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Let's do the Rub-ada-bango:Smells older than etha 

By Hernor De Asis 

   I'm so fascinated with the prominent advertisement starring Kris Aquino for promoting the product of Downy. The rhythm keeps playing on my mind, "Amoy ulam na ba kayo? Let's do the Rub-ada-bango…" The ad showed how to wipe out nasty odors in our dress by simply rubbing it, and then Downy scents will diffuse. It would be better that San Carlos must have that kind of means on washing away those stenches, so we won't be coined as "City of Smells!" , the term used was  widely spread on text messages and some social sites like Facebook.
    But the point is not about the Downy's competence of eradicating foul smells or giving indirect blow to SCBI, which most people were looking forward to their promise, "The January 31 Deadline." I'm targeting a smell older than etha!
    It may not be equally horrible but which also publicly stinks. Yes, on public! And it's the wanton urinating by half-breeds (half human and half-dogs)! Only dogs have the instincts to urinate on church and school walls or other buildings' parapets. Here comes the funny part, due to the dogs' habitual peeing on public most drivers (men) were influenced by this trending phenomenon. It's the dog who taught them the right way to pee (Teach me how to dougie?) or maybe these men are just good visual learners and tend to copy what they saw (OUCH and PITY!)
    If you reason out that it's your gut feeling or the fact that peeing is inevitable and you're afraid to get UTI, then you really need to enroll yourself in preschool. Toddlers already know where the CR is. Find a better place for that your waste's disposal. We don't want that our city will be acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Biggest Comfort Room in the whole wide world!
    Well, there's more smell in San Carlos!
    We keep on minding the smell brought to us by Etha, yet we neglect the existing stink of our stagnant drainage. Now, start blaming yourselves! Don't wait for our local government to call for a session and demand some deadline. We always procrastinate; clean today don't wait for another Ondoy, Pablo, or Sendong to clean our mess.
    Let's do the Rub-ada-bango, to lessen the stenches in our City, so that we won't hide those pongs on curtains. Before, we mind etha, let's look around our surroundings and have awareness, or let me ask you…
     Are you done with your toilet? It's the first thing to do in the morning in our own toilet, not on alleyways or manholes off streets, certainly not off our shores.