Malinos bought a car. Meanwhile, there isn’t a single free parking space in front of our office. None! There isn’t one! There’s simply none!!!! Lera, park your sky-blue metallic beauty by the entrance! And don’t you dare drive it to work. Ever. Car sales in Moscow have risen by 66% compared with last year. For Muscovites to reach the same level of car ownership as in Western Europe, the number of cars would still have to increase by another 30%. If I want to get to the office by 9:00, then on a weekday I have to leave home an hour and forty minutes early. So what’s it going to be like in two years? I almost wish the Earth would hurry up and crash into its celestial axis (a humorous Russian expression meaning “let the world end already”).