Argentine Tango Lab

Buenos Aires is a big city with a lot of people, 13 million to be more exact. In part because of that, it is not the safest city in the world, for tourists and locals alike. You have to be careful
where you go, same as in any other big city in the world. Lately, things got a bit worse, in part because of the high prices and cost of living.
Today I’m deciding to go to a class in Avenida Boedo. While I’m getting ready to go, the news on TV are announcing about a foreigner getting knifed down and robbed while walking out of the subway station at Retiro. It is all over the news.
OK, this makes me uneasy mostly because I’m going to the ‘East side’ of Buenos Aires. So I decide to
take a Taxi. Taxi drivers in here are quite nice if they are the real taxi drivers.
It starts to rain, it is actually pouring, which cools off the weather. I sit back in the car, everything goes smoothly. It is a bit of a drive from Recoleta to Boedo. We’re passing streets that I got to know by now. There goes Avenida Cordoba. I’m closing my eyes and thinking where to go for milonga tonight. I think  it is going to be Konex. I haven’t been there for a while.
All of the sudden, BANG. I am projected almost in the front seat and my head generates a movement like do bob-head dolls. What the heck was it?
Someone rammed into us from the back. Just my lucky day, like I don’t have a sensitive back anyway. The driver stops as soon as possible. I’m trying to get out of the car and stretch for a while.
Man, that was bad. I’m in pain all over and a bit dizzy. The driver exchanges information with the woman from the other car that ran into us and is asking me if I want to be taken to the hospital.
I decide to go to the tango classes and I’m hoping in my mind that everything is OK. This is not what I need right now. The classes were very good…I think, I’m still dizzy.
Outside continues to rain and I’m heading back home to get ready for milonga. So far my neck and my back seam to be fine.
Just another day in this wonderful city.