Hi Mr. Prokhorov,
Your birthday is coming soon and I want to send you a little gift. I don't know what will happen with all these air traffic chaos all over Europe. If they won't fly soon it means you won't get it, or you won't get it on time.
I'll slow down after this posting, I want to make sure that you're interested to read or better yet to respond. It would be tragic if you'd reject my plea to sponsor my projects. Tragic not in a physical or psychological but ideological sense. We can help so many people in so may ways. It would be more work and time consuming effort for me to go through list of others. I really, really, really want to work with you. I kind of have an idea about you as a person and it would be wonderful if you just give me a chance to explain everything to you. I don't worry about my ideas being stolen, because nobody has the same skills, knowledge and personality. It's like a handwriting. If you'd invite me to Russia and provide me with a place to stay with a nice kitchen, I'll cook for you. Cruse on Moscow river should be included, please. My grandmother used to say "never ask a man a question before you feed him, you might end up with a wrong answer." She was a wise woman and was happily married all her life. Although she lived in an era of only home cooking and never worked outside, she still is right. Men are still the same. They need more care and attention, than women, believe it or not. Statistically happily married men live longer.
According to your life story, as an adult you were a care taker. Your sister said that when your mother got sick, you were a teenager then, you went to work to pay the doctors. That clip is stuck in my mind. You have been a good son.
Let's get back to prosa now.
Men get cranky when they're hungry. If I cook for you, while you eat, I'm going to do the talking. You'll choose the stories: comedy (yes, I can be funny), drama (it's easy) or tragicomedy. Those are for entertainment. For business, I'll talk about my projects and how to get your deposit back from French. There can be some legal loophole.
On my small apartment rental contract in Nice I discovered fraud on top of a fraud.
I spoke with 4 lawyers, showed them the contract, all of them said the same thing; it's a fraud and brokers are doing it to everyone, see if anybody can fight back. I did. Took lots of energy, though. Culture of fraud is deeply embedded in their business practices. They have no human conscious to feel bad about wrongdoing. They consider it as an heroic act, maybe still want to compensate for little Napoleon's defeat. You can not fire a store cashier there, let alone a policeman. When I was there policeman ran over a teenager in Marseilles, in the middle of the day, on the red light, killed him on front of people. Witnesses were crying on TV, telling how it happened. Media went to Police Commissioner for answers, he harassed them on TV saying "what do you want, he is on the desk duty now" and scared them away. There is no place to file a consumer complain. If there is, nobody needs to know - waste of time. They were fighting against Mr. Putin - the Russian almighty government to not to return the control of a Russian Church to its rightful owner - the Russian people. They are Catholic, that Church is Orthodox, "why bother" you may ask? $$$? I have been there. They were charging 3 euros just to walk in. Bringing buses full of tourists and sticking them up with a fee at the door. Have you seen a Church anywhere that charges people to walk in? I haven't.
I have a tragicomic story for you. It happened in France to our presidential candidate (2008 election) Mitt Romney, who speaks perfect French. When he was running for presidency here, French were very jittery there. The story is...
Many years ago he was traveling in South of France, got into a horrible automobile accident, got all injured, broke down, police came... You will not believe what they did. Thank God he survived. It would be tragic if it wouldn't be so sickly sarcastic. Same thing can happen to anyone today. They didn't change a bit.
I also have my story. Not as bad as his, not accident, the door brake in. I called the police 4 times, spoke both English and French, they kept hanging up on me and didn't come. Life's worth "0" there, I mean - nothing. You think they give a darn about the justice, for your property or money? Even when Princess Diana got in accident, knowing already that it was her, ambulance kept her in that tunnel for 40 minutes before driving her to the 3rd hospital passing by 2 others on the way. Did you hear any lawsuit about it? Any doctor was accused of anything? I didn't. Dody's father sued, but not the hospital. When Mitt Romney was criticizing Hillary Clinton and ran out of normal words in dictionary, he said "she is like France."
If he runs again, we should get together; you, I and Mitt Romney. He'll tell you the full story and try to get my vote. It's all on you.
There is a book by British author about France. I read it, laughed a lot and loved it. I'd recommend it to you. Also we can translate it to Russian. It will save money for Russians. Nobody who has a self-esteem or values life should go there. When you call the police and they hung up on you, there is nothing you can do. It's not being recorded like in here, no proof that call was made. I told to so many people, especially those with children, to be careful. That's a good place only for dogs. Dogs run around and do it everywhere, on the beaches included.
When you get a dog, then go for a vocation there. Don't forget your Kalashnikov and a personal Doctor. You'll walk around, no need to pick up dog's stuff. Take the pooch to hotels, restaurants, beaches - everywhere.
To avoid the rot in the streets, in the summer, I was commuting to Monaco to be able to swim (I'm a good swimmer, by the way). Also what kind of unimaginable perverted things they show on TV, words can't tell to normal human. Do you know that almost all the slang words in English came from French? One of them is on every door...
I better stop now, get another coffee. Going to get a piece a cake too, need comfort food after this negative talk.
Do you like cakes? Double chocolate B...e, yum-yum? My favorite is... Sorry, it's classified...
OK, I'm back. I'm in a coffee shop and someone next to me left a paper on open page for horoscopes. I looked just for fun (don't bother with that or the paper) and your sign says "I have" and mine says "I think." It's funny to see this right now. Coincidence or a sign?
I liked when you said that the biggest achievement is yet to be accomplished. It's all depend on you. I can only offer certain type of help and hope you'll do the same.
Best regards.
