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The Pub 01
酒吧 01
I worked in my local pub and over the weekends and some times during the week I would stay over there with the other bar manager. We shared a room. It wasn't strange to us to hear things at night. Sometimes the juke box would come on; sometimes you could hear voices and laughter coming from the bar. I used to like hearing that, as if those people who had really enjoyed coming to the pub still liked to pop in for a late drink!
Every morning, no matter how much you had scrubbed and polished the bar top the night before, you would find three water marks, as if the landlord and two regulars had stayed and had a drink together. Then other things started happening.
When I was in the bathroom there would be knocks on the door. I would call out but get no answer, and sometimes find there had been no one upstairs but me. I would hear running footsteps and a child's laughter. The sash window in the room I stayed in would never close fully and condensation used to build up on my full length mirror. In the morning you could see two small hand prints at the bottom of the mirror. Again, these occurrences didn't bother me; in fact it was quite comforting.
我和朋友在本地開(kāi)了家酒吧,周末的時(shí)候,并和朋友一起住在酒吧里,偶爾工作日也會(huì)住在那兒。我倆共用一個(gè)房間,晚上聽(tīng)到動(dòng)靜對(duì)我們來(lái)說(shuō)并不是什么新鮮事。有時(shí)候是唱片點(diǎn)唱機(jī),有時(shí)是從酒吧傳來(lái)的談笑聲。我曾經(jīng)是很喜歡聽(tīng)到這種聲音的,就像那些非常喜歡泡吧的人大晚上也要來(lái)喝一杯一樣。
不管我們頭天晚上是如何認(rèn)真仔細(xì)得擦洗吧臺(tái),第二天早上,總能在上面發(fā)現(xiàn)三個(gè)水印,看起來(lái)就像是酒吧老板和倆位老主顧呆到很晚,一起喝了酒似的。還有其他奇怪的事情發(fā)生。
我上洗手間時(shí),會(huì)聽(tīng)到敲門聲,但當(dāng)我大聲的問(wèn)是誰(shuí)時(shí),卻沒(méi)人回答。有幾次我從洗手間出來(lái),卻發(fā)現(xiàn)二樓只有我一個(gè)人。我還會(huì)聽(tīng)到人跑動(dòng)的腳步聲和一個(gè)小孩的笑聲。我房間的上下推拉窗總關(guān)不嚴(yán),所以夜里我的大穿衣鏡上會(huì)凝結(jié)水汽,第二天早上,就會(huì)在鏡子下方看到兩個(gè)小手印。這些事情并沒(méi)有讓我感到煩惱,實(shí)際上,我還覺(jué)得挺欣慰的。