tumandok

i and my little sister brought this bag of grocery to our grandmother and later on decided to just pass by our aunt's whose house is just nearby. After visiting our aunt whose puppies are slowingly dying and deminishing because they can't be accommodated by their mother (they outnumbered the milk in her mammary glands!) and maybe because of the summer heat, we got ready to go home.

waiting for that gaddam tricycle to arrive, we were talking to each other like we used to. and then a pedicab came, i told my sister to move a little from the street because its too crowded she may be hit by that part-of-the-philippine-culture kind of transportation. and she did as i have told her. the driver may have overheard what i have told my sister to do, i dont know about him but he maybe had gathered some pride and said, "pahigad, pahigad! daw tumandok guid kamu di bala nga magpatunga-tunga!" ("get out of the way, get out of the way! its as if you are natives/residents of the place to be in the middle of the street!") Shocked as we were, we thought at first that he was just joking or fooling around. but then, with those kinds of words, we finally realized he wasn't joking at all! my sister, then, shocked as she was, said sorry to him.

well, wadaapaak? my sister did as what i have told her to get out of the way before that ogre pedicab driver could even pass by. i dont mean to put him down with his status in the society but, at least, he could have even tried to be more respectable. he could have passed or drove in that street without any hindrances because we truly and literally did not occupy the middle of the road.

but then, as the cliche goes on and on, that thing should be better charged to some awful experiences. i just want to let this be known that whatever status you may possess in the society, que basurero, que milyonaryo ka pa, at least, at least, be respectable!