I am not a prude. But I am also a very private person. So when an acquaintance started lecturing me on the various positions that are "guaranteed" to get my reproductive hormones going, I was incredulous. The acquaintance couldn't have chosen a more appropriate place: the cold-cuts section of the supermarket.
So there I was, smiling a seemingly interested smile, nodding in agreement every now and then, all the while wishing she'd find a better audience. I was after all, in the grocery for cold cuts: not for cold, hard facts about reproduction.
Funny, but while she blabbed on, I felt like an audience in those you-gotta-try-these demos in supermarket kiosks. Like super-fast peelers or no-mess mops or stay-sharp knives. Only, the lecture was about hormones and positions and timing. And there was no way I could get a demonstration. Or a free sample.
Funny, too, how she referred to the act as "gamit." As in: "gumamit kayo blank number of days after your period." As if the whole reproductive thing bois down to use and utility...
3 comments:
Hahaha!! I just got the same lecture too from my BFF's auntie/chef while she was dyeing his mama's hair by their swimming pool!! She was giving me "instructions" on how to "make a baby boy"...I seriously wanted to jump in the pool and get away from her as fast as I could :)
I won't be graphic na kasi nakakadiri yung mga pinagsasabi niya...yaaakkkk!!
And the worse thing is, these people are often the hardest to shake off. Ay buhay.
How about this:
"Ilan na anak niyo?"
"Wala po"
"Ha?!"
PAUSE. Then face falling, seemingly overcome with PITY, they ask:
"Bakit?"
My golay.
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