Beerkada Comics

I appreciate how Metrobank ATMs try to give you 2 P200s and a P100 when you withdraw P500 nowadays, instead of a single P500 bill.

Anyway, the first stop I make after getting a P500 bill is the fast food outlet.

I remember how I dealt with that P500 bill. You can’t use it for public transportation: when you use it to pay for your bus fare, the conductor would invariably tell you he’d give the change later. After 30 minutes, you’d get down the bus, and suddenly remember the conductor still has P485 of your change.

This as the bus hurriedly drives away, leaving you with smoke-stained tears.

Anyway, the first stop I make after getting a P500 bill is the fast food outlet. They would invariably ask me if I had a smaller bill.

I would invariably go through the motion of checking my wallet (plenty of twenties and fifties, there).

‘No.’, I reply, lying with a straight face.

I do try to avoid being a bastard in convenience stores, buying a P12 bar of KitKat with my P500 bill.

All the while evading the admonishing stare of the cashier.