Bought a few items at Save More Supermarket before going home. The woman behind me who had two items kept on making parinig that she was in a hurry. Hindi na nakatiis, she asked the man in front of me, "Kuya, puwedeng mauna." The man just smiled and replied, "Maghintay ka." After a while, she repeated her request. "Kuya, puwedeng mauna. Pinabili lang ng manager ko." The man said, "Eto nga, para sa nanay ko, eh."

I was waiting for her to tell me the same thing and I would have answered back, "Sabihin mo sa manager mo, siya kaya ang pumila."

So, in short, it didn't work. She was still behind me. The cashier and the checker seemed to be taking their own sweet time. The woman said, "Miss, miss, puwede pakibilisan." To my surprise, the cashier replied to no one in particular, "Dun ho sa kabila, maikli ang pila."

Aba, aba at sumasagot pa. I should have told her, "You know it's not the point. Whether the line is long or not, huwag kayong magchikahan while working." But I remained silent.

Eto pa. While the man in front of me was waiting for his change, here comes a bagger (or clerk, I don't know what to call them) who just barged into the counter to retrieve the used baskets. As in dire-diretso. Hindi nga ako tumabi, I was waiting for him to say, "Excuse me." But no, he just got the baskets and when he couldn't get through (nakaharang kasi yung mama sa harap ko), he just stood there.

Finally, nagalit na ko. "Hindi ka kasi nag-e-excuse, eh. Kaya hindi ka niya pinapansin." What do you know, he had a smart answer: "Eh tinitingnan ko na nga siya, eh (referring to the other man)." O di ba? Short of saying, makuha ka sa tingin.

Whatever happened to courtesy, huh, Save More?

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