My boyfriend and I met my dear father last Thursday at Robinson’s Place Manila. The day was just a regular day for me though it was my birthday (can’t believe I turned a year older again!) Nothing really special happened, it was just my father wanted to meet my “security guard”. After my father apologized because he needed to take his rest due to high blood, my boyfriend and I lingered some more time at Starbucks to have our coffee (should I say juice) talk.
But before this whole Starbucks scene, my boyfriend bought me a gift. Actually, I asked him to give me a pair of Havaianas. I guess he really can’t decided what design he would give me so when we learned that the newly renovated Robinson’s Place Manila houses an All Flip-Flops store (Havaianas dealer), we rushed in.
I saw this simple blue Havaianas which I really liked. I have this history that everytime I would like to buy Havaianas, there is no available size for me. So this blue Havaianas was size 33-34. I needed a size 35-36, so I asked one of the staff if there was a size 35-36 of the slippers. And his (I think it should be a she, no offense to gay people) answer got into my nerves and really irritated me.
ME: Meron pa bang size 35-36 nito? (Do you still have size 35-36?)
STAFF (with one eyebrow arched a little): Wala eh. One size lang yan lahat. (None. One size only.)
ME: One size lang? Kelan pa nangyari na one size lang ang lahat ng paa ng tao sa mundo? (One size only? When did it happen that the feet of all the people in the world has one size?)
STAFF (a little surprised with the answer): Ay sorry po, wala na pong size 35-36 nyang design na yan. (Sorry, no more stocks for 35-36.)
ME: Yon ang sagot, hindi yung one size lang. Ano un? One size fits all? (That’s the answer.)
Luckily, my boyfriend (whose also a warfreak) didn’t hear the conversation or the staff would be shaken.
I ended up buying a cute lavender-colored Havainas slim.
Anyways, I still had a Happy Birthday then.
