An office clerk was nearly dismissed for joking with his office mates. "Nag-joke, joke, joke ra ko," he said. Was it Dolphy who once said: "Some jokes can make you cry."
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I was gifted with a keyholder made of rabbit's foot. "It brings good luck," the giver said. Except to the rabbit who lost a foot, right?
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"It should not be made a no-no policy in government to ban officials and employees from betting on lotto," says my good friend Teddy H. I agree. That's the only legit way honest government men can enrich themselves while in office.
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But I got a friend working in a government bureau who disagrees. "Yes," he said. "It's an honorable way of pocketing people's money, but it takes a long time for one to whistle his way to the bank."
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Nildo (surname withheld on request), a Cebuano auto mechanic who made good in America, came home for the first time in more than 50 years. Some friends and neighbors threw a blowout for him. Just for fun, he was shown photos of 10 different foods featured in Dr. Nestor Alonso II's column in TF and asked to choose at least three for lunch. Nildo said: "Pulos man lami...pero wala'y inun-onan bolinaw?"
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A women's club officer says there has been an increase (in 2012) in the number of women beaten up by their husbands. "Mga buang asawaha," she said. "Nganong magpakulata man?"
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"No one in Congress has yet thought of passing a law that punishes a cruel husband in a manner more drastic than what we have now," she said. "Hang them bastards on a tree not by the neck but by the feet upside down for a whole day."
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A resident of Minglanilla went to a silk-screen shop to order a t-shirt printed with "I survived a tornado." Later on he came back to withdraw his order, saying "Basi'g hibalikan ta."
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OVERHEARD. Some college girls were talking about a Freeman news concerning the rise of thievery in the city. Said one of them: "Nag-hire si papa og sikyu aron mobantay sa bay." Said another girl: "Kami pasagdan ra namo way bantay ang bay wa may kawaton ang kawatan." Said the third coed: "Kaguwapa nimo basin ikaw kawaton sa kawatan o sa sikyu ba nuon."