27 January 2009

Share a Seat, Win a Friend

Have you ever seen the "share a seat, win a friend" sign? I have yet to meet a person who actually won a friend just by sharing his extra seat.

I don't know who coined that phrase, but i do know it wasn't really meant to encourage camaraderie and friendship. It is a device to accommodate people in scrumpy places.

We all know why those signs are there. We don't believe it - but we still do what it says. We still share that extra seat out.

I don't know why, but it is probably because we have this hidden faith, even with just the slightest possibility,  that we might just win that friend, indeed!

It's like that feeling we get before opening a bag of Chickadee's  -- we anticipate that free toy; in the same way that we anticipate winning that free "friend."





10 comments:

daniel john said...

"don't know why, but it is probably because we have this hidden faith, even with just the slightest possibility, that we might just win that friend, indeed!" - oo nga naman malay mo naman diba?Ü

jeffrey castro said...

manika ba yung isang baby na nakaupo???

rah oibas said...

hahaha oo. apparently. :)

Oliver Cachapero said...

basketball na lang!

leslie balino said...

at least meron something for people, kahit scrumpy pa ito..better that then none

C. Seamus Ü said...

dapat share your food win a friend. mas totoo at socially relevant.

C. Seamus Ü said...

nangyayari parati na may lalapit na tao at magtatanong sakin: "excuse me, may nakaupo ba dito?"
either may multong nakatabi sakin parati pag kumakaen ako mag-isa, or sobrang labo ng mata ko, apparently wala naman ako nakikitang nakaupo dun...sila ba may nakikitang nakaupo dun? =/

rah oibas said...

"excuse me, may nakaupo ba dito?"
Hahahaha, oo nga! bakit kailangan pang magtanong ng obvious, nagmumukha lang tuloy tayong tanga. Parang tuloy na tayo pa yung may obligation na magpaupo, sila na nga yung humihingi ng favor. Mahilig yung mga pinoy sa ganon noh?

rah oibas said...

ang problema yung mga pinoy, nagooffer ng food na hindi naman talaga nila gustong ishare.
Sa Filipino culture, dapat magpapilit ka muna bago ka makikain like: Tara kain tayo! (hindi ok lang, busog pa ako) Sige na, kuha ka na ng pingan mo. (hindi ok lang talaga ako.) Hindi sige na... sabay abot ng plato pingan... (Kailangan ba talagang magpapilit muna ng tatlong beses? hahahaha

jeffrey castro said...

eto pa! ang pinoy magtititra ng huling piece ng pagkain eg. last piece ng french fries, last piece of chicken, last piece of lumpiang shanghai... magkakahiyaan pang kunin yung last piece... hnlabo...