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First snow in 89 years renders city man’s trip to Patagonia with in-laws two weeks ago ‘a big fat waste of time’.

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Buenos Aires – Snow fell yesterday in the Argentine capital for the first time since 1918. Millions of porteños who would ordinarily be staying indoors and drinking mate beside gas heaters to stay warm were prompted, however illogically, to take long walks and marvel at the falling white stuff in the freezing cold.

“It was obvious that the silly bastards didn’t know what to make of it. The streets were full of people walking around with idiotic smiles on their faces, as if they’d never seen snow before. One woman was even carrying an umbrella,” commented Paul Rivas, a Southern California native who has been living in Buenos Aires since January 2006.

“I guess it’s understandable, though,” Rivas continued, “most of these people have actually never seen snow before. As a matter of fact, when we moved here last year, I asked our old doorman if it ever snowed here, and he said it hadn’t in like 88 years. I guess he was right.”

Rivas’s wife-to-be, Clare Nisbet, grew up in Arctic Scotland, and knows all about snow. However, Rivas had never seen snow fall until Nisbet’s parents took the young couple on a vacation to Bariloche, in Argentine Patagonia, just two weeks ago, during which Rivas could be found frolicking in the fresh powder for hours with an idiotic smile on his face.

“Tell me about it!” Rivas exclaimed. “Clearly, that trip to the Andes Mountains was just a big fat waste of time. If I’dve known it was going to snow in Buenos Aires, I’dve holed up right here and waited for it, instead of weathering eight days of traveling with the in-laws.”

When reminded that after the aforementioned vacation, Rivas had determined that he likes Nisbet’s parents better than he likes her, the woman he is to marry, he just shrugged and said, “Yeah, well what does that tell you? Nothing, that’s what. That and two pesos will buy you a Coca Light.”

For her part, Nisbet assured this news service that she took, “plenty of pictures yesterday of Paul dancing around with his tongue out trying to catch snow flakes, looking awfully silly.”