October 25, 2007
I was riding shotgun in a PUV van going to Laguna when we encountered heavy traffic at the Bicutan exit. Suddenly, the woman behind me asked the driver to pull over a gas station because she had to go. But the traffic was too heavy the driver estimated it would take at least an hour before we reached he nearest gas station. After about five minutes, the woman said painfully, “I can’t do it here!” Another lady passenger advised her to just pee in a plastic bag. But everybody was shocked when she spilled the beans. “Nadudumi po ako.” Now that was something one shouldn’t hold in, especially in a cramped vehicle!
You could sense that everybody in the van wanted to laugh but was ashamed to do so. Then a man told her to just do the thing inside the van because there was no way we could go faster. Everyone was amazed when the discomfited woman actually did as she was told! All windows were opened because of the very foul smell of the poo. And then there was silence. Then I heard the woman ask her boyfriend—she was with her boyfriend, and he was silent all that time—to “embrace me, embrace me,” to which the man hesitantly obliged. When we finally stopped at a gas station, she immediately went to the toilet to wash up. Everyone was in stitches by then!
Eson, by email
Illustration by Mikke Gallardo
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