Although this was a good laugh, I have noticed a weird phenomenon chatting to guys -- who are always either Canadian, British or American -- in bars or at resorts in places like Cuba, Dominican Republic or Costa Rica, who have the most preposterous bullshit stories ever.
I'm well travelled, and while I have come across a fair share of barroom bullshit in Canada, the UK, Ireland France, Netherlands, Italy, etc., absolutely nothing -- and I mean nothing -- compares to the bullshit I've heard in boozers in Latin America. I mean, it's fucking epic.
A guy in a pub in Belfast might spin some yarn for you about how he and George Best were once drinking buddies; but put that same guy in a bar in Havana and he'll tell you how he was once married to a famous porn star. My personal favourite was a guy my friend met in Costa Rica who told him he was an undercover CIA agent investigating Colombian drug cartels.
It's like as soon as some guys land in Latin America they take on a new identity.