 I was recently flying from America to Russia. At the local airport some guy, while passing by, said something disrespectful and quickly left. There are a number of looser people with lots of insecurities that I have seen numerous times in developed countries. And above Europe, in an airplane of the most respected German airline, one of the stewards squatted down in the only aisle, blocking it completely and started chatting with a pal passenger. When I asked him politely to move, he glanced at me saying: «one second!», which ended a couple of minutes later only after I firmly asked for the second time. In a modern airport of Russia’s capital in the zone of passport control – huge crowd and hustle. Russians have already learned how to build beautiful walls, but organizing any process is clearly still a mystery. Periodically, an employee was running out of her booth and was yelling (or rather screaming): «Back off everyone! Idiots! I would kill you all!». Russian speaking persons understood her, but didn’t move, but foreigners, with wide open eyes, rapidly moved to other lines. I was standing there and thinking: «There’s no perfection in this world… ». Konstantin Y. Smolentsev http://smolentsev.com
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