AWESOME LEO-ORIGINAL STORY

Planets alligned in some weird way yesterday, making it the strangest day ever in my life, there is no other explanation for what happened.
I was with my family, we were going to visit my mother-in-law who lives in a city some 150 kilometeres away from us.

I stopped at a gas station to fill up the tank, and there I saw this cool hipster guy who was driving some odd-loking car. This futuristic-looking, small silver car really caught my interest so I wanted to talk to a guy a bit. He didn't even notice me while I was approaching him, he was crouching and checking air pressure in his tires.

When I got closer I got a better look of a guy. He was in his late 40ies, scruffy looking beard, hair looked like he didn't comb it for half an year. And when he realised I was intentionally coming towards him he looked at me, and then I noticed his eyes hold the wisdom of hundreds of generations.

"Excuse me sir, I hope I am not boring you, but I was wondering what kind of a car is this."

He smiled like when a teacher smiles to a good student:
" I am really glad you asked that question. For a moment I thought all the curiosity in the world died. This my friend is a LEOpard, a game-changer, solution to most of the world problems? "

I admit that at this point I wanted to squeeze out of him everything there is to know about this vehicle.

"Never heard of the brand"

"Of course you didn't hear of it. I invented it 2 months ago in order to solve the problems of the 21st century civilization. The name is a funny story actually. While I was developing it, I set a goal to my self Level of Emmissions = O. And i kept writing this mantra on all of the papers and projects and in the end I just figured that should be the name. Afterwards i just added sufix pard because if I called the car just Leo it might come of as bit pretentious, considering that is may name. And LEOpard sounds cool doesn't it? "

I thoight to my self this guy is awesome.

"You sir sound like a genius, I am really glad to meet you, I am Spalatino"

He shook my hand and said:

"Nice to meet you Spalatino, I am Leonardo da Vinci"

"Wait what, you were named after THE Leonardo da Vinci, universal renaissance genius"

"Well... kind of, I am him actually?"

Now things have taken a sharp turn to the Weirdoland.

"So you are what like 500 years old?"

"Actually I am a lot older than that..Lets just say I am not your ordinary guy I was...."

And then my wife shouted my name, interrupting him in the middle of the sentence. I used the lifeline my wife threw at me and excused my self fast out of the conservation.
Then i saw sadness and dissapointment in his eyes. I felt I let him down somehow, and i felt so bad, so guilty. Hard to explain actually

That funny feeling stayed with me ever since. When i rewind the entire encounter backwards i realize I was wrong about something. His eyes didn't contain wisdom of hundreds of generations, his eyes contained wisdom of every human generation.

I was so stupid. Now I will never have the chance to ask him... to ask him everything.

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