11.1 The Last Supper
Mang Ed and his dog Bantay (1.4) proceeded to the local sari-sari store (3.7), owned by an old lady (10.7). She reeked of smoke (2.1) , probably because she did smoke. She was old but she still had a lot in her. She didn’t think of the “bad” things in the cigarette, she would think: “If I were to die, then I would have a long time ago. But then here I am”. He had a hard time looking up to the woman because he was in his wheel chair.
Bantay suddenly barked when he heard of two women talking on the road about “office gossip” (5.2). Something around the lines of getting in trouble and getting framed for it. The women dropped her pen in the irrigation flowing below the sari-sari store. He didn’t attempt to pick it up. He thought: “They are more than capable to do it themselves” - that they were. And she tried picking it up. The dog went to the women and tried to fetch the pen in the shallow flowing water.
A truck suddenly passes by the narrow road. The old woman shouts at the driver: “Oy, truck ban, bakit dito ka pa dadaan daan! Sa tingin mo hindi ka mahuhuli!” (6.2)The road was one lane, even SUV’s had a hard time passing through. Now this was a truck, but he pushed forward. Bantay barked and barked, as the roaring of the truck freaked him out. The dog was barking at the truck. The truck making the beeping sound of its reversal trying to get out as he could not proceed. One of the wheels skidded to the side of the road and hit the dog. There was no more barking. It was silent. The old lady handed over the plastic bag of leftovers - a meal that should have been for Bantay.