I was chatting with a couple of Asinganian ladies who came to Toronto for a short break. They own a store in Poblacion Asingan and they complained about the new Kings of the Road-the tricycle drivers. She said the drivers seem to have a license not only to drive their noisy vehicles anytime at night but also to scatter garbage anywhere they park.You know, cigarette butts, snack wrappers and a few they say would even piss just right there on the wall of the store..Thus the store owners sometimes would wash out the piss puddles with a bucket of water just to remove the smell.In most cases, it takes more than one bucket to fix the problem..
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Property owners also complain that due to the absence of public toilets, adults would just let their children defecate anywhere, the nearest spot so the kid concerned won't soil his/her knickers. An Asinganian wondered one day about a familiar smell in her premises. She could not see any kind of shit lying around. So she tried the bushes. Eureka! Under some plants is a big pile of the stuff. And it seems it had been used regularly..No I dont think the tricycle owners did it. They are not small enough to creep under the bushes to do that kind of thing.
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The last time I was in Asingan, I went crazy hearing the bells. The Catholic church is in the middle of a big tract of land.Besides their bells give out a solemn mellow tone. But the Independent church uses an acetylene tank as a bell ( who would think of this asinine idea?) It gives such an irritating sound that when it's campanero start ringing it, all the dogs in the block would start howling and wont stop until the blessed bell stop its pealing. There is freedom of religion, all right, but there should also be freedom from noise at 5:00 am in the morning when everybody in the neighbourhood deserve additional minutes of sleep.
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