На Старой площади ко мне обратился негр со словами: "Good morning, sir. Could you spare some money for food?"
Я рефлекторно ответил: "Sorry, man, mind your business", и только затем сообразил, что для Торонто, например, такой диалог был бы совершенно заурядным, но у входа в Администрацию Президента РФ он звучит как-то out of place.
At Staraya Square a black man approaches me saying (in English): "Good morning, sir. Could you spare some money for food?"
I reply automatically (also in English): "Sorry, man, mind your business"... and a few seconds later I realize that somewhere in, say, Toronto, such conversation would be absolutely trivial but at the entrance of the Russian President's Office it sounds somewhat out of place.

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