Victor Pelevin. The sacred book of the werewolf (№ 305972)

Often a man thinks, here goes the spring city girl-flower, smiling in all directions, and she doesn't realize she's cute. Such a thought naturally turns into the intention to purchase is not self-aware beauty well below its market value.
Nothing is naive. Man, so aware of itself and the flower girl - no? It is as if a farmer from Nikolaev, sold his cow and came to Moscow to buy an old "Zhiguli", passed by the salon a Porsche, saw in the window a young seller and I thought, "He's so green... Suddenly believe that this orange "Side-ster" cheaper "Lada", since it has only two doors? You can try to talk while he is alone in the hall..."
Such a man, of course, very funny, and the chances of him whatsoever. But all is not bleak. For the farmer from Nikolaev, there is bad news and good news.
1) the bad news is this - he did not buy below market value. All counted, everything is under control, everything is verified. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
2) the good news is, this market value is much lower than seems to him in his hormonal haze, coupled with an inferiority complex and distrust of success.