THE MESSASGE IS THE TARP – To politicians, be careful with the layout and message in your tarpaulin and the places where they are displayed.

A congressman’s tarp was mistaken by a constituent to be like those of the departed, with its design resembling indeed the ones placed by funeral services.

Last week, a tarp, whose size is the same as the ones used by funeral parlors, was hung at a steel fence in front of a church. From a distance, a voter noticed it and thought it must have been about another dead person’s information.

There was a white dove, a message, the politico’s photo and some words printed on a purple background.

But at a closer look, it was another pa epal lang pala of one congressman for the Lenten season.

Agi, ataktakot ak, said the observer. “Say amtak inatey lay Cong ————-!

You see that? Careful, careful – TITA ROCES

 

HONEST TAXI DRIVER IN MANILA. Yes, Virginia. There are honest Manila cabbies and there are legions of them. I found this out when I accidentally dropped my wallet inside a cab I hailed at the corner of Edsa and West Avenue while on my way to our home office located on Visayas Avenue in Quezon City.

In my hurry to get out from the taxi as I was rushing to catch up with a chartered bus that will bring us to Calamba, Laguna, I accidentally dropped my wallet I was holding after getting my fare money. I only realized I lost wallet in my pocket when I was already going up the stairs to my office.

I related this to Faye, my officemate, and if she said that if this happened in a taxicab in Baguio, she can guarantee that my wallet will be returned.  Lo and behold, after just 20 minutes while I was warming myself up with a cup of coffee handed by Baby, my other officemate, here came up with a radio broadcaster from adjacent Radyo ng Bayan holding my Senior Citizens card. This was Manila and not Baguio.

I surmised that he used my SC card to trace me on facebook and that’s where he knew where I was working and possibly heading to that building. ” Walang nawala dyan, Manong“, the taxi driver said as he handed my wallet that contained just P2,000 plus. Actually it was the couple of IDs in my wallet that concerned me.

Faye called a fotog to document the proceeding and in an instant this appeared in the agency’s website. That was my first time to drop my wallet in a taxi and I am glad it happened in Manila where cab drivers, many of them if not all of them, are really honest. I was ready to just charge this to my experience but then this honest cabbie came. – LEONARDO MICUA

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