Beer, gas stations, and cigarettes

Went out to a bar last night, called Manong's. It's a nice place where you sit down order some beer and some food and you try to chat with the people around you over the sound of the loud music they are playing. It's one of the favorite places my cousins like to frequent.

Another of their favorite establishments is Petron. Now Petron is kind of one of those places that I would never ever go to drink at in the States. It would never even cross my mind because you see Petron is a gas station. No, it's not different from most of the ones you would find in the States. It's not even one of those with a Tacobell or Subway attached to it. It's just your average gas station with a little quick mart and that's it. So what you would do is go in buy the beer from the quick mart, and then go sit outside to drink it. By the end of the night there are a bunch of drunken guys standing next to gas pumps, smoking cigarettes. Some of the ideas people have out here are just so...brilliant.