Saturday, September 5, 2009
In this dream, we were residing at the Fabie estate where my maternal grandparents used to live. So I was on my way to see a movie at a local mall and I had a five hundred peso bill to take with me on the trip. That's roughly ten dollars and regular movie tickets here in the Philippines cost about the equivalent of three dollars.
Anyway, I was going to take a jeepney to the mall and I know full well that jeepney drivers are loathe to provide change for a five hundred peso bill as jeeepney fare costs only seven pesos...or fourteen cents.
So I had to stop at a nearby foodstand to have my five hundred divided into bills of smaller denomination. Unfortunately, the guy running the foodstand didn't have change either. But as it happened, one of his friends was passing by and he asked his friend for smaller bills. That friend (more about him later) didn't have change either and asked his friend, who also happened to be passing by, for change. Thankfully, the second friend had change for five hundred pesos.
Later in the day, I was telling my mother about this particular incident. I first told her about the second friend...then the first friend. The thing is, there was something very odd about that first friend. And it was the fact that he loooked like the Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland!
Anyway, I was going to take a jeepney to the mall and I know full well that jeepney drivers are loathe to provide change for a five hundred peso bill as jeeepney fare costs only seven pesos...or fourteen cents.
So I had to stop at a nearby foodstand to have my five hundred divided into bills of smaller denomination. Unfortunately, the guy running the foodstand didn't have change either. But as it happened, one of his friends was passing by and he asked his friend for smaller bills. That friend (more about him later) didn't have change either and asked his friend, who also happened to be passing by, for change. Thankfully, the second friend had change for five hundred pesos.
Later in the day, I was telling my mother about this particular incident. I first told her about the second friend...then the first friend. The thing is, there was something very odd about that first friend. And it was the fact that he loooked like the Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland!
This is not the knave you're looking for. Savvy?
