Normally, students are supposed to take and complete courses of higher education. This morning, the three of us ate breakfast at McDonald’s. We were sitting near three Ilocano women – Carmen, Tita and someone else whose name I forgot.
Then we six shared the horrors of ungrateful relatives living abroad in America and overseas in the Philippines. One recurring story is about sending money to relatives who will make up their horror stories, just to get money. And when and if these ingrates do receive their free hand-outs from the kindness of sponsors, they get angry and blame the providers of hard work as “kariput” (or cheap).
The joke went on to how these recipients would take the money in the hopes of getting a diploma and to becoming an M.D. (or a medical doctor). Unfortunately, the cash wasn’t used for going to school but instead it went towards a different form of education (e.g. an “M.D.” or a “marriage degree”). We know that deceit leads to children.
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