TGTF! Crabbing tomorrow! Maybe fishing too? For chat with fishermen I stopped at Steveston Harbor:
Not much salmon yet, only one shark:
Therefore, let me to continue. Missilemen 11.
Underwater hunting only became popular in Russia. The water in many Volga back-waters and creeks was clean and transparent enough with visibility no less than three meters. The pikes weren’t afraid divers, especially when staying in underwater snags and fallen trees. And there were many such places around, for example, bay in cross of KATEK (factory named after Tarasov) with sand bottom, not much water-plant, deep up to five meters, good snags attractive for predators – excellent place. We liked to hunt and catch crayfishes there. Long and narrow creek connects this bay with main stream. It was possible to navigate our yawl through this creek to bay.
Once on a sunny July day Vovka Petlyakov, Sergey Burlakov, Mishka and Larisa Mishkins arrived to our camp. Sashka and I just finished breakfast, boiled buckwheat with tinned stew and fresh cucumbers. We were sitting near old barge, drinking tea with treacle-cakes when our friends landed from the ferry moored to “Green Grove” landing-stage.
“Hi! How it’s going?” – hailed arrived.
“Ready for hunting?” – asks Mishka.
“Always ready” – answer I: “Bombed successfully?”
“As always” – replies Mishka.
My question is related to yesterday’s examination on the Scientific Communism discipline. The word “bomb” has a meaning of crib use during examination. I do not remember why, but the word “bomb” in such contents had a meaning of crib, and “to bomb” means to pass examination by crib. Mishka was excellent student and experienced bomber. His “as always” means that everything went smoothly, and he in particular got A.
Strangely, there was tolerable relation to cribs in Soviet society. Crib’s usage wasn’t criminal or serious cheating. Most of teachers even didn’t punish student who was caught cribbing. Usually teacher took off cribs and changed examination questions for such student. But in all other world cribbing is a fraud and student, who was caught cribbing, is expelled from the university with a stamp of dishonest person. Terrible, we would not believe in this if somebody told us in those days.
Tags: Harbor, Missilemen
