Imagine a situation: two university entrants from Kherson came to Kharkiv to take entrance exams.

They just stepped out of the train after 17 hour trip and sleepless night and are trying to find a place to stay. Suddenly on Pushkinskaya metro station they are stopped by a policeman.
My friend and I asked: "Do we look like criminals?" The policeman looked attentively and said "Yes, you do". He accompanied us to the nearest police station in the metro and asked to see our documents. At the station two policemen searched our bags. We had to take everything out of bags and show the documents. They even checked our cigarette boxes. They asked if we smoke marihuana, because our eyes seemed red to them, faces were pale and unshaved. And we did not sleep for a long time because we were getting ready for our exams. We even did not buy sheets on the train, because it costs as mush as a kilo of sausages that we don't eat every day. The policemen did not believe us, and suspiciously looked in our subject books. Even our diplomas with distinction did not impress them. When they started to compose the protocol of search (surprisingly, there were no witnesses, as must have been according to the law), one of them saw a bottle with vitamins in Oleksander's bag. Only then the police believed us that we were good guys and let us go.
We went to the service center at the train station and started to read subject books again as tomorrow we had our exam. And suddenly we remembered: where are our return tickets? There were no tickets. Before the police searched us they were in our passports. But now we could find them neither in our passports nor in our bags. We looked everywhere, but there were no tickets.
We remembered: the policeman who checked our passports took our tickets, but he did not give them back.
At 10:30pm we ran to the police station in the metro. As we found out, the policemen who searched us already shifted with another pair of policemen at 10:00pm, and other policemen do not know anything about us.
The night passed roughly: we were trying to renew our tickets, because we had insurance policies from the tickets. We talked with the assistant station-master, at the ticket desk, but we only managed to block our tickets, so that no one except for us could return them to the ticket desk and receive money. Then till 5:00am we read subject books. And all night policemen were walking in the station and checked people's documents, sometimes talking somebody away. And we were sitting their even more unshaved, with redder eyes and were afraid that they will take us again and we won't be able to take exam.
At 6:30 policemen awakened us and said that we can not be at the train station if we do not have tickets. Not opening our eyes we explained that we have the right to be here regardless our tickets, because it is not the law and is not mentioned anywhere in the rules. The policeman named our last names and said "Why did you trouble the entire police with your tickets? Here they are laying on your table" We couldn't believe our eyes, because yesterday we looked everywhere. The policeman continued "And these two men near the table can confirm the tickets were there the whole time" The two men fearfully confirmed, even though one of them slept all this time, and another one came only at 3:00am.
Then the policeman asked if we were drunk. We said, No. Finally they left. We asked a woman at the service center if she saw these tickets on the table. She said, No, but the policemen were standing near the table about 30 minutes ago.
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We couldn't understand how the tickets got to the train station? And how the policemen know our last names? But nevertheless we were happy: who a kind police we have - they did not sleep al night and found our tickets.

Sergiy Smal