Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 09.12.2018 01:22

 AK>> Well, once I have found the most stupid question asked on Earth --
 AK>> to ask a drunken man why he had sat behind the wheel drunken. ;=)

 AS> That reminds me of an opposite occasion: an ingenious question from
 AS> a drunk man to a sober. It happened in the cusp season when late
 AS> autumn yields to early winter and the weather is damp, cold, murky,

I heard in this context about "we are on the cusp of winter season". Not sure
about "cusp season".

 AS> and depressing because there is no snow yet to amend the early
 AS> darkness, the barren trees and bushes, and the general greyness of
 AS> the world. It is in such mean weather that my father and his friend
 AS> were standing at a bus stop and shivering in the cold when a drunk
 AS> bedraggled man, probably a bum, accosted them in this respectful
 AS> manner: "O fathers!", said he, "what is the time?", to which one
 AS> them said it was eight. "Fathers!", said the bedraggled man after a
 AS> pause, "it is in the morning or in the evening?"

In Russia we also know a famous story about a drunk man who mistakenly got to
Leningrad instead of Moscow by plane, then he got on the taxi to the equally
named street, the same block of flats number, and the same flat. There he found
 a girl and they fell in love after a funny mess. And every year, on the New
Year eve, Russians love to watch the screen version of this story on TV. ;=)

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2018

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