The way he boarded the jeep took us all by surprise: first he slid a plastic drawer, no doubt part of a cabinet, with a jersey shirt covering the contents. Then he hoisted a little girl without shoes, with feet covered in soot. His wife then entered the jeep, with a baby in her arms. Only then did he board, his wide dirty unshodden feet quite noticeable.
The little girl whined that they have no slippers, to which the man grimly said, "Bibili na lang tayo."
He set the girl on top of the pile of clothes on the drawer in the jeepney aisle.
The family was quiet, and everyone in the passenger jeep seemed to have the same question even as the vehicle continued to weave through traffic on E. Rodriguez Jr. Avenue.
"Nasunugan kayo?" the man's seatmate, a woman, asked curiously.
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