In our community, there is a retired old gentleman who used to be the deputy of a certain bureau, but after retirement, everyone is still used to calling him "Zhao Ju", and he does not refuse it, and accepts this title quite well.
When he was not yet retired, we could barely see him, busy commuting to and from work. However, since his retirement, he seems to have found no reason to leave the community, and he and his daughter-in-law have been active in the community from morning to night, with the main areas of activity including the gate, the guard's room and the small square.
At first, he was the only one, but later his daughter-in-law joined the ranks of this "community", and the two rarely stayed in their own homes, even more diligent than the security guards of the community, often standing near the gate, and hardly going home.
He has a deep relationship with the property and the janitorial and knows every household in the community inside out. Even though our community is small and has only four buildings, they are able to learn more about each household, including family members, occupations, and so on.
Even if an outsider comes to find someone, as soon as he sees him, he will not only tell you which building and door that person lives in, but also provide some additional background information about their family, such as where the daughter-in-law works and where the parents' hometown is.
Once, my colleague was delivering me documents at the gate and happened to meet him, and it turned out that my colleague even knew the ranking of my child's midterm exam.
Not only does he know each family, but he also cares about what happens in each family. For example, Xiao Wang and I at the post office lived opposite each other, and when we were exercising in the small square, we talked about the things that were divided into units for the New Year, but Zhao Ju immediately interjected when he heard it, insisting that it was two bags of rice and two bags of noodles, which caused an unnecessary controversy.
In addition, he and his daughter-in-law also pay too much attention to the details of other people's lives, especially in the autumn when everyone is drying vegetables, they always instruct everyone on how to cut, how to dry, and how to deal with various details. This attitude of excessive attention and intervention in other people's lives makes people feel somewhat off-putting, as if they are the only ones with life experience and everyone else needs their guidance.
However, it is this excessive concern for the community that keeps the community safe. They look at the neighborhood very closely, and their effect is more significant than that of some less reliable security guards. In our community, if you want to let strangers in, you have to go through their "checking", even if you bring people outside the community, you can't escape their eyes.
Over the years, there have been no thefts in our community, not even a single green onion has been missing. A beautiful resident once said that she was not worried about her husband taking other women home on a business trip, because he didn't dare, after all, there was a "Zhao Bureau" there to check it.
Everyone is curious about the old gentleman's state of mind. He is a former cadre, why does he love this community so much and dedicate his retirement life to this seemingly ordinary community? Perhaps, he regards the community as his own business, and through meticulous care and management, he has made the community a safe and harmonious community, which is why he has stayed here since his retirement. systematic