I drive the whole stretch of EDSA everyday when I go home and I always see vendors -- you know those manongs who sells peanuts, bottled waters, candies, rags etc. I have a high respect for them and everytime I see them, I feel so thankful for my job. Ang hirap kaya magtinda sa EDSA -- mausok, mainit at delikado. When I was still commuting, I used to tell my boyfriend when we see a manong offering mani inside the bus, "Grabe, magkano kaya nabebenta nila sa isang araw... eh parang kada 20 meters, may umaakyat na nagtitinda din ng mani. So grabe ang competition. Pano kaya sila kumikita no?" (with matching explanation on Law of supply and demand lol). I also tell boyfie "Natutuwa ako sakanila. Nakakainis kasi yung mga magnanakaw. Buti pa sila masipag." If I wasn't asthmatic, I'll buy all their peanuts (I don't know why but peanuts trigger my asthma).
Last Friday, I passed by a really old manong along EDSA. I initially thought "grabe nakakaawa naman" but on the other hand I thought "ang galing naman ni manong. ang sipag". Too bad I didn't have the time to stop and buy from him because traffic was moving and well... I was scrambling for my wallet in my very organized bag *sarcasm* and I don't want to annoy the driver behind me. I suddenly had an idea -- I wanted to give something to all the vendors along EDSA. Well, not really to all....imposible ata yun. I have this idea of buying something (not really grand... things like t-shirt, food or whatever) for them and giving it to them just to let them know na ang galing nila at nabibilib ako sa tiyaga nila. Rather than resorting to easy money (like what snatchers, holduppers do at nagkalat din sila sa EDSA GRRRR), they chose to work hard to earn money. Must tell this to boyfie para siya ang magdridrive at ako ang mag aabot sakanila. Hahaha! 'Di kasi marunong magabot habang nagdridrive...nagpapanic ako. Wahahaha!
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