Do u whistle sometimes? I mean, do u know it’s unlucky to whistle? Well, Russians say “ don’t you whistle – there’ll be no money!”
But everybody here knows of one and steadfast exception behind this omen – GAIshnik!
GAI serves as abbreviation of State Car Inspectorate, so GAIshnik in Russian means an officer of SCI or better to say – a patrolman. GAIshniks whistle so much! – but it brings them dough…
Any driver who’s been stopped for overspeeding or auto’s dirtiness or whatever reason has to ease his pocket to bribe a policeman and avoid troubles.
In souvenir shop you may buy this smarty porcelain money-box picturing a funny cop at work.
Remembered some story, I read it on the popular Russian site www.Anecdot.ru.
One guy and his wife decided to go shopping to Moscow. They lived in a small town in the suburbs. As this guy drived badly and uncertainly even in his own yard you must imagine how it was on the streets of megapolis. One moment he was noticed by a local Moscow patrolman who was very surprised by a slowly moving car - in comparison with other vehicles, swishing fast like lightning. Very soon gaishnik became anxious and nervously blew his whistle, stopping the car to aside. His first and angry words addressed to the driver were – And where are you slinking, dumbhead?
The story happened in 1999. Nowadays the traffic’s much denser in Moscow and you go at the average speed of 20 km an hour in rush time.
More than three million of registered cars for the post-Soviet city became a sheer headache for all people involved.
On the photo – a jam on the Garden Ring.
One guy and his wife decided to go shopping to Moscow. They lived in a small town in the suburbs. As this guy drived badly and uncertainly even in his own yard you must imagine how it was on the streets of megapolis. One moment he was noticed by a local Moscow patrolman who was very surprised by a slowly moving car - in comparison with other vehicles, swishing fast like lightning. Very soon gaishnik became anxious and nervously blew his whistle, stopping the car to aside. His first and angry words addressed to the driver were – And where are you slinking, dumbhead?
The story happened in 1999. Nowadays the traffic’s much denser in Moscow and you go at the average speed of 20 km an hour in rush time.
More than three million of registered cars for the post-Soviet city became a sheer headache for all people involved.
On the photo – a jam on the Garden Ring.
So in Moscow nowadays everybody slinks…
In conclusion an ironic judgement –
If there’s no money, a life flies by with whine…
In conclusion an ironic judgement –
If there’s no money, a life flies by with whine…
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