“A strange coincidence brought Mikhail Sharygin that day to the Foam of Days beer bar. Petya's school canceled the parent meeting, scheduled the day before in the most awkward way at two o'clock in the afternoon. It's like all the children's fathers and mothers are unemployed. Anyuta didn't even manage to get out of her library, but Mikhail was released. The kind head of the laboratory was on the occasion of his birthday and allowed him not to return to the institute ... "