Friday, April 27

An Encounter with a foreigner


I was at work this morning when a foreigner just walked inside the cafe. He was wearing a "malong" sort of a kilt, a Scottish traditional garment. In our country the Philippines, a "malong" is also a traditional garment used mainly by women. Anyway, I noticed right away that this ONE foreigner is a "lisang", in other words he's a bit of a sloppy. He has this accent which is not American. I think his from Europe. He looked at me and said: "Hi, can I use Internet?" then I said yes. He looked tired and when he saw the bottle of water in my table, he grabbed it and asks if he could have it. I said no because it's mine. He said he'd paid 20 pesos, again I said no. I point him out to the store outside. So, he got back in and he had a COKE in his hand.


I give him the computer number on which he will be using the internet. Our cafe has booths for every computer and has a door in it. Funny thing is that he said, he doesnt want to be locked in. I said of course not, we don't lock clients inside, it's up to them if they want to close the booth.

He was kind of annoying, he keeps standing up and coming over to the counter and asks too many questions. When he sat, I noticed that he was just wearing brief inside the malong...:) Strange man...

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