i was in the bus, going to oslob, i sat comfortably in a soft-padded chair with an air-cooler hovering over my head. this is supposed to be an airconditioned bus, where's the damn aircon?, i thought, being the half of my body has been exposed to the air-cooler only. a while later, there's this passenger who had just been picked on the way and maneuvered himself to where i am, there still a vacant seat next to me and that's what his butt targeting. i automatically scanned and disected him, looking for weapons, read his mind like a shrink, feel the vibrations... and when i feel that he's safe and ineffectual, i comforted myself and decided to ignore him. then i noticed what he wears, why on god's name did he wear a bonnet? in this time of year, with the climate rousing to a maximum level?.
a while later, i'm trying to doze off, but i can't coz his phone is always banging with every text messages he received. ngisi-ngisi pag amaw, i said to myself as i saw him in awe while reading the messages. a grunt of disapproval escapes my mouth from time to time, desperate to catch some sleep and trying to show him my annoyance. he then, minimize the volume of his ring tone. thank god, he understood.
i fall asleep for eons and woke up from my phone's message alert tone. it's from my sis-in-law, a very important message that needs an urgent reply. i hit the 'reply' button then started composing a message. then BANG! i remembered i don't have load. BULAY-OG! i started shuffling ways on how to solve this dilemma. i still have 2 hours to reach my destination, and as i remember very well, there's no loading station inside the buses. I REALLY NEED TO TEXT HER. then i look sideways, and watch my seatmate, looking intently in his NOKIA 3310 phone screen. seemed amused on what he's reading.. then it hit me, he is my only hope or maybe not, but i cannot crossed the line of asking every passenger in the bus for some help. so, he's my first option, i practiced how to sugar-coat every damn words i'll say to him. so here it goes, i rotate my head 90 degrees to him and said "migo, naa kay load?", obviously naa jud, nakatext gani.. tanga jud.. 1 point down.. "pwede maki-text?", very classic.. i flash him my killer smile while crossing my fingers from behind. "smart?" he counter ask, unli ni siya.. sure ko.. i nodded then he handed me his phone. then suddenly, his brownish bonnet was the best bonnet i've seen in my entire life.. it almost sparkle like a diamond.. needless to say, naka-reply jud tawn ko. ang ending, nibalhin ug lingkoranan ang bonnet guy.. hadlok makitext ko usab.
acknowledgement:
thanks to the bonnet guy and to my killer smile :D
i fall asleep for eons and woke up from my phone's message alert tone. it's from my sis-in-law, a very important message that needs an urgent reply. i hit the 'reply' button then started composing a message. then BANG! i remembered i don't have load. BULAY-OG! i started shuffling ways on how to solve this dilemma. i still have 2 hours to reach my destination, and as i remember very well, there's no loading station inside the buses. I REALLY NEED TO TEXT HER. then i look sideways, and watch my seatmate, looking intently in his NOKIA 3310 phone screen. seemed amused on what he's reading.. then it hit me, he is my only hope or maybe not, but i cannot crossed the line of asking every passenger in the bus for some help. so, he's my first option, i practiced how to sugar-coat every damn words i'll say to him. so here it goes, i rotate my head 90 degrees to him and said "migo, naa kay load?", obviously naa jud, nakatext gani.. tanga jud.. 1 point down.. "pwede maki-text?", very classic.. i flash him my killer smile while crossing my fingers from behind. "smart?" he counter ask, unli ni siya.. sure ko.. i nodded then he handed me his phone. then suddenly, his brownish bonnet was the best bonnet i've seen in my entire life.. it almost sparkle like a diamond.. needless to say, naka-reply jud tawn ko. ang ending, nibalhin ug lingkoranan ang bonnet guy.. hadlok makitext ko usab.
acknowledgement:
thanks to the bonnet guy and to my killer smile :D
moral lesson:
dili magminaldita kay dili ta gwapa.
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