here are a few of my most recent ones:
1. while waiting in the jeepney stop one morning, i spotted a couple (probably in their 20s) a few steps away from the crowd. a few minutes later, a woman probably in her 40s dashed over to the couple and started pulling the girl's hair (which was long by the way) angrily while screaming expletives! the poor guy tried in vain to pull the older woman's hands off the younger woman's hair. the crowd simply looked on because it was obviously a domestic altercation. after a few more minutes, an elderly man approached the trio and gently told them to break it up. the couple walked away but i can just imagine their humiliation.
2. in the mrt a few weeks ago, a skip train came and everyone scrambled to get in as the train doors opened. i accidentally stepped on the sandal of the woman in front of me. i was so embarrassed because (i) she stopped in her tracks, blocking the way of others who were trying to get in, (ii) i still took the empty spot that was "supposedly" for her because she was ahead of me, (iii) she ended up standing and she whipped out flipflops from her bag because her sandal straps ripped. i apologized to her but i still felt bad. i got my due the following week when i wore a pair of sandals i hadn't worn for a long time, and the straps promptly pulled out from the soles just as i was boarding the mrt on my way to work that morning!
3. our school had its institutional outing at splash island last week. the daredevils that we are, my friends and i tried every slide in the facility. in king pilipit, people had to slide one at a time. i mustered my guts and went first. it was hell scary! it had to be done lying flat because for the first few feet the slide was covered, so when i pushed myself down, there was no turning back! and i was sliding really fast. after what seemed like an eternity, i reached the "open" part of the slide, and i was already anticipating my splash. but i had to go through a few more turns before i finally saw the pool at the end. i pinched my nose with two fingers as i went into the water... before i realized it, i was drowning! i was flapping my arms under the water, and i felt like i was struggling for several minutes to reach the surface. i was able to grab hold of something, which turned out to be the buoy of the lifeguard. i was so embarrassed because the pool was nowhere above five feet deep, and that in my struggle in the water, i didn't notice that my top (which was loose to begin with) had...uhurm... displaced, and as i gasped for air, no one knows how many of the handful of people sitting at the side of the pool saw my wardrobe malfunction, and how many of them passed the story on to their friends. (my friends did not notice it though)
i still think king pilipit is the best slide among those i tried in splash island. :)
