Why do people look at me when i speak english in the jeep?

[SioDenz]

basin wa kay angay.

[mokiloo]

Its freaking me out!

I guess they're just as freaked out as you are. hehe

If there's really a call for your speaking in English or it's your only means or medium of communication
Then you're gonna have to live with those friggin stares.

Remember when you're in a third world country yet with a strong and heavy western influence, let alone in a jeepney, and speaking in english inside the very traditional means and one of the cheapest mode of transportation,
you are more likely to involve yourself in a cultural collision course.

In my opinion, most people of our culture is one of the most paranoid and xenophobic
They are most likely to see you as a showoff--that if you're evidently a native filipino speaker
just trying to sound fancy in a place where english is least likely to be heard.

Or worst...if you're english is nothing less of like a newly hired callcenter agent trying to sound newyorker and ended up sounding like a drunk blonde boarder of the west coast with a slight accent from cebu-south...then
you just made yourself the star of a mobile jeepney stand-up comedy.
Remember we're critics too as well as being paranoid

[askal]

Totyal goro ka.....^_~ PEace!

[mokiloo]

basta naa ko kasakay dugay2x na going to IT park from AYALA
tuktuk sa ceiling sa jeep gesturing to the konduktor..."dude..dude..how much is it to IT Park...just got in from AYALA?"
"uuhmm....singko ra sir" tubag pud tawn konduktor
Then after pag naog sa "Cool dude" ingon dayon kundoktor.."dugay na man to sige sakay ui wa gyud kabalo pila ang plete"

saun nalang gyud heheh

[FukenGruven]

kay banga man sila..di sila kahibaw...LOL

[neajean]

shock konti lang ang English speaking

[ulyssa_marie]

Who the heck speaks english in the jeep anyway? unless you're aiming to invite a snatcher xD

ur using public transportation, so no one speaks english unless it's those carolers or conductors going "it's okay, move move! Sharing is caring diba?"

[azzkicker]

mga chinese / koreans cguro imung kasakay.......

[mokiloo]

TS
here are the two of the most common reactions in the people's minds

Given your non-caucassian or puti otherwise they would just stare at you for being white:
"whoa fil-am nisakay ug jeep"

or

"ngee!!! nag english2x bisan gahi kaayo and dili fluent...trying hard to be cool and western"

Now TS
please do tell us
asa ka na belong sa duha?
hehehe

[Carte Blanche]

I remember when we speak "chong chu sa we dah i ooo" in Ayala. Pretending to be Chinese to confuse salesgirls.