Jeepney Chronicles My boyfriend and I were riding a public jeepney. He was holding a grocery bag full of stuff — noodles, sardines, veggies… and two packs of napkin. Suddenly, the driver hit the brakes. Boom! The grocery bag fell, and everything rolled across the floor — including the napkins, which landed right in the middle like a drama queen. My boyfriend scrambled to pick things up. I tried not to laugh… but when he grabbed the napkins and said seriously, “This is important. We can’t lose this.” I LOST IT. Everyone in the jeepney laughed. Even the driver was grinning in the mirror. That day, the real star of our grocery trip wasn’t the food — it was the napkins.