Father's Wallet

One day, as my best guy bud and I were strolling along the aisle of a mall, glancing at the different stores and their items, when suddenly the topic of our conversation were about wallets. Ah! Now I remember, we shifted the topic of our conversation to wallets because we found wallets at a store.

We talked about different brands of wallets. From Gucci to boardwalk to other brands I've already forgotten, we talked about the likes and dislikes in all of them, the things we put into them and on what we do to them and also, maybe (I can't seem to remember clearly), on how much money we put on to them.


"Intawon.. Daghan kaayo tsada nga mga wallet.", said I.

"Tsada lage pero gamay ra kaayo kwarta sulod.", said my bestfriend.

"Nah mao. Tsada pitaka pero intawon ang sulod, wala! Hahahaha!"

Then I thought about the wallet of my father.

"Pero Do, ang pitaka sa akong Papa ba, wa juy ilis ilis. Bisag gapalitan namo siya ug bag-o, mao ra japon, gamiton ra japon niya ang iyaha daan nga pitaka." I said.

"Hala Ai! Lage ba! Akong Papa in-ana jpon, grabe pajud ka karaan na kana bitawng daghan na kaayo panit panit!", said my bestfriend.

"Lage dayon wala pajud kastyle-style! As in, grabeh lang jud siya kasimple to the max, bah? bah? Pero...". I paused.

Looking at each other as if one has read the same thoughts of the other, we both said at the same time, snapping each of our fingers:

"Pero daghan kwarta!!!!!!"

A huge gush of laughter we both gave out.

"Lageh bah! Bisag grabeh ka pangit kei grabeeeeeehh pud ka tambok!", said my bestfriend, still laughing.

"Ug atoa... Perting tsada lageh., pero ang sulod wala ra kacompara sa ilaha.", said I, still giggling.

"Ngano kaha bah."


There we were, at the mall, still laughing like two wild hyenas just because of that one irony in life we noticed. We still haven't solved the mystery of why the wallets of our Father's are old and plain like that, nor did we uncover the truth of why they prefer those things and didn't care about stuffs like style and sophistication, nonetheless those things really did make us laugh.