Brand New

Besides listening to the good news I also have another (but can be a little sinful) motivation to go to church every Sunday- that’s people watching. I hardly see lots of people nowadays because I only spend 8 hours outside every week (I only have 1 subject left). Most people in the church do this unknowingly- I’m sure of that (even Jose Rizal knew this)… All we do is sit there and look, describe and scrutinize the other churchgoers. Of course, I don’t do this aloud. I say all those things to myself alone and sometimes whisper it to my sister.

Yesterday was quite a laugh-trip for us (myself, my sister and some people, too). A family with four kids arrived late for the mass. So our tendency was to look at the- they’re right in front of us. Fresh for the holiday, we instantly found out that two of the kids were wearing brand new clothes. How? The tags were still there. It’s not just a sticker or something… The tags were like miniature booklets with 5 pages (maybe it’s a how-to wash booklet). It’s that noticeable that people were distracted from singing and listening to the gospel.

It’s obvious they didn’t wash the clothes after buying them. I can say it’s not a gift because the sticker indicating the price was still there.

I guess we were all sharing the same dilemma that time- how to tell them about the tags without making them feel embarrassed and how to take it off if nobody has a pair of scissors.

Few seconds before we saying “peace be with you” I told my sister that “the problem would be fix when people start to greet each other”. I was right! There was a nice lady who put the tags under the shirts.

The mother of the kids was totally clueless about what happened.