The Dire Consequences Of Throwing Luggage At Each Other In Public
I’m starting to think that I am prone to being a witness to
couples quarreling. Yesterday afternoon, as I was inside a jeepney, we were startled when a woman (probably in his
mid-thirties and looking corporate) suddenly started screaming while we were
waiting for the green light. “Bakit ba galit na galit ka?” she yelled while
looking outside the window. “Mamaya tayo mag-usap! Papasok pa `ko!” After that,
a man angrily hurled two huge luggage (I think somebody’s toenails got destroyed
there) inside the jeepney, shouting at
the woman, “Lumayas ka! (curses) Huwag ka nang uuwi sa bahay!”
“Bahala
ka! Basta huwag ka nang uuwi!” he shouted again, and then, replicating our
country's deranged—er, dear president, he let out a series of ear-piercing curses as the
jeepney sped away from him. The jeepney then turned cemetery-like quiet while
the woman looked outside the window, probably reminiscing about her happier
times with the man.
I then
alighted, and then transferred to a UV Express instead of another jeepney lest
someone appear again and hurl a pair of bigger luggage at us. I don’t
understand, why quarrel in public when you can do it inside the privacy of your
home. Washing your dirty laundry in public would just give the people the right
to gossip about it, to bash you about it and to write about it.
So there
was a strong possibility that last night, while that couple bickered and fought
and screamed and cursed and threw suitcases at each other, a gossipy blogger,
for lack of other things to write about, was simultaneously and unashamedly writing an
entry about it, and saving it to later publish it.
Lol.
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