Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. The twelve chairs (№ 282217)

Happiness, thought Ostap, - always comes at the last minute. If you have the Smolensk market, you need to sit in tram number 4, and there, except the fourth, are the fifth, seventeenth, fifteenth, thirtieth, thirty-first, B, G and there are two bus lines that you can be sure that the first will be a G, then two-fifteenth in a row, which are generally unnatural, then the seventeenth, thirtieth, lot B, again G, thirty-first, fifth, seventeenth again and again B.
And that's when you begin to feel that the fourth issue does not already exist in nature, it will slowly come from the Bryansk station full of people. But to get in the car for a good tram passenger is not difficult. Just need the streetcar came. If you need to sit down in the fifteenth number, there's no doubt that first pass a lot of cars of all the other rooms, you damn fourth will be held eight times in a row, and the fifteenth, which is still so recently went through every five minutes, will appear no more than once per day. Just need patience and you wait.