: In a city bath, a man is faced with Soviet life: bath attendants are rude, there aren’t enough gangs, the laundry is going around. Barely having received a coat, he leaves - unwashed, without his soap and in the pants of others.

The narration is conducted on behalf of a man whose name is not mentioned in the story.

They say that citizens in America have excellent baths.

They don’t steal the linen there, but wash and darn it, even remove the footcloths and do not need the numbers - clothes are stored in special chests there.

Our baths are not so good, but you can wash.

The hero of the story came to the bathhouse and got two numbers there: for underwear and for outerwear. He tied them with ropes to his legs and went to the bathhouse.

But there are no gangs for washing. One citizen washes himself in three gangs at once and not a single one will yield. The hero barely got a gang for himself only in an hour.

There is no place to sit in the bathhouse, there is a wash going around. Everyone erases their things, only dirty spray flies in different directions.

The hero washed himself by force, went to get dressed, and not his pants give him out.

“Citizens,” I say. - There was a hole on mine. And on these Avon where. " And the attendant says: “We,” he says, “are not assigned to the holes. Not in the theater, ”he says.

I had to wear it.

He began to receive a coat, grabbed - there is no number plate, one rope dangles around his leg. Still, according to the description - one pocket is torn, there is no other, the top button is there, the bottom “is not expected” - they gave him a coat.

The hero came out of the bath and found that he had forgotten the soap. He wanted to return, and they say to him: "Undress."It is not allowed to enter the bathhouse. So he left without soap, even the cost of the loss was not paid.