I relish in urban living if only for the fact that everything is so accessible. For one, my two boys and I can easilly opt to eat-out (what with my fabulous schedule that hardly permits me time to cook) in any of the fast foods round the bend of our street. The major malls in the metropolis are but a measly 7-bucks away, which basically allows us to run for patis in Mall of Asia in case we run out of it in the middle of the day.
But the dreadful circumstances which the residents of Pasay City have had to go through this past weekend proved me wrong in one respect. The water supply was cut-off since Saturday morning so my husband and Nico spent their weekend in Laguna. Since the notice (which, by the way, was belatedly given) stated that the interruption would last 36 hours, my boys came home last night expecting that the service had already been restored. Typical of local governance in RP, the notice was wrong.
And so at around 10 PM, the three of us drove around Pasay with my father-in-law to look for bottles of Dr. Edwards mineral water for babies. To our great disapointment, we discovered that all Mercury drugstores in the area were already closed ---all five branches of them within the 1-kilometer radius of my house (more or less, i'm not exactly an engineer). So we ended up with the absolutely impractical recourse to use our stock of Wilkins distilled water to wash and sterilize the bottles.
Which brings me to ask: why on earth would we need 5-branches of Mercury Drugstores, each only a few blocks apart, offering more or less the same merchandise, all open at the same time? It's just pointless and a complete marketing-don't. Not to mention, it's queer that none of these 5 branches are open 24-hours considering that the nature of their products make them the very things that must be made available to the public at all times. Mind, even Wendy's offers 24-hour services... and there's really no emergency in needing burgers in the middle of the night.
It's a good thing the water supply was restored this morning. Otherwise, I would have to go hoarding boxes of Dr. Edwards if only not to be unnerved by the lack of drugstores past dinnertime.
But the dreadful circumstances which the residents of Pasay City have had to go through this past weekend proved me wrong in one respect. The water supply was cut-off since Saturday morning so my husband and Nico spent their weekend in Laguna. Since the notice (which, by the way, was belatedly given) stated that the interruption would last 36 hours, my boys came home last night expecting that the service had already been restored. Typical of local governance in RP, the notice was wrong.
And so at around 10 PM, the three of us drove around Pasay with my father-in-law to look for bottles of Dr. Edwards mineral water for babies. To our great disapointment, we discovered that all Mercury drugstores in the area were already closed ---all five branches of them within the 1-kilometer radius of my house (more or less, i'm not exactly an engineer). So we ended up with the absolutely impractical recourse to use our stock of Wilkins distilled water to wash and sterilize the bottles.
Which brings me to ask: why on earth would we need 5-branches of Mercury Drugstores, each only a few blocks apart, offering more or less the same merchandise, all open at the same time? It's just pointless and a complete marketing-don't. Not to mention, it's queer that none of these 5 branches are open 24-hours considering that the nature of their products make them the very things that must be made available to the public at all times. Mind, even Wendy's offers 24-hour services... and there's really no emergency in needing burgers in the middle of the night.
It's a good thing the water supply was restored this morning. Otherwise, I would have to go hoarding boxes of Dr. Edwards if only not to be unnerved by the lack of drugstores past dinnertime.
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