、厨房に入るべからず」などと昔気質の思想は通用しません。死んでしまいます。人間は男であろうと、女であろうと基本的には一人で生きていかなければなりません。つまり、食事、洗濯、掃除ができないと生活が送れません。その前に買いだめせず、毎日、スーバーで新鮮な食材、健康に良い食材探しです。最近はピリ辛のラッキョウが美味しくてたまりません。

　毎日スーパーに行くため、レジの女性とは顔なじみであり、周囲に失礼がない程度に必ず一言会話し、これが私の唯一の楽しみになってます。以前に、親しかったレジの女性が人事異動で他店へ行ってしまいました。しかし、１年ほどしたら戻って来たのでホッとし、私は「もう、どこへも行かないでね」と言ったら、周囲のレジがどっと笑いました。

Dear my overseas friends who are interested in cooking and great music

　In the garden, we can see the change of four seasons. The photo shows the bicolor peach named Genpeishidare in our tongue, a flowering peach tree that blooms red and white in spring. As you can see, all the leaves have fallen, leaving it in a desolate early winter state. This makes the snake-like trunk stands out. From now on, I will be patient until next spring, dreaming of full bloom in four months, and will water it moderately and prune the branches to make them balanced.

　By the way, even if I live alone, the room doesn't get very dirty as long as I don't leave the windows open, so cleaning is relatively easy. On the other hand, to stay healthy, I prepare three meals a day carefully from the perspective of nutritional balance. I feel that humans do not lose their ability to live by standing in the kitchen.

　The Japanese old-fashioned idea that "men should not enter the kitchen" does not apply for me. I will die. Humans, whether male or female, basically have to live alone. In other words, if I can't cook, wash, and clean, I can't live. Before that, I try not to stock up, and look for fresh, healthy ingredients at the supermarket every day. Lately, I've been really into the deliciousness of spicy pickled "Rakkyo" radishes.

　Because I go to the supermarket every day, I'm familiar with lady cashiers and always make a quick conversation with her without being rude to others, and this has become my only source of enjoyment. One time, a cashier I was close to was transferred to another supermarket. However, she returned after about a year, which was a relief to me, so that I told her, "Don't go anywhere again," which caused the other cashiers to burst out in laughter.

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