Super Haaalf Chickeeeen

After hearing mass earlier today, I headed to Andok's Manok in Makati Avenue to buy for myself and Ker one of our best-loved meals available within our area: inihaw na liempo! Yum yum.

So upon reaching the store and after I gave my order to the sales guy, a lady accompanied by a little girl came from behind and, in one of the most annoying voice and intonation combo that I have ever heard, asked, 

"Ano yung super haaalf na chickeeeen?" 

This she said with an intonation of a call center agent trying hard to sport a fake accent.

I raised an eyebrow but didn't put much thought into it. After all, I just heard mass, so I should still be feeling calm and at peace. The sales guy answered that it was half of the chicken and the girl said she'd have one of those. 

But then, instead of just waiting quietly for her order like how everybody else was doing, she didn't stop there.

"Ano yhung powrkcharaaap?" she asked.

"Yung pork chop po," answered the guy while pointing to the very obvious pork chop sitting right in front of us–as in directly in front of us.

"E magkano yung bAAAArbecue?"

The guy gave the price.

"Sigeh (here imagine Kris Aquino in Wheel of Fortune), dalawa nun." Then she turns to the child beside her and asked, "Gusto mo nung bAAAArbecue? Ayun oh."

At this point, I was already having an unbearable headache. With eyebrows furrowed, I looked away and I tried to drown out the annoying voice yapping away beside me. 

But no, I wasn't that lucky. 

When she saw that the guy was chopping my inihaw na liempo, she asked again, "Eh yang lieeeempo, pwedeng haaalf?" When the guy answered no, she added,

"Sige, ano na lang, dalawang raays (rice)."

As if she wasn't annoying enough, and to my dismay, she made a summary of her order,  "So yung order ko eh, isang super haaalf chickeeeen, dalawang bAAAArbecue saka dalawang raays."

To which she added,

"Yung super haaalf chickeeeen ba e kalahati nun?" pointing her finger to the chicken roasting away in the rotisserie. I nearly looked at her with eyebrows raised and with an expression saying "Hello! Half nga di ba? Could your question be any more annoying?"

Good thing I didn't because the guy chopping away already stopped chopping, looked at her, looked at where she was pointing and, with a confused/amused/annoyed expression said "Opo" like he was saying duh.

Thank goodness, my order was ready at that time and I just had to pay. I handed in my money and, without counting my change, hurriedly dashed off the scene away from the annoying person.

Argh. Some headache I got. Tsk tsk. And I just wanted to eat. Naman!