Cupboard

• Wardrobe

to go with his wife to a friend for his birthday one year of their baby. Place trump, before a barrier stood for ten minutes until armed guard called up the owners. Passers-by in the village, mostly familiar faces across the country ...

House for our friends a beautiful and rich (rich through Ukrainian letter "G"), all within the same fun and delicious. Sat as usual at the table in groups of interest went to the billiard, library and wine cellar.

I wander the floor with his parents friends, not forgetting to extol luxury obstanovochku. Suddenly, in one of the rooms I froze and falling into the space-time continuum !!!

By surprise I can not think where I was ... standing in front of me my closet!

I must say that this is not simply a wardrobe and closet! Oak, it little more than two hundred of years old old, built by his German master. Ever since I can remember, I know it every curl. He seemed to be a two-story, all carved with columns, similar to the facade of a fairytale castle. At the top, near the ceiling, head line with bared teeth, which of my classmates did not come to visit me, not used to "hang out" in the closet for half an hour with his mouth open ... And when my mother moved to Moscow, the removal of the cabinet the country has become a major spy operation ...

A lot of my life I've seen the old cabinets and cupboards, some were similar, some are very similar to ours, but it was his twin brother and obviously made with the same master he rest in peace (or God forbid his health, if he was a vampire ...). The same painfully native features, grinning wickedly at me from above ... if it was not easy to distinguish in color varnish, I would have rushed to call my mother shouting: "Mother, come to a large room! Where did the cabinet with the devil !? "

Owners of the house brought me out of torpor:

- What do you like? He's all like ...

- I like the wrong word, I like my life, my mother is exactly the same. One to one.

- Well, do not exaggerate. This cabinet is gone and can not be - it's handmade, Austria-Hungary, he was more than two hundred years. We bought it a year ago and it costs so much that ... there can not be such at your mom ...

- Yes, why not !? I tell you that there is! And about the price, because in his long and happy life for sure there were genuine moments when it cost no more than a bucket of potatoes ...

- Still, it's possible, because the master of the cabinets could cut three pieces for the life of all ... it is absolutely impossible, so as you say - your mother was a closet from this number ...

The multitude came together, people smiled, and I felt a slight distrust my words. Wife gently pinched my arm, they say do not argue with the elderly, do you need? But just to be witty, I'm never one to mince, especially when he was right. I did not stop this time:

- Offer the dispute. You a year thoroughly studied your closet?

- Well, yes and what?

- Then let's so - you just list all the drawers and cupboards of the cupboard, and I will show you that which you do not know. If I can not show a secret locker, then tomorrow I will not be lazy and bring you pictures of his cabinet from the front and in profile, but if I find a locker, then, what it is - mine. Old men smiled and enthusiastically took the dispute. They pootkryvali all the doors and pushed all Shuhlyada (drawers) was their only seven.

- Look, when you take pictures of my mother's cupboard, then shoot bigger, so you can see the fineness of the thread ... then collate.

I went to "his native" cabinet and easy movement from nowhere proposed a flat box (my grandmother in my life to him and had not, my mother accidentally discovered ...) In the box lay a cardboard box, she reluctantly otlipla from lacquered shelf surface (probably lain there untouched for over a hundred years old). In the box were old German playing cards. Well, very beautiful. Each individual engraving ... just came a voice:

- The dispute is a dispute ...

The hosts were on the faces of joy and despair. The joy of buying a new hiding locker and despair - you know from what ... Vintage card does not even have time to be frightened by the evening of the same day, they were at their old place ... Well, can not on his own, but at exactly the well, I think that no one joker difference did not notice ...