I suddenly developed a fear in big trucks today. Right after my conversation with Yanna while we were watching Ghost Whisperer together this afternoon. I was not really paying attention to what she was talking about while we were watching the said series. Not until I heard her say something like ”….kag mapatay ko, mabalik ko sa akon na lawas.” I was like, ”What did you just say???”
So the scene we were watching during that conversation was when Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt) hit her head on a rock then fell into a coma. Her soul was about to go into the light with her already-dead-years-ago grandma when she heard her husband Jim’s voice from down below asking her not to leave him. She saw her body laying on the bed inside her hospital room with Jim on the side holding her hand, crying. Of course, she went back and didn’t die since she’s the star of the show! Apparently, my daughter got the same idea too. Like I said earlier, I asked her to repeat what she was talking about. She said something like ”Kun mapatay ko bala kay may truck naga lakat sa road nga ga amo ni ho (she was gesturing her hand in a zigzagging motion) tapos naigo yako.Ti kn magsaka ko sa air tapos ma see ko akon body sa dalom, mabalik ko ya gyapon sa akon body.”
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I was like dumped in ice cold water when she finished her story. So I just went, ”Oooh,you mean for example lang? Next time, please do not say something like that because it’s bad to talk like that. Kulbaan na ya si mommy.” She then went defensive and said that she didn’t know it’s bad because nobody ever told her that it is.
Now,this is one of those things that I will find disturbing for the rest of my life and would definitely add up to all other things I am so paranoid about. That’s why I decided to write about it because I feel like if I share it, the sense of morbidity would go away somehow. So now I hate big trucks. That’s the bottom-line. I just hope I won’t freak out whenever I would see one coming and Yanna’s with me. Dang! This is like burning all the spinning wheel to prevent Sleeping Beauty from pricking herself on its spindle. Phew!
