Holiday Tips by Know Cebu: No Carolers Allowed
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How to Get Away with Carolers: 4 Common Annoying Yet Effective Excuses!
In the “Things you are now allowed to do because Christmas is coming” book, today is probably the day that everything listed there have a legal permission to start. Caroling must be the first on the list, and most probably, rampant carolers have illegally started already.
Caroling has been a tradition to many countries, especially in the Philippines. To most countries, caroling is just a thing; but in the Philippines, it’s also taken as an opportunity for families to collect money that could help them get through the day, or for certain group of friends to collect funds for special Christmas outing, or for certain organizations to gather donations for certain allocations, or simply for children who find it fun to sing their hearts out at night with their friends bringing their DIY Christmas instruments.
However, due to this practice, there have been 2 types of people; the ones that got used to it and the ones who got sick of it.
And these are 4 the common annoying excuses people who got sick of it used to get away from carolers:
1. “BALIK LANG IG HAPIT NA JUD ANG PASKO”
This is what they commonly say, and they commonly say this right immediately when you drop the first line “Jingle bells”. And they say this even if it’s the 23rd of December already.
2.”WAY SINSIYO, BALIK LANG”
This is probably the most pa-asa excuse, because they commonly say this when you’re almost done singing your 5th Christmas song. And sometimes they go out of the house, walking towards you while there’s a sound of coins jumping in their pockets and they say “way sinsiyo, balik lang”
3. “NILAKAW AKONG MAMA”
An innocent little girl or little boy shouts from the window after turning his back from saying “Ma! Nay nanaygon”.
And the worst of all,
4. “WALAY TAO!”
A HUMAN BEING SHOUTS.
No matter how common and annoying these excuses are, they still do work all the time. But know there are also two types of carolers; the ones who got used to these annoying excuses and the ones who got sick of these excuses 😉
