Spending class

There are workers and there are savers, just as there are spenders. Without spenders, how would the economy function?

- JULLIE Y. DAZA

We were at the mall last Sunday and I told my companions, “BBM should visit any of our malls one of these days and see how shoppers and consumers, the small ones, are keeping the retail industry, ergo the economy, alive and kicking.”

How was I to know that on that same day, June 1 — probably at that very hour — he would be on board an MRT shaking hands with fellow passengers? Where was the train bound for? Was BBM on his way to a mall? The caption under the picture did not say. (Also in the photo was Press Secretary Jay Ruiz.)