Moscow newspapers In Moscow, an old grandmother goes to the newspaper store, buys a newspaper, glances at it briefly, and immediately throws it away. The next day, the grandmother goes to the store again, buys a newspaper, looks at it briefly, and immediately throws it away. So it goes day in and day out, one morning the sales clerk asks the grandmother curiously: "Grandmother, why do you always throw away the newspaper immediately?", whereupon the grandmother answers, "... oh, I just look at the obituaries...". The salesman is astonished, "But the obituaries are not on the front page...". The grandmother replies, "...the obituary I'm waiting for will be on the front page..."