This week is the second last week of the first semester of Ateneo de Davao University college department. The school where my third daughter is in second year taking up Business Administration. Within this week they will have final examination, things that made her very busy. Yesterday she went to school to make props for their presentation. She brought bunch of bamboo sticks and hammer. Her Dad even teases her that, she is having sideline work being a carpenter in the next block, to earn some extra cash. She left the house in the morning and return in the evening very tired and her arm, legs and hands are stained with color navy blue and yellow paint. When she enters the house I am watching television but my attention was diverted to her. I prepared her food so she can eat her dinner.

After she ate she came to our room and lie down on our bed beside her Dad. That’s the usual thing she does before she goes to her bedroom to sleep. She giggles and started to narrate her experienced, after her Dad noticed her hands in blue and yellow. She told us that on her way home nobody wants to set beside her in the jeep. She feels conscious because, she thinks she smells bad because she perspired a lot during the day. But then it was later did she realized that everybody distances her, because of the hammer she is bringing. She just carries the hammer unwrapped because she, lost the plastic bag of it and too lazy to find one. It was the woman with two children who made her realized that it was the hammer that she brings and her dirty looks that drove away the co-passenger to set afar from her. The woman according to my daughter Carla scolded her older girl when she attempts to set beside her. The mother even pinches the arm of her daughter.

My goodness her father exclaimed better nobody calls 911 for police assistance, just teasing her again. We then laugh, and she adds that even the driver was very careful when she gave her fare. We then laugh again, Carla said, they all think I’m gone crazy. Though we are laughing at the event, I came to think that the woman is just after the safety of her children. Though it’s not right to speculate right away or jump into conclusion but mother is always a mother. Thanks God my Carla is a smart girl not taking those action to humiliate her, instead she had learned, it’s not good to bring something that may triggers fear of others.

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