A man goes out of prison after twenty years. He decides to go back to the neighbourhood where he lived.
When he gets there he cannot recognize the place. Everything has changed a lot.
The places he used to visit have all disappeared.
Even the pub has disappeared. He is very tired and would like to have something to eat.
He goes into a small café and has a coffee and a sandwich.
When he takes out his wallet he finds a shoemaker ticket in it. He then remembers that the last thing he had done before being arrested was to take a pair of shoes to the shoemaker’s.
He decides to go there and try. What a wondeful thing! The shoemaker is still at the same place.
He gets into the shop and tells the shoemaker that about twenty years before he had left him a pair of shoes to have them repaired.
The shoemaker has a look at the ticket and says: “O.K. Come back tomorrow. They will be ready then.”