I don’t need an alarm clock because every morning I’m awakened by the sounds of very loud tinkling. The sound is N moving a spoon in his teacup very aggressively. This is a big house and I’m hard of hearing but still I hear the spoon every morning.
These are the costs of living with a Russian. At the same time, he gets very alarmed – as, I believe, only a Russian man can do – when he sees that I don’t have a bouquet of fresh flowers around me at all times. So I’m willing to overlook the spoon.
By the way, every time we go to a restaurant or a store together and answer the inevitable question about where we are from, waiters and cashiers look very alarmed, so we have to explain that we are not planning to get into a fight because we have already hashed out the Ukraine / Russia situation.
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