Counting Matches for Eleven Years

The packaging said there would be 300... A man writes a letter to the Balabanov Match factory: "I've been counting matches in your boxes for 11 years — sometimes there is 59 matches, sometimes 60, and sometimes 58. Are you all fucking insane over there?"

A bowl filled with hundreds of matchsticks sits beside matchboxes and bathroom items. The joke is that someone obsessively counts the matches in every box and angrily complains when the number varies from the advertised amount, turning a trivial packaging discrepancy into an absurd lifelong investigation. EN: A bowl filled with hundreds of matchsticks sits beside matchboxes and bathroom items. The joke is that someone obsessively counts the matches in every box and angrily complains when the number varies from the advertised amount, turning a trivial packaging discrepancy into an absurd lifelong investigation.

• @pokupkabitka / 49191 2025-03-22