"When I met the señor from Mexico I expected him to be wearing a poncho with a Sombrero perched jauntily upon his head, chest crossed with bullet-laden bandoliers, leading a burro - their word for "donkey."

Instead of a hearty "¡Hola!" he simply shook my hand and said "hello" and and welcomed me to "Buenos Aires." I replied "No espeak-oh Spanish-oh." I looked in my Spanish/English dictionary later on and concluded he was saying something about this being a non-smoking area."