Security guards are everywhere in Cebu. A small percentage are machine gun toting sentinels like the one posing here with Jeremy. Most stand ready with shotguns, some only handguns - comforting thought?! They stand on guard at every major establishment - airports, banks, malls, grocery stores, clothing stores, restaurants, bowling alleys, McDonalds, Starbucks . . . . . Okay, pretty much everywhere! [Ooops, the 'S' word slipped out. A new store recently popped up only a five minute walk from our (Guill's) town house.] If Security Guards are doing their job, it appears that they will open and close doors for you, serve as WalMart greeters, offer concierge services, direct traffic if you need to back onto a busy street, body search for weapons [separate men and women doors], check out the contents of your bags or check in your bags to storage lockers while you shop, empty trays into the garbage, respond to the beckon call of a waitress to help clean tables, seat guests at restaurants, bundle larger packages complete with handles for transportation, help you find the item in the store that you are looking for . . . . . . . . . I was helped by a security guard to buy a printer. He showed me what they had, explained the product to me, pulled one out of inventory, asked a clerk for more information for me, packaged the product for me. . . and all this was happening in a small 20' x 30' store while 5 employees stood around the cashier desk talking about something they were looking at on the computer. Hats off to Cebuano Security Guards. I hope they get paid well!!!
2 comments:
Well, I've just been educated as to your blog site, and your stories bring different memories back to me. It makes me think that maybe I don't want to wander back to Africa as quickly as I once thought!
Glad to hear you're beginning to adjust, and I think everyone here on this side of the puddle would LOVE to see the new, and improving "buff" men of Cebu!
lets just say its a good thing the guard is smiling... ;)
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