Better see once than hear about it ten times. So I brought all my equipment – worn and good bits, a cartridge with a detonator, a tamper and a sledgehammer...
"You should be sacked for the violation of safety rules!" the chief of UUSH * yelled.
"Yes! I do violate. And everyone violates. And you know that! And you know the reason of the violations! But I am not lying or playing a hypocrite! Now you also will not be able to pretend and have to take measures so that we get new bits!"
They did not sack me. And the next day they gave us new bits, still in petrolatum.
"You made it, Antonovna! You did not spare yourself rescued us," the shooters used to say.
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* UUSH – Administration of coal mines.