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Need A Ride?
March 3, 2007Whenever the weather is good, the husband and I take a walk around the neighborhood. And by neighborhood I mean outside the gate of our community, into a short stretch of road, crossing over to the nearby Target, and back.
Most of the time, we end up buying a few things from our favorite store. Bags of chips perhaps, a DVD that was on sale for $5, a loaf of wheat bread. Despite my propensity to buy things not entirely necessary, we never forget that we have to walk on the way back.
This afternoon was any ordinary jaunt to the red store. On the way home, casually talking about how the weekend promises to be beautiful and how wonderful it would be if the husband could just get away from work, we became suddenly aware of a car stopping beside us. The woman driver asked us if we were all right and if we needed a ride home, eyeing the two bags the husband was carrying, which she must think were heavy. We said we were okay; we didn't need a ride.
She was a good soul all right, but we couldn't quite discount the possibility that she must think we were illegal immigrants, with no car and valid driver licenses to drive with. If we were white folks walking with shopping bags between us, she'd have thought nothing of it, that we were just two people enjoying a walk on a sunny afternoon. We pondered on this a bit and then suddenly, we burst out laughing, as the husband started pretending that the bags were indeed heavy and upping the ante by limping, trying to see if another one of those good souls would stop and ask if we needed a ride.
Ah, to be strangers (read: strange people) in a (sometimes) strange land.
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Hi jopie,
murag serious kaay kas imung new entries da! Take it easy….and tnx for sharing, i wouldnt have known such sensitivities….cheers to blogging!- himantayon:
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hi isay! i’m fine… a li’l bit stressed out but fine. congrats diay oi! yehey! graduate na ka before you know it! so happy for you!
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kaith, i sent you email.
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hoppin’..musta naka jopay??
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jops, are u going home here in cebu??
- tiris:
haha ka tag-an ko! haha! anyway, missya where have u been? abi ko niuli na ka. tawgi nya ko or tawgan tikaw hehe kutob kinsa kauna =P
- theicequeen:
sus kaith, sugot jud ko! kana kung mo-salig ka nako. hehehe. baby-sitting newbie baya kaayo ko.
- theicequeen:
bilib gyud ko nimo, tiris! hehehe. *wink wink*
- Kat:
hi jops! sus, kung silingan lang unta ta no, i could leave raf with u. but then, he’s no angel. haha.
- tiris:
jops, mao ni sya kadtong magpa drive nimo? hehehe!
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small world, mai noh, matud pang tiris.
- mai:
i.hi ko ni ngoy (inger) and mike (luke)…
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aw, kung magkita mi’g balik, tiris. *assuming* hehehe. bitaw oi, they seemed like a really nice couple.
- tiris:
how small the world gets. inger was my classmate in UP hehehe! super shy. how are they? send my regards if kaila pa sya hehe *uwaw*
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tiris, i never liked taylor hicks, right from the start. that whole soul patrol thing was just silly. no offense to his fans. katherine was the whole package. and i think she’s making the rounds of hollywood already.
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hi ‘ris! can’t wait to see your boracay pics!
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jops, sakto ka about american idol. as in! ive always thought jasmine trias would look more like a pop star. and so does katherine mcphee!
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Nice to see the Ice Queen back! Now my reading repertoire is complete once again.
