Аннотация: MMMDCXLVI. The solution of a housing issue by Petya Yagnenkin. A story. - April 11, 2025.
The solution of a housing issue by Petya Yagnenkin. A story.
As a child, Petya Yagnenkin lived with his parents in a communal flat.
When he became a student, his parents got a flat, so he lived with his parents in a separate (not communal) flat.
And after his higher education, new times came, and Petya Yagnenkin began to engage in small business.
The most profitable business turned out to be transportation services (cargo transportation).
Petya, unexpectedly for himself, bought (for a small price) an old house in a garden association, and got married.
His wife took care of their children; Petya was immersed in his small transport business.
Things pleased him. Petya acquired a huge plot of land on the territory of the cottage village - for the construction of a new private house.
Petya planned the house to be as large as possible and with as many floors as possible.
The construction process had already begun, and Petya saw the future in his mind: he, as an entrepreneur-millionaire Savva Morozov, would live in a house-palace.
But there was an inconspicuous detail that Petya did not pay attention to. A very influential man bought a plot on the same street with Petya. This man dug a construction pit on his site half the size of Petya's pit. Petya did not attach any importance to this circumstance. When meeting Petya, this man was turning his head away and was pretending that he did not see Petya, and that he did not hear Petya's polite "hello!".
But what does it matter to Petya? Petya periodically watched TV, he listened to the radio in his car, so he knew from smart people that all kinds of fools and idiocies of high-ranking figures are easily and quickly corrected by laws and the state based on the rule of law.
However, suddenly Petya's business went awry. It came to such a boundary (the red line) that Petya had to abandon both his modest garden house and his huge plot of land in a cottage village (with construction underway), and hastily flee to the neighboring krai.
But Petya was full of energy, and, besides, he found out the preferential mortgage program.
So he quickly turned from a tenant into the owner of an apartment (in the neighboring krai center), - although the Petya's apartment was secured by the bank that issued the mortgage loan.
Things went well for a while - Petya was even once invited to a meeting of the Association of Small Entrepreneurs once: he was shown as an example of a successful small businessman and of a man who solved his housing issue (problem).
However, the situation was changing. More and more fines came to Petya for violating traffic rules, and the fines became more and more large. Petya had no desire to think or to recall about a car insurance and repairs, a car maintenance, or gasoline prices.
One day he had a dream while sleeping: his car turned into a huge pump, from which a hose stretched to Petya's body, and through this hose the pump pumped liters of money out of Petya.
The size of a payments for apartment was an interesting theme, too. Petya found the joke of one of his friends to be an exaggeration: 'In past (earlier) you was possessing of an apartment, but now an apartment is possessing of you.'
But the utility bills were getting bigger and bigger.
Moreover, one day, out of habit, Petya went (with his wife and children) on a tourist trip abroad, to a Turkish resort. But he was stopped at the border: it turns out he has a large debt for utilities. The house in the garden association, abandoned in his native oblast, made itself felt.
Petya was surprised at first: where did the debts come from? Let's say he hasn't paid for utilities in two months. Why not turn off the water, gas, and electricity? Why is he sinking into increasing debt? Why instead of disconnecting services (of disconnecting the water, gas, and electricity supply), debts ("according to the standard (norm)") and penalties are rising up? (Why are debts ("according to the norm") and penalties "piling up" instead of disabling services?)
But there was no time to indulge in philosophy. Events were moving fast.
After an unsuccessful trip abroad - when all expenses for paying for flights, for a hotel accommodation, for excursions and for other things were lost - the wife got nervous (she, it turns out, did not forget their escape from her native oblast to a neighboring krai), divorced Petya and came away from him (with the children) to her parents.
Petya Yagnenkin tried to persuade his wife not to leave him, not to divorce him. His wife said that Petya's prospects were uncertain. During one of Petya's talks-persuasions, Petya's wife suddenly said something flattering about Ovechkin. Petya did not understand what Ovechkin had to do with Petya's life circumstances. But Petya was trying to joke: he told his wife that Ovechkin was playing for (in favor of) Washington. And if Washington had played against Ovechkin, what would Ovechkin's life circumstances have been like? (And if Washington was playing against Ovechkin, then how would Ovechkin's life develop?) His wife did not understand Petya's humor and did not accept his jokes. She parted with him.
And with the mortgaged apartment, after more and more debts for utilities, different troubles happened. Petya did not understand the legal intricacies, so he could only be an observer and ask his friends for permission to live in their garages [in individual concrete boxes of collective garages].
The friends' garages were well equipped and insulated. Some garages also had minimal amenities.
While living in his friends' garages, Petya listened to the radio. One day, from a radio program, he learned about difficult times, about the so-called "Sergianism", about a cruel owner who was coming into the pen with lambs and was taking away the lambs, one by one.
But, nevertheless, Petya's working capacity decreased, and his income decreased (to almost zero). And after a cold winter, he acquired some kind of chronic cold (chronic disease).
After visiting the clinic, realtors called Petya and asked him if he wanted to sell his old house in a garden association and a huge plot of land in a cottage village for a modest sum. It turned out that these objects can still be sold for modest money.
Petya was surprised by the good quality of the treatment and agreed to the sale of his remaining real estate.
The money from the sale was small, but it was nice to hold it in his hands. However, Petya, so far, treated himself a honest businessman (like Savva Morozov) and he distributed all the debts. Some of his debts remained unpaid, although the money received from the sale had already run out.
A winter was approaching. The winters have now become warmer. Nevertheless, it was dangerous to live in a garage in winter (with a chronic cold).
He need to wait for a while: Petya hoped that his children would not leave him in a difficult situation. But they need to "get on their feet" ('to stand on their own feet') - that is, to acquire a readiness for adulthood. In the meantime, as he found out, he is in a searching (he is wanted): on the issue of alimony.
Petya decided to go to the so-called charity house - there (judging by the ads) a free accommodation, meals, as well as a work and a salary of at least 1,000 rubles a day are guaranteed.
Petya thanked his friend, in whose garage Petya lived, took his things and went to the Charity House. Probably, Petya will be able to solve the alimony issue while living in the Charity House.
April 11, 2025, 14:29 (2:29 p.m.)
Translation from Russian into English: April 11, 2025 20:52
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