One girlfriend tells another: "To us in psychiatric hospital where I work as the nurse, have brought the person. He used some health treatments. And while he was engaged in these procedures, his clothes together with his apartment keys were in some locker. There has passed time, and his trouble has happened. Have used analogs of keys. Have got to him into the apartment and have stolen The Total Collection of works of Balzac! He has thought, that criminals made duplicate keys during his occupations with health treatments. Balzac was in search, but without any success. Now this victim of the theft has seen video cameras. He assumed, that a cameras would recognize him, identify his face. They find out when he leaves his house. He has a fishing rod with which he walks to an embankment. Here no fishes, but he got used to the walks and to own fishing rod. Is afraid that via cameras an interested persons will recieve an information when he is off his house, and then will steal his fishing rod.
The doctor has sent him to Ward N 7!"
At this moment the electrobus has stopped. Girlfriends have said goodbye, and one of them left.
However Semyon Semyonovich has heard the story and has begun to worry.
He in a supermarket has bought recently a baseball cap for 350 rubles. And suddenly, while he goes on an electrobus, she will be stolen?!
Semyon Semyonovich approaches the driver and asks:
- Switch off video cameras!
The driver shows onto the plate: "Forbidden to distract the driver!"
"My baseball cap is at my home!" - Semyon Semyonovich explains. - "The person with enormous professional experience has explained by radio, that money doesn't need to be stored in banks! At me under a mattress of 5000 rubles are hidden!" "The book by Chekhov is also at my home! "Ward N 6"! Chekhov I like more, than Balzac".
The driver waves the head negatively. May be, doesn't hear. May be, hears, but doesn't understand. May be, hears and understands, but refuses. May be, hears, understands, agrees, but has no opportunity.
Someone from passengers left a read newspaper on a seat.
Semyon Semyonovich has grabbed this newspaper, has curtailed into a tubule and has few times slapped on one of cameras.
The driver has pressed some button.
The electrobus has stopped.
A car with a red cross has approached, with two strong hospital attendants.
In half an hour Semyon Semyonovich has appeared in a medical facility.
The situation threatened with unpleasant consequences.
"It is necessary to mow under a fool!" - Semyon Semyonovich has understood.
- I am a volunteer! - Semyon Semyonovich has said. - I travel in new electrobuses with a socially positive intentions. When a fly lands on a camera, I beat with a newspaper a fly! I care for electrobuses and for cameras!
The doctor has glanced at Semyon Semyonovich:
- To the Ward N 7!
October 1, 2018 09:39
Translation from Russian into English: October 1, 2018 22:59.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Рассказ о палате N 7'.