The Misadventures of O and J : Dumbfounded

So it's my dad's birthday today (haberday daddy! :D) . I volunteered to buy the ice cream. Going home, O and I stopped by the grocery store. We lined up by the green cart lane as we only had 2 items in tow. The line was frustratingly long (at least in my own point of view...) for a transaction that involved only 2 items but as I already promised this at home, I had to fall in line. I looked at the big cart lanes for a possible option but as I was already hungry and tired, I was unable to gauge which would be faster for us. In short, we stayed where we are. I happened to remember glancing at my watch that time, it said 8:00.

So we tried to patiently wait for our turn, chatting our time away to produce the illusion of shortening it. True enough, by about 8:15 (mind you, that's already long for 2 hungry people), we found ourselves third from the cashier. We were still chatting and still waiting for our turn feeling relieved we were almost there when out of a sudden someone tapped me by the shoulder. O and I turned around to see who it was. "It" was a quite old lady (about 50 or so I guess... ) showing her shampoo sachets in hand who apologetically asked "Pwede ba akong makisingit?". O and I were actually dumbfounded. After the initial shock, I said, "Sorry po, nagmamadali din po kasi kami. Birthday ng dad ko." The lady went away (and I actually saw she went to someone else in the line but was again denied, so she went to look for a lane with a shorter queue... )

After we were done and as we went to the transport terminal, we talked about the old lady. We were trying to think of other ways we could have handled it. I ended up wanting to say this "Pwede ko naman po kayo pasingitin kaso po paano naman sila?" while pointing to the others in the line. O wanted to handle it in a different way. He wanted to say "Gusto nyo po magbotohan na lang po kaming lahat kung pasisingitin namin kayo o hindi?" then turns to the other people in the line for their vote. We ended up both laughing.

Haayyyy... People! They never cease to amaze me and how they feel they're always exempted from the social order of things...