By The Roadside

I saw them from a distance.  Even before I drove past them, I can already form the outline of a guy whose head is resting on the lap of a girl sitting on a bench by the road.  This ought to be a common sight in Luneta on a Sunday afternoon.  But this is Sta. Mesa on a Thursday at three in the morning.  An odd time to be dating I think.

It’s scenes like this however when points for conjecture can run rampant.  It’s not important where they’re from or what their real names are.  The more saucy question is, what the hell are they doing in that saccharine position at such an hour?  I would hazard a guess and say that the girl works for one of the nearby houses and the guy is a barangay tanod.  That should make perfect sense.  Most amo’s would frown at the thought of their chabukans being lovey-dovey with the neighborhood watch and I would think this thought should have already been expressed in not so subtle terms e.g., “Inday, bawal ang umibig dito, kapag nahuli kita, magbalot-balot ka na, baby.”  Or something to that effect.

But of course warnings such as that only serve to sweeten the pot, so Inday and Dodong get creative in order not to get caught and those mid-dawn episodes ensue.  My only wish is that I only get to see these two in their current position at the most– and not in some awkward scenario where they’re humping like domesticated rabbits about to be taken to a fur factory.   That, I think would be gross.