Observing others is a simple skill, everyone knows it. To derive pleasure and benefit from observation, to enrich one’s own experience at someone else’s expense—this is the next gradation. Which is followed by the highest, in the understanding of the author of the book, stage: to be able to observe oneself as an observer. Perhaps the best way to understand yourself. And certainly the most interesting. “Cruise for the Middle Class” is the third collection of short stories by writer and publicist Mikhail Shcherbachenko; Previously, the books “A Short Course in Scientific Careerism” and “Life as the Art of Meetings” were published. All of them, according to the author’s definition, are the result of spying and eavesdropping, guessing and conjecture. Sometimes - looking at your reflection in the mirror. There are many more real stories in the book than fantasies. So the author asks that any coincidences be considered not random.