This happened waaaay back in 1995 or so. During that time, the country was being run by President Ramos. Now his wife, First Lady Ming Ramos, was a frequent visitor in our shop during those days.
So one day she walks into the shop with her retinue of secret service agents and support staff while we were working on a show. Since we couldn't attend to her immediately she decided to amuse herself with some of the jewelry displayed in our shop. Whilst this was happening, my nephew (he was around 5 or 6 years old at the time) walks in and bumps into Mrs. Ramos. So my mom comes over and introduces them: "Enzo, I'd like you to meet the First Lady of the Philippines... Mrs. Ramos."
My nephew looks her up and down... sizes her up... then shouts:
"TABA MO!"
And runs off.
There was a hushed silence... then suddenly everyone was a flurry of activity to hide the fact that we all heard it. Agents were whispering in their earpieces... I decided to answer the phones even tho none were ringing... and my mom was frantically pinning clothes onto mannequins for a bit.
Aaaah... youth is wasted on the young.
