今日のお昼はホットドック🌭
ホットドックと言えば思い出すのが、生まれ育った日本橋浜町の家のすぐ近くにある公園に来ていた小さな車のホットドック屋さん🌭
車の中ではいつでもお兄さんがラジオ📻の株式市況を真剣に聞いては何かを書き取っていました
注文をすると、カレー粉で炒めたキャベツとウィンナーをパンに挟んで、オーブントースターの中へ
ホットドックが出来上がるまでの間、お兄さんはしばしの間、ノートにグラフ📈📉📊をつけ始めます
ラジオ📻から流れてくる情報とノートにつけているグラフ📈📉📊がなんのことやら分からない小さな僕に丁寧に株式市況の説明をしてくれました
「株って儲かるの？」と僕
「あんまり儲からないね〜」
とお兄さん
トースターの「チン」🛎と言う音を合図に、熱々
のホットドック🌭を取り出して、紙袋に入れて手渡してくれます
ケチャップまみれになって齧り付くホットドック🌭は美味しくて、よく買いに行ったものです
でもある日突然、お兄さんとその小さな車は公園から姿を消しました
高度成長期📈だった当時、ランチ時になると兜町が近い我が家の周りには、証券マンがたくさん
みんな夢を見ていました
子ども心にもしかして株で大儲け📈して大富豪
になっちゃったのかなぁなんて、大人の世界を垣間見たような気がしたものです
門之助🤞
As I munched a hotdog for lunch today, I recalled of a small food truck selling hotdogs in a park near my house in Nihonbashi Hamacho when I was a child.
A young man would often listen to a radio seriously and write down something in the car.
And he would start stirring cabbage with curry powder and put it in a hotdog bun with sausages.
Then to an oven.
While he was heating up the hotdog, he would begin to make a graph on his notebook.
Not knowing what the information coming from radio was and the graph he was making were, I once asked him what they were.
Then he explained about stock market condition he was listening and the graph to me respectfully.
When I asked him if he made a lot of money, he said, “Not really.”
He took out the hotdog from the oven when the oven rang and put it in a paper bag.
The hotdog I ate with ketchup all over was so yummy and I would go and get one often.
But the food truck and the young man disappeared from the park suddenly without any notice.
He never came back.
During the period of rapid growth, the place where I was born and grown up was close to Kabutocho, a Wall Street of Japan and lots of stock traders having lunch there.
Every one was dreaming about the bright future.
I was imagining maybe he could make a killing in the stock market in the imaginary world of adult.