At the wedding of one of my wife’s distant relatives, I spoke to a stranger.

After the general topics were over, he suddenly said:

- I myself came from the Shklovsky district, studied in the same class with our President.

My mistrust apparently reflected on his face, so he continued warmly:

Don’t believe those who say they’ve studied with him. Wrong people! If you gather all those who said that they studied with him in a school or institute, you will get the population of a small town. I have not just studied with him, but I can prove it.

I wondered how he would be able to do that. Could he call the President directly and ask him to confirm his words? But his response exceeded all expectations. It was so unexpected that it was likely to be true. The man said:

I do not remember him at all! I was in one class and that was all.