# Out of Rostselmash into Bali. A story

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MMMDCLXVII. Out of Rostselmash into Bali. A story. - June 5, 2025.

Out of Rostselmash into Bali. A story.


Petrovich's salary was good. Plus, there was a significant deposit in the bank at 20 percent per annum with monthly interest payments (this was money received after the sale of his aunt's apartment).


At home, before going to the plant, Petrovich usially was listening to the radio, - the programs with the participation of economic observers were especially interesting and optimistic. One day, fascinated by an economic radio program, Petrovich accidentally went online to the website of the Central South Asian Bank and saw the exchange rates. Unfortunately, the Russian ruble had to be searched in the list of other currencies, but Petrovich persevered. He remembered a school arithmetic course and calculated the exchange rate of the Russian ruble against the US dollar on a piece of paper with a pencil. It's a little unclear. Petrovich decided to visit knowledgeable people after working day and to ask them.


Entering the territory of the plant, at the checkpoint, Petrovich was looking at some of the women and even was sending them his smiles.


After the plant, Petrovich went home. He saw the sign of a travel agency and decided to go in and to ask about the incomprehensible exchange rate of the ruble against the US dollar on the website of the Central South Asian Bank.


The administrator of the tourist office knew little about currency exchange rates, but she informed Petrovich that the travel agency was looking for a courier-porter to optimize the service of foreign guests. Petrovich estimated his possibilities - based on the length of working time - and decided to try.


On his first day as a courier-porter, Petrovich learned that many foreign guests were in need of Russian rubles. Petrovich went to the bank where his money was and withdrew a relatively small amount.


Petrovich had a sleepless night. He seemed to be half asleep, seeing his great-great- ... grandfather, who, according to family legend, was a clerk and helped the German merchant Heinrich Schliemann deliver the goods (necessary for the army) from Konigsberg to Russia. Petrovich also remembered his late aunt, who in Soviet times worked in a structures of trade and skillfully maneuvered using the norms of shrinkage. She sometimes told her sister, Petrovich's mother, about the weight of a bale of wrapping paper (for a wrapping of goods, which were weighing on scales).


In general, Petrovich decided, business - it is a risk.


In the morning, he talked to the most honest employee of the agency, who was flying out (with a tour group) that evening to a beautiful southern country (where the Central South Asian Bank is located), and handed this employee 1,000 US dollars.


After a short period, Petrovich noticed that his life had changed. In a morning time, he did not listen to economic radio broadcasts with the participation of economic experts, but he was spending only two minutes by visiting the website of the Central South Asian Bank. Petrovich used the saved time to visit the fitness center, where he was pumping his abs and biceps.


In the two minutes he was spending to visit the websites, he managed to see photos of pretty employees of the financial sector. So now he wasn't looking at the women at the factory entrance, but at the pretty representatives of financial and banking structures.


A little time passed, and Petrovich was sitting in a beautiful plane. He's flying to Bali. He has a photograph of a pretty woman from the banking industry in his wallet. They not know each other personally, but he likes her: he looks at her, his mood improves, and a smile appears on his face.


The plane turned on its engines. Ahead of Petrovich is the ocean, beaches and his personal visit to the Central South Asian Bank.


05 June 2025 09:32


Translation from Russian into English: 05 June 2025 10:49

Владимир Владимирович Залесский ' С Ростсельмаша - в Бали. Рассказ. '.


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