…can be best described as putting the stuff you want to buy on the counter of 7-11 and then looking at your wallet and discovering you don’t have any money.
Oh well, this just happened to me a few minutes ago. Nasabi ko na lang, “Ay ate, naiwan ko yung pera ko sa taas, ehehehe,” tapos pasimpleng lumabas. Medyo takbo na rin.
Safe to say I wont be coming back to that joint for a while.
Having no money to pay a bill would be one of my worst fears, right next to my fear of depths. At pag sinabi kong depths dito, hindi yung malalalim na feelings ha (which is actually third on the list) but yung malalalim na lugar.
Back to money. Pagpapawisan ka ng malamig pag nangyari to sayo.
My worst (and only) clubbing experience would be Decades. Nagkayayaan ang aking mga dating BestWestern officemates MJ, Lavine, and Garry sa Decades sa Metrowalk. Now I fully know disco bars ain’t my thing (Kitams nga disco pa ang tawag ko sa mga ganun. Yak.) but I went along for the heck of it. You only live once you know.
Pagkatapos ng ikatlong bote ko ng Smirnoff, napapa-indak na rin ang yours truly. Malamang nakakahindik tignan, kaya hindi ko na rin masyadong sinusubukang sariwain pa kung anung mga pinag-gigilingiling ko nun. Dami pa namang magagandang girls dun na naka-mini. Yam-yam!
Panlimang Smirnoff ni Lavine, aba anganaknangtokwa pinalpitate! Tyempo naman nasa labas na sila ng Decades nun and they wouldn’t have to cut through the packed house at baka kailanganin pa namin ng bouncer para maisakay to ng taxi.
Garry and I were the only ones left at the table, siyempre kailangan may tao dun kasi di pa bayad ang bill. Since emergency and kailangan na naming umalis, sabi ko kay Garry I’ll just stay and pay the bill, penge na lang nung share nyo. Good, okay sabi nya at worried na rin siya kay Baby Gurl (Baby Gurl tawag namin kay Lavin. Apparently baby pa nga sya to hold copious amounts of alcohol). Bigay siya 500. Alis na sila sa taxi
In-ask ko na yung bill for four. Imagine my face paling when I deduced kulang yun cash ko. Now I don’t use credit cards so talagang you can imagine kung pano ko piniga’t tinuyo lahat ng alkohol sa utak ko para masigurado’t makapagisip ako kung sapat ba yung pera ko.
Short nga. Shetpakset.
Ika nga, honesty is the best policy so sinabi ko kay Manong waiter (by this time, ginamitan ko na siya ng word na “Manong” kasi nagsisimula na kong mag-solicit ng awa) na kinukulang nga ako ek-ek, tinakbo sa Medical City si lukaret, pababalikin ko si MJ to help ek-ek. Dammit, isa sa mga makapigil hiningang oras sa buhay ko.
Halatang nabadtrip si Manong. Awa ng Dyos buti na lang may load pa ako. Mga bente pesos (ahahahay). Text na kay Garry at MJ.
A few minutes after, pinaalis ako ng table. Sayang nga naman at daming tao na gustong umupo (at magbayad) pinalabas ako sa may entrance ng Decades. This was also the time that I can casually tell you na pinaligiran na kong mga bouncers.
May lumapit sakin at sinabing pumasok daw ako sa loob but stay near the entrance so they wouldn’t lose me. I kept reassuring them that someone would be back. So ang ginawa ko, I just bobbed my head and body to the beat and try to look like I was enjoying myself… while praying fervently.
Dito na talaga natest yung faith ko sa mga kaibigan ko. To tell you the truth I know MJ and Garry would indeed return for me, kaya lang ako kinakabahan e with the fact na sabog na sila sa limang Smirnoff. Sinabi ko na rin na pinalilibutan na ko ng mg bouncers.
Dumating ba? Well, dumating si MJ (mahabaging langit!) at buti naman e macocover nya yung kulang (Imagine na lang kung dumating nga siya pero kulang pa rin no?). Akala nga ni MJ bubugbugin na ko e.
We silently hailed a taxi that will take us to the others in Medical City. Incredulous, I quipped, “Gusto mo umiyak? Ako, gusto kong umiyak,” while chuckling a little bit forcefully.
Pagdating namin dun, imagine my feelings of near-miss with death, when I found out I was right: these three were still tipsy. They were the loudest people on the first floor. O sige na nga sama na ko. We were the loudest people on the first floor. Medical City, 2am.
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Useless Update:
This morning, before going to work, I absent-mindedly went to the SAME 7-11 and got the SAME cashier.
She looked at me with the briefest of recognition. And then I remember. Dammit!
2 Comments
March 18, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Hahaha. This is a nice post. =) Made me laugh for the first time for this day. Hahaha. =)
Buti naman I can cannibalize my own life to lift up your respective moods of the day. Sige, sambayanan, tuloy nyo lang yan.
March 20, 2008 at 7:34 pm
wahahah! grabeh!
inopen ko nga yung photobucket account naten tapos nakita ko yung pics sa medcity! camwhoring pa rin kayo. wala akong masabi.
Sila lang yun! kita mo nga yang si Lavin tutumba na nga pose pa rin.