
Part V of the New Year's fairy tale with a continuation
...At 7 am the UAZ “tadpole” arrived with a major from a friendly unit, but they didn’t let him in until 8 am – until the head of the AWP gave his own permission. At 8:15 at the divorce, the head of the AWP, having previously told the minder everything that he thinks that only 10 of the 6 engines rebuilt according to the plan are ready, and this despite the fact that the month ends in a week, carelessly so, casually informs him same: if he suddenly has a free minute, let him look out of the corner of his eye at the engine that comrade major rattled on.
At 9 in the morning, having opened the dry sump pan, the minder finds there instead of oil a set of some kind of piece of iron. At 9:30 am, a “medical consultation” is assembled from a minder, a turner and a blacksmith with the participation of the major.
... Minder (looking at a pile of obscure scrap metal that fell out of the engine, which he saw for the first time in his life):
- It seems to me, although I could be wrong, that in a past life it was a gear ...
Turner:
- In principle, it seems to be true: on this piece of metal, traces of the cutter are clearly visible ...
Blacksmith:
- Well, yes ... and they hardened this piece at +1, dipping it in engine oil ...
Major (with hope in his voice):
- AND?..
Motorist:
- Well, I'll have a free minute, so I'll take a closer look at this scrap metal ...
"330 each"
This is followed by a scene - a small one, about half an hour:
... And the next morning, the happy owner of an engine unknown to science (rebuilt better than zero straight from the factory), smiling with all his 32 teeth, leaves the workstation. And on the ARM for two more days among his own, “close to the emperor” (the outfit was issued for 72 hours), it was approximately like at the end of this song beloved by the author:
Well, in order, so to speak, to dot the letter e: not every bird at the age of 28 grew up in the rank of major to the position of deputy technical officer of the unit. Therefore, at first he us in all the cracks, before giving out “330 to each”, and then we walked day and night, like that Peresyp.
The author saw that particular type of starter for the first and last time in his life. But ... "With the help of a hammer, a chisel and some kind of mother," you can do everything for the sake of your "330 to each."
Garna divchin
... With that major, in general, there was a joke from his very first day, when he appeared as a yellow-mouthed flyer in the distribution unit from the school. He arrived at the unit on Wednesday, until the next Monday he was given time to get comfortable, and on Friday evening he, “not knowing the ford”, right in the form pinned to a local disco. One "galna maiden" loudly announced: "This is mine!" (nonsense, just a couple of bruises under the eyes of competitors and left), and dragged him to her dacha for the weekend - so to speak, to get to know each other better.
On the weekends, in between “talks about nature, the weather and youth fashion” with his future wife, he found Pobeda in the garage in a state of “they put it in a coffin more beautifully” - and purely out of sports interest, he started it. On Monday morning, when he realized that by 8 in the morning he couldn’t make it to the unit for the divorce (because the “farewell” was very long), the girl herself offered to drive him to the unit on Pobeda and swore to solve all the problems with her grandfather for her check.
By 8 o'clock, he did not have time to arrive at the unit - ha, he still would have had time, if he was driving for almost the first time in his life! But fortunately the numbers were military, black - and the gays did not slow down, and the Vishniks did not get caught along the way.
At noon, it seemed to the special officer of his unit that the numbers on Pobeda were painfully familiar to him from the time when he himself was a yellow-mouthed - and he "hit the right place."
After lunch, the colonel-general rushed to the unit and could not believe his eyes: the Pobeda, a gift from his father-in-law for the wedding, traveled about 100 kilometers under its own power. But once he himself, being a master of gold hands, tried to revive her for five years in a row on a rare weekend, and then spat and scored. And I forgot.
It was then that the major's life began to sparkle with new colors. In the part where he originally arrived, he did not even stay for a month: he was already transferred as a senior lieutenant to another, "particularly close to the emperor."
The major was distinguished by a simply phenomenal ability to organize the solution of any technical problem in any place on time under the motto "tomorrow morning everything will be chuki-poki". If the author shouted to all "strangers", from the ensign to the major general:
... then the major's "clients" were from the colonel and above. This "bird" in its abilities turned out to be of a higher flight than the author.
... And now, together with a student, you carry 10 kilometers across rough terrain on a construction stretcher, two capitalized batteries from a zilka in a state “better than zero” (not on a business trip, but self-propelled - this goes without saying), and then literally on your knees you tearfully beg change them for a starter from KAMAZ in any condition and swear with an oath that next time they will “tear off only one skin” from the major instead of three. And he looks into your honest eyes - and in them it is written in large letters: "two."
As a result, we agreed on one and a half, and the author took out a zero KAMAZ starter from his unit, and even in a wooden crate - and this is taking into account the fact that even theoretically in the unit where the major served, there could not be KAMAZ starters, from the word "absolutely ".
So they lived in that fabulous country at that fabulous time:
• in even months, the major came with a "high petition" to our workstation,
• and on odd months the author "bowed low" to the major.
Forced remark
Handing over all my stash, caches and contacts in front of his demobilization, my boss gave me a short but capacious order about the major:
Shake it like the cat Basilio and the fox Alice shook the rich Pinocchio! But keep in mind: if you set him up at least once, diving into the stomach of a hungry crocodile will not be the smartest idea, he will get you there too.
And I don’t envy the fate of the greedy and stupid crocodile in advance,” he continued. “His skin will go to tailoring a bag and gloves for the major’s wife, and his head will decorate the trophy collection on the wall at their dacha.
But on the other hand, as soon as the northern furry animal knocks on the door of our closet, drop everything, and in any weather, having previously grabbed a case of Zhiguli Barnoe beer, bow at its feet. The major will love this fox, and dry it, and use it as a snack for beer.
And I don’t envy the fate of the greedy and stupid crocodile in advance,” he continued. “His skin will go to tailoring a bag and gloves for the major’s wife, and his head will decorate the trophy collection on the wall at their dacha.
But on the other hand, as soon as the northern furry animal knocks on the door of our closet, drop everything, and in any weather, having previously grabbed a case of Zhiguli Barnoe beer, bow at its feet. The major will love this fox, and dry it, and use it as a snack for beer.
The grandfather of the Garna girl, a retired general of the army, literally idolized the major, because at last there was a real man who managed to curb the "quivering doe". She had a character ... Well, how can I tell you? You will talk for five minutes and you will understand why it is customary to give female names to all hurricanes and typhoons.
And behind his wife, the major felt even stronger than behind a stone wall. She drove especially annoying lieutenant generals with a ladle in the literal sense of the word, when they, having learned the address of the major’s residence through blasphemy, at an inopportune time and out of turn tried to solve their minor problems with “a million scarlet roses” from the series “Satan’s hatch is jammed, and tomorrow control shots.
To be continued ...