June 8, 2008
all we are saying is stop stealing my fucking glasses
Four retirees have guarded the wire-rimmed glasses on the John Lennon statue in Havana Cuba for the last eight years.
“You have to be here every day because the day you aren’t, there the glasses go,” said watchman Juan Gonzalez, an 89-year-old retired filing clerk who smokes up to seven cigars a day guarding the bronze statue from a nearby bench.
In fact, the guards are so worried about another theft that they hold onto the glasses in shirt pockets or rags, restoring them to Lennon’s face only when tourists want to take pictures.
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Tourism meets OCD meets cigars. Awesome. What a perfect storm of Anglo-Cuban-Americana.