Where is the Ministry

A man had come to Moscow on business. He was wandering around town searching for the Ministry he had to visit. He stopped a passerby.

'Listen, mate, whereabouts is the such-and-such Ministry?'

"The Ministry? Ah, that's quite close. Let me see, straight ahead till you pass a pub, then you turn left and walk on till you come to a billiard shop on the corner; then you turn right — past a coffee bar — and you come to police station No. 46. But don't stop there, turn left again. A hundred yards ahead is the salami shop and right next door is your Ministry.'

The man puzzled over these directions for a minute or two, then gave up and stopped a woman.

'Excuse me, could you tell me where the such-and-such Ministry is?'

'Ah, the Ministry. That's very close. Straight ahead until you pass the stocking shop and then right next door is the haberdasher's and there you turn left. Then as you turn right again past the perfume shop, you'll see a beauty salon and opposite it a hairdresser. And then around the corner from the patisserie you'll find your Ministry.'

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