工业区的电话亭

原创： 占有兵 社会纪实摄影专案

电话，对于生活在城市里的人来说，就是一个通信的工具。而对于打工者来说，意义重大，只有电话接通时，打工者才有底气。

打工者离开家乡在外面闯荡，家里留下的有老人，还有孩子，更有自己的亲友、田地、牲畜，也有自己的根。每天在生产线上劳作，所有的辛苦都会和干农活相比，坐在生产线旁，没有风吹雨淋，没有农忙，不用记住时令，只管按上面的吩咐埋头苦干，从前被太阳晒黑的皮肤也慢慢变白了。但工作中增加了以前种地时从未有过的危险---机器会压伤手、溶剂会伤害身体、粉尘会损坏肺、噪音会损害听力、长时间高度紧张会危害神经。

生产线上细分的工序，只和效率有关，从来不管打工者的工作兴趣，每个打工者就象一个永动机，从上班到下班，不停地重复同样的动作。生产线是冷漠的，既使在同一条生产线上的打工者，共同工作了几年，也从来不知道前后工序工友的家庭情况，更不知道她的兴趣爱好。

在东莞市的工业区里，电话亭随处可见。这些电话亭或位于工厂旁的杂货店外，或位于商铺内，甚至是厂房的屋檐下。这些电话亭，都有一个好听的名字——“话吧”。经营者考虑得很周全，透明玻璃隔成一个个独立的小空间，还提供一个塑料凳子。打电话的人，便可以在这个独立的小空间里安心话家常而不觉劳累。

外来务工者，是这些“话吧”的主要顾客。他们离开故乡，来到东莞，埋头在生产线上劳动。下班了，打个电话回家，与老人聊聊，与孩子唠唠，甚感欣慰，心里才踏实一点。

身处两地的恋人，是“话吧”的忠实顾客，每天都会准时到来。少的半个小时，长的几个小时，话筒贴在耳朵处，已经发烫了，仍没有结束的意思。每天上班时间，电话亭门可罗雀；下班了，打工者们匆匆吃完饭就直奔电话亭，开始相思之旅。

接通电话时，一切都不一样了。家里的孩子叫一声“妈妈”或“爸爸”，那股温暖瞬间流遍全身，滋润着每一个细胞。聊聊东家邻居的事，西家亲戚的情，家乡生活的经历就历历在目。每天早上，开门就可以和邻居聊几句，在田间和乡亲们拉家常。一个村庄的乡亲，大家都熟悉，任何一家发生的事，全村人都知道。乡亲们过喜事，众人齐帮手，吃饭、喝酒、打牌、聊天、开玩笑，笑声可以传到几里之外，再加上乡村乐队的演出，欢乐要持续好几天。当孩子们说起读书的成绩时，当老人们说起庄稼的长势时，当电话中传来鞭炮声时，当狗叫声、鸡啼声、蛙鸣声响起时，家乡都仿佛在眼前。

当早上的闹钟响起时，打工者必须得离开被窝，从排队洗漱开始，排队用餐，排队上厕所，排队打卡，排队换工衣，排队点名，排队开早会，然后和生产线一起---运作十个小时以上。工作中的走神，又让人惦记起昨天电话中孩子的感冒，或者老人身体的不争气，或者加班时间减少后收入的缩水。当一个坏品流入到下一道工序时，拉长的骂声、主管的凶样，都使走神荡然无存，只有心存畏惧地关注工作，改善质量。下班铃响起时，匆匆忙忙地到食堂扒几口饭，跑到电话亭打电话回家，和孩子又聊上一阵，再反反复复交待老人一通，才暂时安心一阵子。

电话接通时，也是精神落地时，就好象种地看庄稼长势一样的踏实。在生产线上劳作时，每天反反复复看到的，是同样一种没完没了的产品，好像永远也做不完。

电话，连接着两地的亲人，互诉衷肠，互道保重。回家的日子，愈来愈近……

Telephone is a means of communication for people living in cities. For the workers, it is of great significance. Only when the telephone is connected, can the workers have the courage.

The migrant workers leave their hometown to roam outside. There are old people and children left behind. They also have their own relatives, fields, livestock and roots. Every day in the production line, all the hard work will be compared with farming work, sitting next to the production line, no rain, no busy farming, do not remember the season, just follow the above instructions to work hard, the skin was slowly whitened by the sun. But work adds dangers never seen before when planting land - machines can crush hands, solvents can hurt bodies, dust can damage lungs, noise can damage hearing, and long periods of high stress can damage nerves.

The subdivision of the production line is only related to efficiency. No matter what the interests of the workers are, every worker acts like a perpetual motor, repeating the same actions from work to work. The production line is indifferent. Even if the workers in the same production line have worked together for several years, they never know the family situation of the workers in the same production line, nor do they know their interests and hobbies.

In the industrial district of Dongguan, telephone booths are everywhere. These telephone booths are either outside the grocery store next to the factory, or inside the shop, or even under the eaves of the factory. These telephone booths all have a beautiful name - "talk". Operators are thoughtful, with transparent glass separated into separate spaces and a plastic stool. The caller can rest assured that the speaker is not tired in this small independent space.

Migrant workers are the main customers of these "talk bars". They left their hometown and came to Dongguan to work on the production line. After work, call home, chat with the elderly, chat with the children, very gratified, just a little more down-to-earth.

Lovers in both places are loyal customers of "talk bar" and come on time every day. Less than half an hour, longer hours, the microphone sticks to the ear, has been hot, there is no end. Every day at work, the telephone booth is crowded; after work, the workers rush to the phone booth and begin the journey of acquaintance.

When you get on the phone, everything is different. The children in the family shout "Mom" or "Dad", the warm moments flow through the whole body, moistening every cell. Talking about the neighbors in the East and the relatives in the west, we can see clearly the experience of our home life. Every morning, when you open the door, you can chat with your neighbors and make a daily living in the fields and in the countryside. Everyone in a village is familiar with it. Everyone in the village knows what happened in any family. When the villagers had a happy event, they all helped, ate, drank, played cards, chatted and joked. The laughter could spread several miles away. With the performance of the country band, the joy lasted for several days. When children talk about their achievements in reading, when old people talk about the growth of crops, when firecrackers come from the telephone, when dogs bark, chickens crow and frogs crow, their hometown seems to be in front of them.

When the alarm clock rings in the morning, the workers have to leave their beds, start with washing in line, eat in line, go to the toilet in line, punch in line, change clothes in line, call names in line, hold morning meetings in line, and then run with the production line for more than ten hours. The distraction at work reminds us of the cold of our children on the phone yesterday, or the lack of energy in our old people's bodies, or the shrinkage of our income after the reduction of overtime. When a bad product flows into the next process, the prolonged curse and the vicious appearance of the supervisor make the distraction disappear, only to pay attention to the work with fear and improve the quality. When the bell rang, he hurried to the canteen to pick up a few meals, ran to the telephone booth to call home, chatted with the children for a while, and then repeatedly told the elderly, before temporarily reassuring for a while.

When the telephone is connected, it is also when the spirit falls to the ground, as if planting to see the growth of crops. When working on the production line, we see the same endless product repeatedly every day, as if we could never finish it.

The telephone, connecting the relatives of the two places, telling each other heartfelt, taking care of each other. Home days are getting closer and closer...

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