Today is pay day so I woke up early, went to the ATM to transfer some funds and dropped by at the laundry for some self-service washing. I decided to grab some bite before I leave for the laundry. I only had graham crackers last night and a few bites of rice, omelette and dilis for breakfast. So, I carried my huge bag full of smelly jeans and went to MCDO for my much deserved breakfast. There were a lot people coming in for breakfast and it took me a good 20 mins before I got my turn. I wanted to become irate but it's not my nature and besides I had no energy for it. I ordered the pancake with sausage. There's this tray where one can just grab the maple syrup. On that same tray, there was this dark colored syrup that I usually take with me and there's this light-colored syrup on that same container. Since there were no dark-colored syrup left, I grabbed the lighter-colored ones. I grabbed my seat, and splashed the syrup or what I thought was syrup on my pancakes. It bubbled for awhile and smelled like vinegar. Only then did I check the substance, I tasted my pancake and yes, it was vinegar. I soaked my pancake with vinegar. How cool was that? It's not!!! So, my breakfast got spoiled, with a sorry face I felt like complaining to the sups behind the counter for the lousy service that morning and for not putting a label on that container. That container should have said in bold, italized and all caps letter that it's VINEGAR, not Maple syrup. My head was aching cause of starvation so I decided to just eat my sausage, drank my coffee and left. I figured that I'll just charge it to experience. I know I should have said something even if it's not on an irate level but maybe next time, not this time. There are more things worth complaining about than mistaking vinegar for maple syrup.

On the lighter side of things, I enjoy going to the laundry sometimes cause I chance upon some cute guys who go there to wash their clothes. I was unloading this pile of soiled jeans when this cute guy appeared behind me. Our eyes locked for a few seconds and then he proceeded to the counter to have his laundry weighed. I asked the girl behind the counter if she knew of any place around there for rent. She wasn't from there so she didn't know of any place or room for rent so I grabbed my phone, loaded my prepaid and pretended to read this book that I am currently reading. He took the seat beside me and he exchanged some info with the girl behind the counter. While I pretended to mind my own business, I was actually getting some bits of pieces about him. He had a very masculine voice, the kind you'd want to hear over the phone over and over or that voice that you'd want words of love whispered in you ear. After some few words with the girl, he grabbed one of the magazines on the table. I thought it was my chance to maybe start a conversation so I asked in a more or less casual tone (pretending that I wasn't interested) "uh, excuse me, do you live anywhere near here? I was hoping you could help me find rooms for rent that are just a few distance away..." He was really cute and with his smile, he said that he wasn't living anywhere there. I simply shrugged my shoulders and said "thanks! I'm having such a hard time looking for a place of my own." With just those few words, our would-be conversation ended. I was dying to call my folks back home so I'd much rather talk with them than with this stranger who happens to be gorgeous. Who knows, this guy might have a gf. So there it was, I made a phone call outside and just left him sitting there with those magazines. Besides, it only takes around 15 minutes for the laundry to be fully washed, rinsed and pre wrung. After 13 mins or so, I walked back to the laundry shop and waited for the last rinsing. HE had to leave so I, to avoid any form of akwardness, I pretended to read my book again. Before he left, he paused in front of me and said "uh, miss, I think you can find some rooms for rent up in plaza housing..." I gave him a puzzled look as if I didn't know where it was, he looked very concerned and asked, "do you know where that is?" I was like "uh, if I'm not mistaken, I think it's that place where you go right from here?" then he nodded, again, as in my most casual tone ever we ended our meeting with me saying "thanks!" Thinking of it now as I write this blog, maybe I should've pretended I didn't know the place and maybe asked him if he could show me there. It was my chance, or rather our chance to hook up with each other. With the dimwit that I am sometimes, I never thought of it. I guess my mind was elsewhere. I was actually more concerned of finding a place of my own rather than hooking up with a cute guy. So, oh well! charge to it experience. That's how my day started, am not sure how it's gonna end...