scenario 1 -- on the plane back to manila (have i mentioned that i'm back home? newsflash: i need a better welcome-back line than "you gained weight!")
on the seats next to me, two filipinos (who apparently just met on the plane) struck up a riveting small-talk conversation about their lives. i thought, "wow, they're friendly (and extremely open: the middle-age woman was asking the yuppie male to give her daughter a job). it's nice when people open up to complete strangers that way. i hope they start talking about bank accounts and PIN codes."
the man (who was in the middle seat) then stood up to go to the toilet and, as i was in the aisle seat, i offered to get up to make room for him (he's . . . shall we say . . . expansive). he went ahead and squeezed through the small space between my knees and the seat in front of me, successfully suffocating my knee caps. (suffering suffocates, batman!) (i don't know why i said that.)
the woman (in the window seat), seeing that her new best friend was gone, stood up and whispered to me conspiratorially, "i better go to the toilet now. i don't want to have to go through him. that man is HUGE!!!"
so much for instant unbiased friendships.
scenario 2 -- waiting for a cab
after a considerable amount of time trying to hail a cab in makati, i saw one with a passenger ready to get down near where i was standing. unfortunately, the passenger got down in front of foreigners who were also waiting for a cab. i looked back longingly and the two female caucasians wave at me, "here, take this cab. we know you were here first."
so i thanked them profusely. and then they followed up with "we know you filipinos would've done otherwise, but we'll let you have this."
thank you for the cab, for insulting my race and for making me feel more grateful that i'm back where i'm supposed to be.
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"and extremely open: the middle-age woman was asking the yuppie male to give her daughter a job"
- di ko kaya ang innuendos sa pangungusap na ito, i wouldn't know where to start. let's just say that now i know why the words "male" and "job" shouldn't appear in the same sentence. sabeh.
"we know you filipinos would've done otherwise, but we'll let you have this."
- inappropriate, but true. the Filipino First policy has been optimized by our countrymen, especially our senior citizens. be wary of postiso-gnawing septuagenarians pretending to be lost or feigning the inability to read menus in fastfood queues. they know what they're doing.
and, here's my welcome-back line:
nice rack.
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