The Business District Streets List of Randomness

I usually parked the car at the other side of the business district because for one, its only 60 pesos for the whole day and I can trust the car to those parking boys. My office is located at the other side of the business district means I have to walk a good 10-15 minutes to my office. Along the way there are a lot of  things I observed while trekking 2 areas before reaching the door of my office. Here are the business district streets list of randomness.

Foreigners Fast Walkers
I always noticed they walk unusually faster, like they need to run and find a toilet immediately. It's like brisk walking but a little faster. I had foreigner bosses before and they walk in a faster phase as well, even if they are only going to walk to Starbucks which is only a building away. Even the ones who are just going to a nearby convenience store they walk faster as if they are avoiding someone attempting to stick a finger up their rears.

Fresh Grads Congrats
I can sense that they are  fresh graduates who just got their first job. We all know we are happy when we first hear the words "You are hired" by the HR personnel and we can see the road to our final victory, which is your dream life, starts sparkling all over you. You can see them usually in packs, looking in their best clothes and they talk really loud, like a microphone stuck in their throats, they even surpassed the noise of buses nearby. They greatly reminds me of set of freshmens back in college that will stand in the middle of hallway after class, chatting with words "dude" and "awesome" placed in between.

Coffee Shop Door Stop
I am attempting to write a witty description and  come up a fitting rhyme for the word coffee shop. I think a door stop perfectly fits to this observation. They are people just sitting outside of a coffee shop, probably waiting for something, killing time or plain "look at me, I am in a classy coffee shop that means I am classy" without ordering anything, a step in social-climbing. Like a door stopper,  they are just there, staring in the menu or to the people who passes by.

Rider sound blaster
Blasting their music to the point you can't hear anything in the road except with that sound, except they are scooters, not suped-up cars. I strangely find them a lot in the business district especially around night, but they are not blasting music via a car but instead through a Vespa or locally known as scooter. The scooter riders will pass you by and have their music emanating throughout the streets, ranging from annoying novelty songs to the bass oriented music of hip hop.

Odd Ones Shenanigans
Everyday you will come across different set of people, minding their business and walking hurriedly hoping to reached the allowable morning grace period. Among them, you will have a high chance of seeing instances and people of pure randomness. For many years walking around the business district I saw a lot of them like:

• A sad looking clown


• Naked crazy woman blabbering about something


• Bunch of fishball vendors accelerating their carts like crazy to avoid "anti-food pushcart guys"


• Couple of foreigners brawling over a local exotic looking female


• Deranged woman peeing beside a convenience store


• Fast food mascot standing beside of a street, looking bored, probably waiting for his ride

Traveling on foot, of course in not crime infested place, can be entertaining since a lot of random things will just pop up just like that. It's like one of those blog idea generators, something new will surface every single day. But damn it, the parking fee should be cheaper around in my office area so I can park the car over there and not cross a couple of big business districts. They should just ditch the "45 pesos for first 2 hours, and 10 pesos per additional hour" craptacular rule. Just give us a decent parking price and adequate space and everything will be alright, hopefully.