Davao Mwahaha!: "Rocky Road"

Digos City, Philippines, 28th September 2011 - After almost 2 hours out of Davao City, I was a bit tired having no sleep for 24 hours....from the plane trip that dawn, car trip that morning, bus trip after breakfast, the latest being a tricycle trip, and here we were in a van which was still sitting itself prettily in the dusty old terminal of city - waiting to be filled up with passengers.

Vendors kept shouting out their wares as they passed by.
My eyes were drooping at half-mast while my neck was canting slowly downwards.
I was in a light daze of meditation (or confusion?) when a male voice kept on repeating a phrase which penetrated the fuzzy fog in my brain.

I suddenly popped my eyes to their widest extent, jerked my head backwards and glanced alertly at the open door where there was man holding a plastic package of yellow-colored items.

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Cat: WHAT? Did you say you're selling Rocky Road?  (I was referring to the ice cream flavor)

Vendor (staring): ha?  (And you can almost hear his mind click tick-tock)

Cat: Rocky road, right?

Vendor (waves the plastic pack): Fish crackers ma'am.

*silence lasting for 5 seconds while Cat and the vendor stare at each other*

Cat (vehement): But...but! I swear I heard "rocky road" being said a couple of times!

Mommy Arlene (sitting by my side, poked me gently):  He said "CRACKER OW!"

Cat (small voice): Oh! .....ehehe...*sheepish*


I guess when one is half-asleep...and you consider some slang differences in dialects..maybe the "cracker" sounded like "rocker" and the "ow" was like "rowd"...

*grasping at straws*


MWAHAHA!