Roberto Sanchez Rivera has been planning his
unique UFO house
for about 40 years. In a perfect world, I’d be saying his inspiration
for the project was love, but this is the real world and Roberto’s true
motivation was sweet revenge. In his youth years, when he was just a
dreamy, artistic student from a poor family, he courted a girl by
sending her love notes decorated with drawings of UFOs, and telling her
he would one day build a UFO-shaped house. Not the usual pick-up lines,
that’s for sure, but he eventually made her his girlfriend, if only for
just three months. After she broke off their relationship, the girl’s
mother told Rivera it was because she thought he would never amount to
anything in life. Rather than crying his heart out, drowning his sorrow
in booze or burying himself in work, the man started plotting his
revenge. The truth is he was so devastated that he even contemplated
suicide, but then he said “No, I’m going to show her, this person, I’m
going to work that much harder to show her who I am.”
The craziest part of this story is Roberto Sanchez Rivera’s revenge plan
actually worked. Although he wouldn’t reveal her identity, the
ingenious builder says he once got a call from his ex-girlfriend, while
he was still working on the house. She even came down for a tour of the
unfinished living space and she was so impressed that she wanted to get
back together with him. Only now, it was Rivera who was no longer
interested. He had gotten the sweet revenge he had dreamed of for so
many years.
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