For stupidity, I asked for a lifeguard job without knowing how to swim. I thought it wouldn’t be very difficult and I could meet nice girls on the beach. But one day I almost drowned trying to save a lady who, I thought, was drowning. But she was only doing some exercises. I thank Saint Charbel because the lady knew how to swim and she saved me. So I’d better sell coconuts on the beach.

Abundio Prieto
Acapulco, 1994