I brought my children to Trece Martirez and to Tagaytay. Because both of them were busy with work, I set the appointment a week in advanced.
We had one day bonding.
It only took us thirty minutes to reach Tagaytay from Trece Martirez.
Nyke was the one who chose where to eat lunch. Although Oyen wanted Cafe Roma, she willingly obliged to have Filipino food in Green ATS Bulalo Restaurant.
It was on a Wednesday but there were a good number of diners.
We chose a table in the center. Afterwards, another group occupied the table beside us.
The woman sitting directly behind me was oblivious to the fact that the back rest of her chair was touching the backrest of my chair. Sandalan to sandalan. Whenever she moved, my chair got pushed and naturally the movement shook me a little bit. At first, I tried to ignore it. After a few minutes nag excuse na ako and in a very nice manner, I let them know that our chairs were bumping each other.
After a few minutes, I noticed that her chair was touching my chair again. I just ignored it, trying to understand that maybe she didn’t notice it. Then after a while, I felt her elbow touching my left shoulder. I looked and her elbow/arm was sticking out some 8 inches into my air space. Her bended right arm was resting on the top of her chair and on the top of my chair and beyond.
What do you do when things like this happen?
I ignored her, I just moved my body a little bit forward. Hindi na ako nakasandal. I must admit that I do get easily irritated in situations like these. I expect people to always be conscious of social graces and proper decorum in eating in restaurants. We should always be careful and wary that there are other people in the restaurant.
Instead of asking the woman again to move her chair, I just moved my heavy chair forward without looking at them. Oyen was facing me. She could see them from her vantage point. Nagulat daw when I moved my chair forward. The woman turned her head, looked at me and looked at Oyen. They had eye contact. Eyes to eyes. Oyen just looked at her also without any emotion.
They left ahead of us, when they stood up to leave, she bumped my chair (kunwari patay mali). She was probably offended when I moved my chair away from her. I actually did her a favor, baka kasi nasisikipan sila. When I told my daughter that the woman bumped my chair, and I suspected it was intentional, she said “she bumped your chair? That means maldita talaga sya”.
Ms Annie.. That lady is what we call a PUBLIC NUISANCE… 😉
She doesn’t have any social graces or manners at all.. Akala nya cguro, porke’t malaki sha, mai-intimidate si Oyen sa kanya ha? Nakatikim sha ng PENETRATING LOOK from pretty Oyen.. 😉
TITIG SA TITIG… MATA SA MATA… 😉
Sabi nga ng late Mom ko, there will always be someone who will DELIBERATELY RUIN ur day, kahit nasaan ka.. 🙁
Kaya kung IKAW daw ang MAS NAKAKAUNAWA, IKAW NA LANG DAW ANG MAGPARAYA… 😉
Nagkalat na naman po sa kalye ang mga KSP — as in KULANG SA PANGARAL ng mga magulang… 😉
Or better yet….
KULANG SA PAG-IISIP… 😉
ahahahahaha…. :)) :)) :))
Have a nice evening and God bless u and ur family…
Ikaw talaga Pam.
Siguro spoiled.
no she’s just too full of herself!
i had a bad morning too yesterday bec. of a mother-daughter tag team at MiniStop near the Austrian embassy. The mother was sitting on one of the stools when I fell in line para magbayad. so when nong umusog ang pila, i was a bit surprised when sumingit yong matanda and she somehow mumbled something unintelligible though i presumed it’s about her na pipila before me. I just looked at her with a blank face and let her be. when the line again moved, inilagay ko mga bibilhin ko sa counter çoz i had to reach for money sa coin purse ko. the old woman got angry, she said something i can’t remember now and she looked really fierce at me, i told her ipinatong ko lang yong mga bibilhin ko. she looked at me with baleful eyes as in akala mo were mortal enemies ang tingin. so i said in a low tone while looking for some coins na> kasi di kayo nakapila kanina. Well she shouted at me lang naman with her fired up eyes na nakapila daw sya kanina at (i tend to forget bad memories) and proceeded in her very high and haughty voice na ano daw ang sinasabi ko na di sya nakapila naupo lang daw sya. I was shocked kasi sinigawan niya ako. I said inilagay ko lang mga bibilhin ko sa counter anong ikinagagalit nyo. Besides hinayaan ko pa syang unahan ako.
omg! Lalo niyang nilakasan ang boses niya at sobrang mapangmataas na ang boses nya as if nasa bahay sya at pinapagalitan ang katulong nila. Bakit ko raw sya tinaasan ng boses. So sa kanya ok lang pala na taasan niya ng boses ang ibang tao pero di sya pwedeng taasan ng boses, Kako,”My God ang tanda tanda nyo na pero ganya\ ang ugali ninyo!” The old woman said, idinadamay mo pa ang diyos dito! She garbled on things trying to make me look bad and she then proceeded to intimidate me (everyone in MInitstop watching the free show!). the old woman said, “Anong gusto mo ngayon ha? Anong gusto mo ngayon?, Anong gusto mo ngayon” She said that while she walked nearer to me, until her face is inches away na lang. I said, “My goodness, grabe kayo! My God!” I was appalled to witness someone as old as her who did try to look good çoz i think may appointment sila sa Austrian embassy but she looked rubbish from Tondo to me then.
I said, “Maswerte kjayo at edukada ako at di ako pumapatol sa matatanda.” the old woman again replied,”Anong ibig mong sabihin ngayon ha? anong ibig mong sabihin ngayon?, before she turned to the door. Even her daughter who is no better than her awful mother did the same thing. Awful daughter advanced towards me until she’s near enough to within inches from me and tried to intimidate me by copying her much awful mother who did not teach her well or instill in her better manners! The twice awful daughter said, “Anong gusto mo ngayon ha?! Anong gusto mo ngayon?!” The awful daughter was a true copy of the very awful mother. And she intimidated me with an awfuol smirk to her face. All i can say was, “grabe tong mga to!” I told them na kulang sila sa edukasyon and the cowards that they are proceeded to their car in front of the embassy’s building.
I let God handle that awful occurence. They don’t knowwhat I may be able to do and if pinatulan ko sila i know I’ll be just another statistic of someone who made patol sa mga basura or mga walang kwentang tao na nagdadamit disente. I just am glad i was able to reign in much of my raging anger/temper or else I know I could have done something that they more than deserve.
You can’t buy class…
I was once at S&R on a Sunday night, buying sweet and sour honey for my coughing son. The cashier went to get it while I was waiting to pay for my purchases. A couple of people were next in line, while their companion, an older lady, went about still gathering groceries to add to their cart. After her last run she caught my eye and asked haughtily, “miss, are you in line?” I was mulling over what to say to put her in place, when suddenly I decided that was just too exhausting. So I raised an eyebrow and opened my chinita eyes as big as they would go. Buti nalang it worked 🙂