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Thursday, June 30, 2011

The Russians

Russians match their stereotype: they are serious, cold, unfriendly, often drunk.
But that's not true. That's because we don't know how to observe.
They always say NO at first, always. The secret is to wait, wait 5 seconds and a new world will be revealed.
To understand Russians we need to learn the first Russian rule: be patient.
Queuing is first national sport in Russia, much more practiced than the second one (drinking), which indeed has countless followers. But Queuing is for everybody, queuing has no age, no limits; something they are real masters. In any kind of office, shop or place you go you will invariably find a fatty babushka incredibly slow in whatever she's doing; she acts as if time doesn't touch her. In front of her, in a small airless office, dozens of people with stone face wait, undisturbed, their turn.
The happiness you feel after you accomplish these missions (dealing, of course, in Russian) is beyond everything else.
The Mistery of Russians will never be revealed, not without patience.



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