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An Örkény translation

He have been sitting in the gateway for fourteen years behind a sliding window. Who comes in only ask two type of questions.

-Where are the Montex's offices?

He ansvers:

-First floor on the left.

The other quoestion:

-Where can I find the Gum Waste Processor?

He ansvers:

-Second floor the second door on the right.

For fourteen years he have never failed, everyone who asked him got the information what they needed. Once happened that a lady stood in fornt of his window and asked one of the usual questions:

-Where are the Montex's offices?

Now he exceptionally stared away in the far, and said:

-We all came from nothing and we go back to that bloody nothing.

The lady made a complaint. The complaint have been investigated, discussed and than they forgot it.

Really it's not a big deal.

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