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This is a guest post from my good friend Clay. He’s got an over-sized head which accounts for why he’s so hilarious. I’ve been traveling with this guy on and off for 7 months and I’m not sick of him yet. That should tell you something. Check out his blog, This Guy Loves To Party. It’s as great as that picture above.
Many people say Argentina is magical. I didn’t believe any of them until I witnessed possibly the greatest visual treat ever. Now I know that anything is possible in that fine country.
Derek and I are in Cordoba. We’re walking and talking — chillin’, I prefer to call it — down a busy street. We both, at the same moment, spot an Argentine man in his late 50s walking in our direction. He is impeccably dressed — beautiful full suit with immaculate trenchcoat and diamond-studded cane. “Dude, check this guy out,” we whisper to each other. “He’s probably the most bad ass man alive.”
As he walks past us, he makes direct eye contact, nods in our direction, and politely says, “Hello.” Before we have the chance to respond, he continues walking past us, now yelling in heavily accented English, “WHAT DO YOU WANT HERE?!” It was then that we realized he was not only very well dressed, but also very crazy.
I turn to Derek to make sure he’s just as confused as I am by the encounter, and he does the same for me. But it’s at this moment that I spot, out of the corner of my eye, the moment only becoming more wonderful.
For what I see is the crazy old man standing at a busy intersection, threatening a midget on a comically tiny scooter with his diamond-studded cane. He clearly wants to fight the midget. The midget looks at him and yells out something in his beautifully Italian-inspired Argentine Spanish, and then speeds off, the sound of his hilariously small engine only sweetening the moment.
The old man looks back at us, nods with a smile and a tilt of his hat as though he put on the show specifically for us, and proceeds to immediately sprint across the dangerously busy intersection with absolutely no hesitation.
Argentina is truly a magical, beautiful country.
You can find more of Clay’s insight at This Guy Loves To Party.
If this is for real, it is quite possibly the funniest thing thats ever happened to anyone.