Our Limitless Supply of Stupid People

If "Stupid" was a prestigious title to be earned, I may be a candidate but definitely not the winner.

For the third time, I lost a phone. And this time I would have laughed my ass off if my SIM card didn't hold a lot of important contacts (current and prospective clients, business colleagues, suppliers, etc.) Well, it was an old 5510, a hand me down from an ex, which I accidentally dropped several times already. It was still good for SMS but totally unusable for calls since the caller wouldn't be able to hear me due to the busted speaker. I was confident to bring out my phone even in the most mugger-infested areas like Quiapo. Those people are more up to date than I am when it comes to mobile phone technologies, so I know that they know exactly how much the market value of my phone would be. They surely wouldn't waste a breath to take it away from me knowing that they are lucky if they could dispose it for 500 bucks.

But yesterday, someone from the MRT earned the most coveted title, "STUPID."  6 PM, rush hour,and as expected, you're lucky if you could squeeze yourself in the train. Luckily, (or unluckily) I boarded from North Ave., the first station. I didn't bother to take the "exclusive for women, disabled, elders and children's coaches" since I was in a real hurry to get home (blame it to my tummy which had been revolting for the past 4 hours while waiting for a client.) I literally had to suck in my breath to squeeze myself out of the train. I just realized that the phone was gone when I reached for my backpack to buy a smoothie in Megamall. Funny thing was, phone's gone but  iPod was still there. Good thing I was carrying a trashy backpack and nobody would have known that there was an iBook inside. Such a stupid, stupid pickpocket! My Clinique foundation which was in the same pocket, is worth more than the phone! And the iPod was there too. Ignorant bastard! I bet he threw it away when he saw the loot he got! Hehehe! His own phone was probably nicer than mine… 

I may be stupid for putting my phone in my backpack pocket but who deserves the title better? Well,  can't blame him for trying out his luck that day. What a disappointment for him…