貧乏暮らし/my poor life
梅雨のはしりだろうか?肌寒い。今日から3週間、小さなクラスサイズの授業が始まった。自己紹介として、ぼくはいかに貧乏生活をしているかを語った。まず、収入は社会科講座では最低だろう。なぜなら、副収入や妻からの収入はゼロだからだ。それで、交通費、食費、雑貨類、若干の書籍代合計で月6万円ほどで暮らさなければならない。もっとも大きい出費は、もちろん食品だ。ぼくは、百円ショップ、安売り王、中古品店の常連客だ。スーパーの食品売り場では、半分腐りかけたり、枯れて黄色くなったようないわゆる「見切り品」を買う。刺身が食べたいときはスーパーの閉店間際の23時ごろ行って、7割引のようなものを買ってきて翌日食べる。あたかもスーパーのゴミ箱を漁る乞食のような暮らしぶりだ。自然食品とか健康食品が広く流通することは望ましいことではあるが、ぼくにはそれらに手が出ないことが理解できるようになった。またお茶は自宅で煎れてさましてペットボトルを水筒のようにして持ち歩く。ぼくは、かつて自分は「不経済学者」だとジョークで自慢していた。しかし、今はまじめに「経済学者」だと思っている。Is it a sign of rainy season? It is rather chilly. The lesson of small class size began from today for three weeks. As self-introduction, I told what I would live a poor life. First, my income may be the minimum in a social-studies department. It is because a subincome and the income from a wife are zero. Then, I have to live about 60,000 yen a month by transportation expenses, food expenses, miscellaneous goods, and some books as sum total. Of course, the largest expenses are food. I am the regular customer of a 100 yen shop, a bargain sale king, and a used article store. On the food floor of a supermarket, something rotted by the half or something of the so-called "bargain" which withers and became yellow are bought by me. I carry out around 23:00 just before a supermarket's closing when I want to eat sliced raw fish, buys it like 70% discount, and I eat it on the next day. I am living a beggar-like life scavenging for the garbage can of a supermarket. Although it is desirable that a natural food and health food circulate widely, I become able to understand that a hand did not appear in them. I was proud that I was an "uneconomical scholar" as joke once. However, I think that it is an "economist" seriously now.