CASE STATION

My father worked until retirement at the railway station duty officer. One of the many told them the story of our time seems extraordinary, because both protagonists of this story have committed acts of our time seem just nemyslimymi.
The beginning of the 1980s. Ticket office small Belarusian vokzalchika. People at the train station there is little, because before it was closed there was only one direction of a passing train somewhere in Central Asia, which at our station almost no one has ever sat. To fit the window box office dark eyed woman in long colorful dress and long wrinkled, and then haltingly begins to tell some implausible on hearing the story of how she accidentally without money and documents appeared in our city. Then she starts to cry and asks that she helped to get home (neither in Uzbekistan nor in Tajikistan).
What is unusual about this story? So this is something that is not very young cashier somehow believed her and write a ticket to the cashier making their own money. Asian recorded address benefactress and promised to pay by money order, soon came into his train and more of her we've never seen.
Cost ticket that far a lot, especially if you compare it with the cost of the salary of the Soviet ticket cashier. Several station workers, dumb watching this event, after the departure of the train began to pester trusting cashier reproach in her short-sightedness. Of course, it was a gypsy, whose pockets crammed with stolen money, but she decided to breed more lohushku with provincial stations to everybody for a ride on the train, in which she would still rob a bunch of people.
Soon all the little station staff knew about the stupidity of his employee and each of his colleagues considered it his duty to the arrogant sympathy clicked his tongue over her ear about uplyvshih nowhere denezhek. And a woman cried from resentment at his stupidity; resentment at the swindler-gypsy; resentment at her husband, who was such a waste of money worse than adultery; resentment of the fact that soon the New Year, and her children are presents that because of the work she has a hole in the family budget will most likely not ...
But soon came to translation, in which the stranger with the Central Asian name and surname, strongly rounded up value given her a ticket. And at the very New Year in children ticket cashier was such a gift, which he could not give their children more than one station worker - from Central Asia to its name came a huge parcel, stuffed unprecedented in our latitudes in the era of the global shortage of treats - raisins, dried apricots, nuts and some more unusual dried fruit, which local experts from the station staff just could not identify.
And it is not known whether this woman is a Christian, Muslim, atheist or communist. It is important that this that was created by her and ticket cashier life story, haunting the station to all employees as a rare example of humanity, goodness and active thanks.

Zakhar Petrov