Maybe not everybody could understand everything like an American from the following story. Having returned to America the US citizen is sharing his impressions about his trip to Russia.

-- It is absolutely impossible to understand Russians. Although I’ve prepared so well: I’ve learnt the language, their traditions and customs, and nevertheless I dealt with an absurdity. Here is an example.

I am walking along the river bank. And see a fisherman standing with a fishing-rod. I ask him if the river is deep. He answers that water is up to one’s knee here. I ask him: «But if there is any fish here?» – «The fish is up to one’s Cock here,» he replies.

Is it not an absurdity?