Sunday 17 June 2018

Way Back In 2014,

five friends from the Mexican city of Durango,  

were watching the Brazillion World Cup, and they had an idea, for the Russian World Cup they would buy a van and drive there, “In 2014, we saw that many people travelled to the World Cup by car, and that’s how we got the idea,” Fernando Osorio, one of the five friends, told ABC Noticias, “We would do it in a bus designed by us specifically for this trip to Europe.” but then after saving and buying the bus some sad news, in April, just when they were getting ready to leave, one of the five friends gave the others some sad news, he wasn’t going to make the trip with them because his wife didn’t give him permission, He let them know via a Facebook video that has since went viral,

 even though Javier’s announcement upset his friends at first, they weren’t going to give up on their dream or their buddy, just because the real Javier couldn’t come on the trip didn’t mean they couldn’t take the next best thing,

 a life-size cardboard cutout of their friend wearing a hilarious “My wife didn’t let me [go]” t-shirt,

 the four friends set up a special Facebook page for their adventure, called “Ingue Su Matrushka” where they have been posting photos of themselves,

  and the cutout of Javier in all sorts of hilarious circumstances, in one, he looks like he’s sleeping with a sombrero covering his face and a Jaggermeister bottle next to him, 

in another, he is posing with the Mexican friends, but in most photos he is partying with his friends and having fun, just like the real Javier would, and yes the bus did make, but without Javier, and as you can imagine, as is always the case with this kind of story, both the real Javier and the life-size cutout of him have become memes on Latino social media, I wonder if the locals in Durango will have a welcome home Javier party when his likeness returns? 


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