Cheering as the peso keeps plummeting

A retired police officer of my acquaintance is going to the UK where his son works. He have me a mocking punch on the belly when I jestingly asked: “Pila man ka euros ang imong bawnon?”

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I am thinking of changing my style. Some readers who’re not familiar with my style feel they’re being rubbed the wrong way if or when I happen to say (in jest) something they don’t like.

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A government official was reported to have kicked a subordinate. I made this gibe or sarcasm: “This government official should be in the national football team.” And a reader said: “Badminton iyang sport, Sir, dili football.”

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Heard in a restaurant: “Nagdali kong makalarga na sa Saudi si ... kay nisaka ang dolyar ...P48.99 to $1 na.”

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Ate Glo may be saying “Nooo!”? as the peso keeps plummeting against the dollar but some dependents of OFWs are cheering “Yesss!”

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It says here that more Pinoys are going hungry. But they’re not showing it. Unlike the hungry Middle Easterners (name of country withheld) who rushed and helped themselves to a sandwich that was intended to win honor of being the largest sandwich in the world.

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A report from Tehran has it that the sandwich which could have landed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest was feasted on by a horde of hungry people before it could be measured. Which led topnotch Philstar cartoonist Rene Aranda to suggest (in jest): “Why not just (seek) the record for the most number of people satiated by a single sandwich?” Hehehe.

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   Because he’s very popular, Sen. Barak Obama thinks he would, for sure, be US president in November. You know, that was what the very popular Fernando Poe Jr. also thought. On matters like this, my dear mother used to tell me when I counted the chicks before they were hatched: “Remember, son, man proposes, God disposes.”

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