THINGS TO ANNOY YOU IN THE PHILIPPINES

1. It’s annoying when there’s a Mexican tela novela on every channel and all of them are named Maria.
2. It’s annoying when the sales clerk staples your bag 20 times.
3. It’s annoying when you buy tapes and cd’s; everything is mixed up.
4. It’s annoying when girls dress like guys; jeans and a polo shirt.
5. It’s annoying when balikbayans (Filipinos from abroad) show off.
6. It’s annoying when there’s a Tagolog version of a popular English song.
7. It’s annoying when all action stars wear leather jackets.
8. It’s annoying when there are too many sales ladies in a store.
9. It’s annoying when the biggest shoe size for men is 9 1/2.
10. It’s annoying when you buy something for P50.25 and the sales lady asks if you have 25 cents.
11. It’s annoying when stations put parental guidance on innocent shows.
12. It’s annoying when TV stations don’t put parental guidance on the news when they show dead bodies.
13. It’s annoying when a taxi driver has a rosary on the rear view mirror, then tries to rip you off.
14. It’s annoying when people are always late.
15. It’s annoying when white guys are loud, obnoxious and show off their ugly prostitutes in the disco.
16. It’s annoying when newscasters try to copy Noli De Castro.
17. It’s annoying when an XL shirt fits like a L.
18. It’s annoying when the pay phone says “Libreng Tawag.”(free call, you can’t use it)
19. It’s annoying when people think that the States is like Beverly Hills 90210.
20. It’s annoying when your mail gets lost or stolen.
21. It’s annoying when there’s no water.
22. It’s annoying when when you do get water, there’s rust in it.
23. It’s annoying when you spend 1 hour in traffic, then your teacher doesn’t show up to class.
24. It’s annoying when there are too many different sized coins.
25. It’s annoying when sales ladies follow you around the store.
26. It’s annoying when you need a sales lady; she’s busy making chismis (gossip) with her co-workers.
27. It’s annoying when dirty old men try to pick up on young ladies.
28. It’s annoying when people think that there are no problems in the states.
29. It’s annoying when everybody has to wear Polo or some kind of Italian clothes to be “in.”
30. It’s annoying when people pick their nose in public.
31. It’s annoying when men lift up their shirts to expose their big belly.
32. It’s annoying when there’s a clerk at the counter to stamps your receipt.
33. It’s annoying when everybody smokes.
34. It’s annoying when tricycles drive in the middle of the street.
35. It’s annoying when pedicabs bike in the middle of the street.
36. It’s annoying when people walk in the middle of the street.
37. It’s annoying when the sales lady gives you back P10 in coins.
38. It’s annoying when it takes forever to fix the road.
39. It’s annoying when people worship everything white.
40. It’s annoying when no matter how beautiful or handsome a black person is; they say they are ugly.
41. It’s annoying when your maid thinks there are dinosaurs in the US because she saw Jurassic Park.
42. It’s annoying when a there is a big traffic jam and a policeman is taking another smoking break.
43. It’s annoying when there are pot holes in the street.
44. It’s annoying when garbage cans are too small.
45. It’s annoying when the garbage is in the street.
46. It’s annoying when you see a young beautiful girl with a rich, married, dirty, fat and ugly old man.
47. It’s annoying when the Cardinal Sin sticks his nose into politics. That is his cardinal sin.
48. It’s annoying when your people talk slow and sing their words to you. Heeeelllloooo........
49. It’s annoying when there’s a Shawarma stand on every block.
50. It’s annoying when you own land in a prime spot and 300 squatter families live on it.
51. It’s annoying when you you get Hamburger sandwiches on square sandwich bread dabbed with banana ketchup and nothing else.
52. It’s annoying when there is no toilets but just an open shed to use while playing 18 holes of golf when you are a girl.
53. It’s annoying when you get Caesar salad dressing drowning in mayonnaise.
54. It’s annoying when you get a long menu and when you order your selection, they ran out of it.
55. It’s annoying when you get thin plastics cups to hold your large soda. Cup practically folds in and cracks when you hold it.
56. It’s annoying when you get thin plastic straws.
57. It’s annoying when you get soda in plastic bags with thin plastic straws.
58. It’s annoying when you spent so much in designer clothing pasalubong just for the gift receiver to reject it because there's no "tatak" at the front or because it's made in Malaysia and not the US.
59. It’s annoying when people think people in western countries are "overflowing" with cash.
60. It’s annoying when they complain that your pasalubong is too little (not enough)!
61. It's annoying when you ask a waitress in a five-star hotel if they have "sherry" and the reply you get is: ah, yes mum, we hab "sherry temple"....