After a meeting with Schumey and Mam Ellen, I was on the bus on the way home when two surreal scenes unfolded.

At the corner of Edsa and Pioneer, a truck full of MMDA goons unloaded and swooped on the lone street vendor. One customer was trying to reason with the goons, but there is no reasoning with goons. When the bus passed by the MRT station, I was tempted to shout to the vendors that the goons were coming.

And then, at the Baliwag Transit terminal in Cubao, there was this man who was seated on the sidewalk gutter, with a younger man holding him. I dunno if he was drunk, or he was having medical problem. At their right was a police car, but the policemen were scarce at that time.